Reddsaver

• Command line tool to download saved/upvoted media from Reddit
• Supports:
  • Reddit: PNG/JPG images, GIFs, Image galleries, videos
  • Giphy: GIFs
  • Imgur: Direct images and GIFVs
  • Gfycat/Redgifs: GIFs
• GIF/GIFV from Imgur/Gfycat/Redgifs are downloaded as mp4
• Does not support downloading images from Imgur post links

Installation

Prerequisites

To download videos hosted by Reddit, you need to have ffmpeg installed. Follow this link for installation instructions.

Recommended method

You can download release binaries here

Alternative methods

Using MacPorts

If you are a macports user on macOS, you can install reddsaver using port:

sudo port selfudpate sudo port install reddsaver

Using Homebrew

If you are a homebrew user on macOS, you can install using brew tap:

shell brew tap manojkarthick/reddsaver brew install reddsaver

Arch Linux

If you are an ArchLinux user, then you can use a tool like yay or paru to install it from the AUR: shell script yay -S reddsaver

Using cargo

If you already have Rust installed, you can also install using cargo: shell script cargo install reddsaver

Using nix

If you are a nix user, you can install reddsaver from nixpkgs shell script nix-env --install reddsaver

or, if you manage your installation using home-manager, add to your home.packages: shell script home.packages = [ pkgs.reddsaver ];

Building and running from source

Make sure you have rustc v1.50.0 and cargo installed on your machine. shell script git clone https://github.com/manojkarthick/reddsaver.git cargo build --release ./target/release/reddsaver

Docker support

Pre-built docker images are available on Docker Hub

shell script mkdir -pv data/ docker run --rm \ --volume="$PWD/data:/app/data" \ --volume="$PWD/reddsaver.env:/app/reddsaver.env" \ manojkarthick/reddsaver:latest -d /app/data -e /app/reddsaver.env

Running

1. Create a new script application at https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps
   • Click on create an app at the bottom of the page
   • Input a name for your application, for example: -reddsaver
   • Choose "script" as the type of application
   • Set "http://localhost:8080" or any other URL for the redirect url
   • Click on "create app" - you should now see the application has been created
   • Under your application name, you should see a random string - that is your client ID
   • The random string next to the field "secret" is your client secret
2. Copy the client ID and client secret information returned

3. Create a .env file with the following keys, for example reddsaver.env:
   shell script CLIENT_ID="<client_id>" CLIENT_SECRET="<client_secret>" USERNAME="<username>" PASSWORD="<password>" NOTE: If you have 2FA enabled, please make sure you set PASSWORD=<password>:<2FA_TOTP_token> instead

4. Run the app! ```shell script

Create a directory to save your images to

mkdir -pv reddsaver/

Check if you installation is working properly

reddsaver --help

Check if the right configuration has been picked up

NOTE: In case the USERNAME variable is being overriden by

your system username, please use

On Linux/Mac - unset USERNAME

On Windows - set USERNAME=

before running to temporarily remove the system username

from your environment

reddsaver -e reddsaver.env -d reddsaver --show-config

Run the app to download the saved media

reddsaver -e reddsaver.env -d reddsaver

Also allows you to download upvoted media

reddsaver -e reddsaver.env -d reddsaver --upvoted ```

NOTE: When running the application beyond the first time, if you use the directory as the initial run, the application will skip downloading the images that have already been downloaded.

View it in action here:

Description and command line arguments

Optionally override the values for the directory to save and the env file to read from:

```shell script ReddSaver 0.4.0 Manoj Karthick Selva Kumar Simple CLI tool to download saved media from Reddit

USAGE: reddsaver [FLAGS] [OPTIONS]

FLAGS: -r, --dry-run Dry run and print the URLs of saved media to download -h, --help Prints help information -H, --human-readable Use human readable names for files -s, --show-config Show the current config being used -U, --undo Unsave or remote upvote for post after processing -u, --upvoted Download media from upvoted posts -V, --version Prints version information

OPTIONS: -d, --data-dir Directory to save the media to [default: data] -e, --from-env Set a custom .env style file with secrets [default: .env] -S, --subreddits ... Download media from these subreddits only ```

Some points to note:

• By default, reddsaver generates filenames for the images using a MD5 Hash of the URLs. You can instead generate human readable names using the --human-readable flag.
• You can check the configuration used by ReddSaver by using the --show-config flag.

Other Information

Building for Raspberry Pi Zero W

To cross-compile for raspberry pi, this project uses rust-cross. Make sure you have docker installed on your development machine.

1. Build the docker image for rust-cross: docker build -t rust-rpi-zerow:v1-openssl -f Dockerfile.raspberrypizerow .
2. Make sure that the image name used here matches the image name in your Cross.toml configuration
3. Run cross build --target arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi --release to build the project
4. You can find the compiled binary under target/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi/release/