Export Saved Reddit Posts
Exports saved and/or upvoted Reddit posts into a HTML file that is ready to be imported into Google Chrome. Sorts items into folders by subreddit.
Requirements
- Python 3.x
- pip
- git (recommended)
Installation
First, make sure you have Python 3.x, pip, and git installed on your machine.
Run the following in your command prompt to install:
git clone https://github.com/csu/export-saved-reddit.git
cd export-saved-reddit
pip install -r requirements.txt
To install without git, download the source code from GitHub, extract the archive, and follow the steps above beginning from the second line.
Usage
-
Make a new Reddit app to get a
client id
and aclient secret
.- Scroll to the bottom of the page and click "create app"
- You can name the app anything (e.g. "export-saved"). Select the "script" option. Put anything for the redirect URI (e.g. https://christopher.su).
- After creating the app, the client id will appear under the app name while the client secret will be labeled "secret".
-
In the
export-saved-reddit
folder, rename theAccountDetails.py.example
file toAccountDetails.py
. -
Open the
AccountDetails.py
in a text editor and enter your Reddit username, password, client id, client secret within the corresponding quotation marks. Save and close the file. -
Back in your shell, run
python export_saved.py
in theexport-saved-reddit
folder. This will run the export, which will createchrome-bookmarks.html
andexport-saved.csv
files containing your data in the same folder.
Additional Options
usage: export_saved.py [-h] [-u USERNAME] [-p PASSWORD] [-id CLIENT_ID]
[-s CLIENT_SECRET] [-v] [-up] [-all]
Exports saved Reddit posts into a HTML file that is ready to be imported into
Google Chrome or Firefox
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-u USERNAME, --username USERNAME
pass in username as argument
-p PASSWORD, --password PASSWORD
pass in password as argument
-id CLIENT_ID, --client-id CLIENT_ID
pass in client id as argument
-s CLIENT_SECRET, --client-secret CLIENT_SECRET
pass in client secret as argument
-v, --verbose increase output verbosity
-up, --upvoted get upvoted posts instead of saved posts
-all, --all get upvoted, saved, comments and submissions
Updating
To update the script to the latest version, enter the export-saved-reddit
folder in your shell/command prompt and enter the following:
git pull
Help
If you have any questions or comments, please open an issue on GitHub.
Contributing
If you would like to contribute, check out the project's open issues. Pull requests are welcome.