RedditArchiver-standalone

RedditArchiver-standalone is the standalone version of RedditArchiver.

"Standalone" means that you do not need a web server: the function was reduced to a simple Python script.

For more information on RedditArchiver itself, see the main repository.

Installing dependencies and setting up tokens

(Replace python3 by py -3 if you are on Windows)

Install dependencies:

python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Edit the file config.yml to put all the informations needed to connect (client ID, client secret and refresh token).

If you have no clue about what these options are, follow these steps:

1. Go here and create an app
2. Use the "script" type, and put http://localhost:8080 as redirect URI (the other options do not matter)
3. Take note of your client ID and client secret
4. Run the script authentication.py to get your refresh token
5. Edit the config file to put the client ID, client secret and refresh token in it.

Running the script

You can select the submissions you want to download with several methods:

• -i: specify a submission ID or an URL to download it. -i can be written several times to download several submissions, like that:

python3 RedditArchiver.py \
    -i https://www.reddit.com/r/Superbowl/comments/14hczkk/elf_owl_enjoying_our_pond/ \
    -i https://www.reddit.com/r/Superbowl/comments/14gozc4/adult_and_hungry_juvenile_great_horned_owl_norcal/ \
    -i 14iard6

• -s: Download all the submissions you saved. If you want to include as well the submissions which you saved a comment from, pass -S instead.

• -u: Download all the submissions you upvoted.

• -a: Download all the submissions you posted. If you want to include as well the submissions which you posted a comment in, pass -A instead.
  You can also specify a name to download the submissions from another redditor. Here, you will download the submissions posted by you and by u/iamthatis:

python3 RedditArchiver.py -a -a iamthatis

You can combine these options to download a lot of things at once:

python3 RedditArchiver.py \
    -i https://www.reddit.com/r/Superbowl/comments/14hczkk/elf_owl_enjoying_our_pond/ \
    -i https://www.reddit.com/r/Superbowl/comments/14gozc4/adult_and_hungry_juvenile_great_horned_owl_norcal/ \
    -i 14iard6 \
    -s -u -A -l 10

RedditArchiver has more options to control its behavior (limit of submissions retrieved, config file...). To see more, display help with the -h option.

Licensing

This software is licensed with MIT license.