rchive

A python script to archive your reddit saved/upvoted posts

Getting Started

git clone https://github.com/codsane/rchive.git

Config File

To be used with configparser. Defaults to config.ini

Example:

[rchive]
client_id = 
client_secret = 
username = 
password = 
user_agent = 

database =

For reddit credentials, see: PRAW Docs - Auth. - Password Flow.

For user agent, typically "/u/username's PRAW Client" is sufficient.

For database connection, see: dataset docs.

Usage

python rchive.py [OPTIONS]

option (short)	option (long)	description
-c	--config	Config file to be loaded (default: config.ini)
-v	--verbose	Set logging level to DEBUG
-e	--export	rchive by default only preserves self posts and comments. In order to archive full URLs and media, you can export the URLs from your rchive database and send them to something like ArchiveBox, Shaarli, etc.
-f	--format FORMAT	Format to export URLs to (formats: text/txt)
	--skip-archive	Skip archive (use with --export to export database without connecting to PRAW)
	--include-comment-urls	Also include URLs which have been regex'd out of comments (use with --export)
	--include-selftext-urls	Also include URLs which have been regex'd out of selftext posts (use with --export)
	--use-new-reddit	Use new reddit to generate permalinks