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ostrolucky / Simple-Subreddit-Image-Downloader

Bash script for downloading images posted in specific subreddit with minimal footprint
GNU General Public License v2.0
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[Question] Help downloading only new posts #10

Closed ghost closed 3 years ago

ghost commented 3 years ago

Hi, first off, thank you for your work. Neat, simple and does the job.

Having a problem figuring out how to download only new posts.

I run the script once in 12 hours, I guess I could run it once in 24 hours as well.

However, based on options below, I get a lot of downloads, I'm guessing because I'm not signed in obviously, so the script does not understand what is new for me :/ ./download-subreddit-images.sh <subreddit_name> new day

below works fine but does not serve the purpose :( ./download-subreddit-images.sh <subreddit_name> top day

./download-subreddit-images.sh <subreddit_name>
./download-subreddit-images.sh <subreddit_name> <hot|new|rising|top>
./download-subreddit-images.sh <subreddit_name> top <all|year|month|week|day>

My use case is I have a server doing a bunch of other stuff.

I would like to run this script once every 12 hours and not get repeat images. The script does overwrite images, which is good, but I am iterating through an image folder(hard-coded one folder for all sub-reddits) and I send these images once downloaded via signal-cil to my phone.

I'd ideally like only new images posted in a day to show up, would appreciate it if you could let me know if that were possible, thanks

ostrolucky commented 3 years ago

This is not possible at the moment, no sorry. If someone would like to contribute this and it would be sufficiently simple, I would be open to merge it, though.