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I made a tool that transfers your reddit subscriptions to lemmy

GitHub - induna-crewneck/Reddit-Lemmy-Migrator: Python script to transfer subreddit subscriptions to Lemmy

https://github.com/induna-crewneck/Reddit-Lemmy-Migrator/

Python script to transfer subreddit subscriptions to Lemmy - GitHub - induna-crewneck/Reddit-Lemmy-Migrator: Python script to transfer subreddit subscriptions to Lemmy

One thing that annoyed me about moving to Lemmy was that I'd lose my subreddits and that looking for and joining communities on Lemmy would be tedious. So (logically) I spent 2 days writing a script, that gets a list of your subreddits from your reddit account and looks for communities with the same name on Lemmy. It also joins those communites. So all you have to do is download, enter your credentials and you're done.

https://github.com/induna-crewneck/Reddit-Lemmy-Migrator/

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defensor_fortis

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First off, thank you for your work on this!

So I'm trying this out in WSL2 and I managed to get the script to run... but I have TOTP enabled on my reddit account. Any chance this could support MFA? I'm using the correct username and password I get "Incorrect username or password" so I'm sure it's the TOTP requirement not being met.

induna_crewneck

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Yeah, totp isn't supported. Two workarounds, both of which include some work on your side:

bypass reddit usage by the sxriot:

copy the link to your multireddit from old.reddit/subreddits. Now you have all your subreddits.
Paste them into a text editor
delete everything up until and including /r/, do search and replace replacing + with ',' (including the apostrophes).
At the beginning, add [' and at the end add ']. You should now have [] brackets and within all your subreddits in apostrophes and separated by a comma.
Copy all that and paste it in the script in line 267 so it reads :

subs = ['subreddit1','subreddit2',etc]

Comment out lines 252-256 by adding # to the beginning of the line.
Run the script and it should work.

use totp/mfa:

enable change DEBUG=0 to DEBUG=1 at the top of the script.
comment out lines 90-93 and 255 by adding # to the beginning of the line
in line 94 change "time.sleep(3)" to "time.sleep(60)"
run the script. Now you should see a chrome window open and do stuff. Once you get to the reddit page, login how you normally would and wait. You have 60 seconds to do this and from there on the script should run normally.

Let me know if you have questions or issues

defensor_fortis

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Thank you again for going to the trouble of making this workaround.

I went with Option 1 and I got an error "Error joining Lemmy communities." So I ran the script with the DEBUG option and I saw that after a few (can't remember how many) searches the site started responding with a rate limit error for the rest of the searches.

induna_crewneck

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That's odd. Haven't gotten a rate limit error from lemmy before.