Lemmy Scraper: export posts and comments from any Fediverse community (opens in new tab)

Quick answer: A Lemmy scraper calls the public /api/v3/ REST API that every Lemmy instance exposes by design and returns posts (and optionally comments) as flat JSON rows. The Apify Actor below handles cursor pagination, exponential backoff on rate limits, browser fingerprint rotation, and denormalised output — one row per post or comment, community metadata included. Cost: $0.002 per post row, $0.001 per comment row, $0.05 per run start (~$2.05 per 1,000 posts). When Reddit tightened its API...