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I’ve created a quick script to copy your communities from one account to another. Useful when switching instances.

  • nieceandtowsEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Thanks for this. I need a tool to copy subscriptions over to a different account. Is there something like that?

    • MoreCoffee@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      8·
      2 years ago

      I’m not sure what you mean, that’s what this tool does. It will login to your main account, get a list of all your subscribed communities and subscribe to them on a new account on any instance that you specify.

      • nieceandtowsEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        doh, sorry I thought it copies contents of communities across. Thanks for this, much appreciated!

  • Fubarberry@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Thanks! I made a backup Lemmy account (for if my main instance went down or had other issues) so the idea of being able to easily move communities over is great.

    • subtext@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      This is exactly what I was hoping for! I’ve created a few subtext@‘s to try out the different servers and would love to be able to sync my subscriptions.

  • darmok@darmok.xyzEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    I was just thinking about doing something like to migrate some of my communities over (and was even planning on writing it in Python). Just ran it and it worked perfectly. Thank you, this saved me a bunch of time!

  • kratoz29English
    1·
    2 years ago

    I have two accounts in two different instances, in the past of the days I’ve added lots of communities in both of them, but both are very similar, will this script override one to another like copying files from one folder to another or how does this works exactly?

    My goal is to have them synced, so I’d copy from A) to B) and then B) to A) to have the same amount of communities, BTW, is there any way to know the exact number of how many communities I’m subscribed to?

  • colifloroBEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    I just tried and It works great! may I suggest to accept multiple destination accounts? perhaps with a config file, instead of a parameter? that way can be also possible to automate synchronizing the accounts that in multiple instances. Thanks for all the work.

    • MoreCoffee@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I’ll look into adding more options. I think I’m going to end up creating a full Lemmy API for python so that it can be used for a myriad of projects.