redditsfinder 1.0.9

Archive a reddit user's post history. Formatted overview of a profile, JSON containing every post, and picture downloads.

redditsfinder

pip3 install redditsfinder
A command line program to easily download reddit users' post histories.
Get any reddit user's entire post history with one command while avoiding the reddit API's 1000 post limit.
The main meat of this program is making the requests to pushshift and manipulating pushshift's JSON for a more readable all_posts.json file.
There is also a handly image downloader I made that avoids a lot of the problems of trying to grab multiple images from different sites at once. Things like file types being not what the file is encoded as, and changed URLs. Or a URL that ends with .png that returns ASCII text. It gets imgur albums along with images, because at least for a while imgur was essentially reddit's non-official image hosting service.

The colored terminal features and markup are from https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich
pip3 install rich which is one the coolest python packages I've seen. It's very easy to pick up, but as is shown with the animated example in its README, still has a lot of depth.

https://github.com/LoLei/redditcleaner pip3 install redditcleaner was also a massive help for dealing with reddit's strange markup.
Comments and self-posts can be unreadable when put in another format like JSON if they have a fair amount of formatting.
To deal with it, I gave up and looked online for an alternative. Luckily there was a good one readily available.

Installation and a sample run

With pypi (easiest) pip3 install redditsfinder

With git

pip3 install redditcleaner rich
git clone https://github.com/Fitzy1293/redditsfinder.git
cd redditsfinder

Now test if it works.

python3 redditsfinder.py 'yourUsername'

That's all there is to setup.

Running redditsfinder

Arguments
redditsfinder 'username' returns every user post.
redditsfinder -pics 'username' returns URLs of user's image uploads.
redditsfinder -pics -d 'username' downloads them.

If you installed with pip

redditsfinder [options] 'username'

If you installed with git

In the directory where you installed redditsfinder.py
python3 redditsfinder.py [options] 'username'

If you made it executable
./redditsfinder.py [options] 'username'

Example JSON object

Example use of -pics -d