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Lemmy Scraper: Posts, Comments & Communities

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Scrape Lemmy posts, comments and communities from any instance: titles, text, links, scores, authors, reply trees, federated links, subscriber and activity counts. Communities, posts, instance feeds and keyword search, no login. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel, or via API.

Pricing

from $0.30 / 1,000 posts

Rating

0.0

(0)

Developer

Steady Scrape

Actor stats

Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

4 days ago

Last modified

Categories

Social media

News

Lemmy links or handles

targets

Optional

One per line, from any Lemmy instance: a community link (https://lemmy.world/c/technology) or handle (technology@lemmy.world, !asklemmy@lemmy.ml), a community of another instance as one instance shows it (https://sh.itjust.works/c/technology@lemmy.world), a post link (https://lemmy.world/post/53761662), an instance for its front-page feed (lemmy.ml), or an instance's community list (https://lemmy.world/communities) for every community with its subscriber and activity counts.

Type:array

Search terms

searchTerms

Optional

Keywords to search with the instance's own search (one search per line): the posts it finds, and with Latest comments the comments it finds.

Type:array

Default:

[]

Instance to search

searchInstance

Optional

The instance whose search is used for the search terms, e.g. lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, sh.itjust.works.

Type:string

Default:lemmy.world

Scrape posts

includePosts

Optional

Deliver the posts of each community, feed, search and post link (priced as post). Turn off to get only comments.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Maximum posts per community, feed or search

maxPostsPerTarget

Optional

Stop each community, feed or search after this many posts. 0 means no maximum (up to 10,000).

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:100

Post sort

sort

Optional

Lemmy's own sorts. New suits monitoring; Top… sorts by score within a time window.

Type:string

Default:New

Options:

NewHotActiveScaledControversialOldMostCommentsNewCommentsTopHourTopSixHourTopTwelveHourTopDayTopWeekTopMonthTopThreeMonthsTopSixMonthsTopNineMonthsTopYearTopAll

Comments

comments

Optional

Latest comments: the newest comments of each community, feed or search across all its posts (50 per request, the fastest way to collect comments), and all comments of each post link. Comments of each post: the comment thread of every post scraped, one request or more per post, so on an instance that asks 60 seconds between requests 20 posts take about 20 minutes. Priced as comment.

Type:string

Default:none

Options:

nonelatestofEachPost

Maximum comments

maxComments

Optional

Latest comments: per community, feed or search. Comments of each post: per post. 0 means every comment.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:100

Comment sort (comments of a post)

commentSort

Optional

The order a post's comments are read in, which decides which ones a maximum keeps. Latest comments are always newest first.

Type:string

Default:Top

Options:

TopHotNewOldControversial

Listing

listingType

Optional

Local: what the instance itself hosts. All: everything it receives from the instances it federates with. Applies to instance feeds, searches and community lists; a community link always reads that community.

Type:string

Default:Local

Options:

LocalAll

Community list sort

communitySort

Optional

For community-list links. Top: all time lists the most subscribed first.

Type:string

Default:TopAll

Options:

TopAllTopMonthTopWeekHotActiveNewOldMostComments

Maximum communities per list

maxCommunities

Optional

Stop each community list after this many communities (priced as community). 0 means every community.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:100

Include NSFW

includeNsfw

Optional

Ask post lists and community lists for NSFW content too (instances that allow it).

Type:boolean

Default:false

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