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andrewbanchich / shreddit

Delete your Reddit data.
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[request] Only scramble words #71

Open sommerper opened 1 year ago

sommerper commented 1 year ago

Hi!

I thought maybe it would be an idea to only rearrange words and/or letters as to not attract attention by any automated processes by reddits back-end.

Would that require a lot of work?

Also, thanks for providing a great tool in these times :+1:

andrewbanchich commented 1 year ago

Hi, you're welcome 😁

That should be a fairly easy feature to add, and I'd be open to a PR for it. I haven't had a ton of free time lately though so not sure when I could get to it.

sommerper commented 1 year ago

I can understand that. I'll see what I can do once I've learned Rust 🙂

andrewbanchich commented 1 year ago

Rust is a lot easier than people make it out to be. If you're interested in giving it a shot, just install the compiler, pull the Shreddit project, try making some changes, and run cargo run.

All you'd need for this is to add a dependency for rand (a random number generator), then split the comment string by the space character, and re-sort the vector of words based on the random number. You can do that by calling the shuffle method here.

Then just add a --shuffle-replacement-comment option to the CLI (also pretty easy) and that's it!

sommerper commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the tips! I'll see what I can do 👍🏽