Includes pytest integration: https://github.com/adamchainz/time-machine#pytest-plugin
The installed packages themselves won't be faster, but they will install faster, sometimes much faster.
Yes, I believe wheels will generally be preferred by pip.
My latest is Fresh Off The Boat
Fixed! Looks like Lemmy changed how it represents search permalinks, switching from params being in the path to params being in the query.
The other thing to remember is that post IDs are relative to the Lemmy server you're working with. So post/12345 is almost surely not post/12345 on another server.
I mod a couple of communities on another server and this caught me off guard when trying to share what I thought were good URLs.
OP, you could even use a local file/sqlite database in the repo and just update and commit it when the script runs.
Simon Willison has a cool approach for this that runs in GitHub Actions and keeps the versioned state in git itself: https://simonwillison.net/2020/Oct/9/git-scraping/
Maybe just people frustrated with no games to watch?
I can handle the bot ... at some point in the near future. I'll have to some time Friday or Saturday. Will holler at you then.
Thanks for sharing this here! Far from an expert, but will happily take a look.