Reddit-History — A reddit account history exporter

Reddit-History is a reddit history account exporter. It exports your comments, saved threads, submitted posts, and account overview to an organized markdown file, of the format:

subreddit: [worldnews](https://reddit.com/r/worldnews)

[Post/Comment/Saved title](https://reddit.com/r/worldnews/... the reddit link)

Score: 8423

The body of my post, comment, or saved item.
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subreddit: [AskReddit](https://reddit.com/r/AskReddit)
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Installation

Requirements

Java 8

Setup a reddit script client

This is required to make API calls to reddit at the rate of at least 1 per second.

Go here
Click create another app
Click personal use script
Copy down the client_id, and client_secret for later use.

Download

Download reddit-history.jar

Run

java -jar reddit-history.jar \
  -user USER_NAME_TO_EXPORT \
  -username YOUR_USERNAME \
  -password YOUR_PASSWORD \
  -client_id CLIENT_ID \
  -client_secret CLIENT_SECRET \
  -sort top

sort can be top, or new.

Limitations

Unfortunately, reddit doesn't allow a full account export, and only lets you retrieve a limit of 1000 records per type(submitted, comments, saved, overview). You can run reddit history using -sort new and -sort top, to get different slices of your history that reddit will allow.

Bugs and feature requests

Have a bug or a feature request? If your issue isn't already listed, then open a new issue here.

dessalines/reddit-history