RedditImageBackup is a tool built to archive self-posts, images, gifs and videos from subreddit and users. This program works through the command line and uses Python 3.
Get your Reddit API credentials.
Install all the dependencies.
pip install -r requirements.txt
Add the API client ID and secret through the terminal as so, replace the string in quotes with your credentials:
python3 RedditGrabber.py --reddit_id "client_id_here" --reddit_secret "client_secret_here"
Or you can also enter the client id and and client secret int he config.json file in the resources folder.
To download from a single subreddit, in this case /r/diy
python3 RedditGrabber.py diy
You can also pass in a list of subreddits and users in the form of a txt file, with contains each subreddit on a newline.
python3 RedditGrabber.py subs.txt
This downloads the first 50 new submission from the user /u/spez and stores they by user then subreddit(i.e. spez/<subreddit>/<media>).
python3 RedditGrabber.py /u/spez --by_author --posts 50 --sort new
Below are all the optional arguments that you can use:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-w WAIT, --wait WAIT Change wait time between subreddits in seconds
-p POSTS, --posts POSTS Number of posts to grab on each cycle
-o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT Set base directory to start download
--by_author Sort downloads by author, default by subreddit
--sort SORT Sort submissions by 'hot', 'new' or 'top'
-v, --verbose Sets verbose
--blacklist BLACKLIST Avoid downloading a user, without /u/
--reddit_id REDDIT_ID Reddit client ID
--reddit_secret REDDIT_SECRET Reddit client secret