[FEATURE] download media based on a list of reddit posts provided

Serene-Arc / bulk-downloader-for-reddit

Downloads and archives content from reddit

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[FEATURE] download media based on a list of reddit posts provided #962

Closed Laures closed 3 months ago

Laures commented 3 months ago

[x] I am requesting a feature.
[x] I am running the latest version of BDfR
[x] I have read the Opening an issue

Description

I tried to find a way to download my upvotes from reddit beyond the last 1k. The api does not work for that (as stated in your documentation) BUT there is indeed a workaround:

Request all your data from reddit (for example under the GDPR). the post_votes.csv in the resulting archive contains all votes, whether they are up or downvotes, the post ID and a permalink.

I would like a way to use this data to download media from reddit.

Laures commented 3 months ago

Here is the format of the post_votes.csv

id,permalink,direction
1dzprjk,https://www.reddit.com/r/anime_titties/comments/1dzprjk/frances_new_leftwing_coalition_reveals_plans_to/,up
1dzs1ho,https://www.reddit.com/r/anime_titties/comments/1dzs1ho/zelenskyy_ukraine_needs_128_f16_jets_to_compete/,down

Serene-Arc commented 3 months ago

What you want to do is take all of those IDs and put them in a text file, then use --include-id-file to download them. Open the CSV in Excel and delete the other columns, then delete the first row with the header and it will do what you want.

Laures commented 3 months ago

i completely missed this feature. thanks.