Someone had asked in the now locked thread how he did what he did in terms of collecting uploads. I will relay the method as was explained to me. I tried to replicate it but I don’t have the technical acumen to pull it off. Maybe someone else can pick up the torch.

me: i gotta ask where you’re getting all these premium feeds from still. you cant possibly subscribe to all these pods… can you?

podking: lol! i scrape reddit and twitter

me: automated or by hand?

podking: reddit I periodically check, twitter I use a site called phantombuster to export search results daily

podking: and a bunch of scripts to parse through all the tweets and find patreon urls

me: looking at the phantombuster thing now… i assume this function is what youre using? “Twitter Search Export Scrape and export the results of a Twitter search into a spreadsheet”

podking: yep

podking: never needed to pay for it, free 10 minutes per day has always been plenty

me: what are you putting into the search field for results?

podking: patreon.com/rss/

podking: redditsearch.io for reddit comments

me: so if i wanted to automate this for trillbillies i would put “redditsearch.io trillbilly worker’s party” or something like that?

podking: search string for that is www.patreon.com/rss/ auth

Maybe this will make sense to someone more than it did to me. I could do enough to set up the phantombuster to do scrapes but could never actually produce results. I also can’t format this post worth a fuck and I’m giving up trying.

Godspeed fellow pirates.