A script to copy posts from one subreddit to another.
Project description
subreddit-mirror
This is a simple script which will copy posts from one subreddit to another, ideally used for copying posts to a private subreddit for bot development purposes. It requires you to be a moderator of the subreddit you are copying posts to, and allows you to choose, along with the source/destination subreddit:
- The sort method of the posts chosen (hot, new, controversial, and top)
- The time frame to grab posts from (day, week, month, year, all)
- How many posts to grab
- Whether or not to include the comments from the post you mirrored (this functionality is very time consuming)
Why?
Whenever I create reddit bots, I would normally manually create posts that mimic the posts I would expect when using my bot. This becomes tedious, especially as the bot grows more dynamic over time. Instead, I figured I could write a script which would do this tedious work for me, and as an added bonus, the content would be real data from the subreddits I would be targeting.
Can't you use this for spam?
I suppose so, but you shouldn't. This script includes a simple check to make sure that you're a moderator of the subreddit your mirroring posts to. Although this is easy enough to remove, I figured that anyone who'd want to make a spam bot could and probably would have without much effort.
Installation
$ pip install subreddit-mirror
Alternatively, manually download and install the release file from the Github release page.
Usage
usage: subreddit-mirror [-h] [--count COUNT]
[--sort {hot,new,controversial,top}]
[--time {day,week,month,year,all}] [--comments] [-v]
subreddit destination
Mirror posts from another subreddit.
positional arguments:
subreddit subreddit to copy posts from
destination destination subreddit to post to
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--count COUNT how many posts to try to copy
--sort {hot,new,controversial,top}
how to sort posts
--time {day,week,month,year,all}
time frame to grab from
--comments [CAUTION] also mirror comments from threads, may take
a long time
-v, --version show program's version number and exit
Optional Parameter Defaults
Option | Default Parameter |
---|---|
--count |
15 |
--sort |
'new' |
--time |
'day' |
--comments |
False |
Examples
-
$ subreddit-mirror hiphopheads trapmuzik
Copies the newest 15 newest poststoday from /r/hiphopheads to /r/trapmuzik
-
$ subreddit-mirror calamariraceteam motorcycles --count 10 --sort top --time all
:Copies the top 10 posts of all time from /r/calamariraceteam to /r/motorcycles
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License
subreddit-mirror -- A script to copy posts from one subreddit to another.
Copyright (C) 2018 Jacob Patterson
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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