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MalloyDelacroix / DownloaderForReddit

The Downloader for Reddit is a GUI application with some advanced features to extract and download submitted content from reddit.
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Is there a headless command-line mode or any way to trigger DLs without clicking? #274

Closed sleaze closed 2 years ago

sleaze commented 2 years ago

Firstly: Thank you for making DownloaderForReddit - it's truly a fabulous project!

Is there a way to run DownloaderForReddit in a headless mode from the command-line? Ideally I'd like to be able to not have to click through the UI every time (e.g. schedule via cron somehow).

If this is not currently feasible (and there are no plans to support it), do you know of any way to trigger the download action for a either a single user / subreddit, or for all users / subreddits from the command-line without needing to click?

Would also be great if there was a way to suppress all pop-up dialogs, sometimes DL4R can go a little crazy when some accounts / subreddits get deleted or banned.

Thanks again!

Sincerely yours, Mr. S

zacker150 commented 2 years ago

There's currently no command line option for downloading individual lists, but you should be able to handle your use case by automatically launching DFR and using the scheduled downloads options.

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sleaze commented 2 years ago

Got it, thanks Zacker150!

sleaze commented 2 years ago

A CLI would be super awesome, but I understand it is probably non-trivial. I poked at it, and.. it seems like a bit of a tangle with everything being driven and scheduled by the UI.