Creates a compendium of Reddit posts, useful for long, series length WritingPrompts. (Originally created for r/HFY)
- Required python modules, run
pip install -r requirements.txtorinstall.cmd/install.sh. - Reddit authentication: go to reddit apps and make your own. Put the key, secret and a user agent in config.env.
There are two ways to use BookOfReddit.
Manual
- Run
python bookofreddit.py(or whatever the filename is)
Command-line arguments
- Run
python bookofreddit.py (url) (file name without extension) [extension]
Options with (round brackets) are required while options with [square brackets] are optional
- Bulk writes reddit post selftexts to a compendium (reading from urls.md or urls.txt)
- NEW: Gives the option to download and extract URLs from Reddit posts! Extremely useful for wiki pages or index pages (example: this or this)
- Uses UTF-8 formatting (This file is recommended to all users)
- Downloads wikis and index pages from reddit into urls.md
- Required to download reddit wikis or index posts from the internet (doesn't use PRAW so it's standalone)
- Split into a different file to reduce code clutter (don't get used to it though)
BookOfReddit and all sub-programs are under the GNU GPLv3 license. You can do anything with them except commercialise or develop closed-source versions.
The files that BookOfReddit makes are consisting of Reddit posts. Please review the Reddit content policy for more information.