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https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/506 . The devs are open to pull requests if you have the ability to make the change yourself and want it faster.
Additionally, it might be the sort of thing where someone could make a third party app to the hard parts for you.
Depending on how authentication works, it could be just a webapp, through which you login using your lemmy credentials, which then uses the API to collect all of your data and download it from your browser.
Why would you third party for an open source project? Just add your function directly in the source
If I make a fork with my own code, that is essentially a third party app.
All sorts of reasons. Maybe you're not up to the task of developing within the platform's codebase (language, tech stack, general complexity). Maybe you don't have the time but want to contribute some how.
Either way, if the API is there, it can't hurt to develop against it. Sure, adding to the codebase is better, but if you can get around constraints by building on your own, go for it I say.