arkits/reddit-save-saver

A full-stack app to backup a user's reddit saved posts and display them

reddit-save-saver

About

This is a simple full-stack app to backup a user's reddit saved posts and display them.

If you've used reddit for a while, then you must've saved a-whole-lot of posts. Unfortunatly, a user can only save upto ~1000 posts, afterwhich old posts get popped out of this list of saved posts. This project is meant to work around that!

Notes

• The Python script in src/dump_saves does the majority of work by logging get all of the user's saved posts and then dumping them to a MongoDB collection. The Python script can be invoked by scripts/dump_saves.sh from a crontab.
• API - Coming Soon...
• Frontend - Eventually...

Setup

MongoDB Setup

• Grab a MongoDB instace. The free-tier from Atlas will suffice.
• In your MongoDB instance, create a database called reddit_save_saver.
• Collections are automatically created by dump_save.py. For each user, a collection is created.

Reddit API Setup

• Get Reddit API creds -

  • Go to https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps/
  • Click on create app and create a script type app. The URLs don't matter.
  • Note down the client_id and client_secret.

• Create a src/dump_saves/config.py based on src/dump_saves/config.py.sample