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Reddit Bulk Comment/Post Deletion and Encryption Tool

  • This script allows you to Mass-Delete or Encrypt your old Reddit posts or comments.
  • It Encrypts your posts or comments using SHA-256 encryption algorithm before deletion to prevent Reddit from restoring your posts or comments after your account is deleted.
  • You also have an option to only Encrypt your content and not Delete it. This can be useful in a case, where you want to render your content unreadable (For e.g. in protest of the Reddit API changes.).
  • Additionally it also creates a local backup of your content in a mardown format file.
  • It uses the PRAW (Python Reddit API Wrapper) library to access the Reddit API and delete posts and comments based on a particular sub-reddit you posted to, or on a given time threshold.

Usage

  1. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/karan51ngh/RedditRefresh.git
  2. Install the required packages: pip install -r requirements.txt
  3. Go to https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps and create a new "script" type application. You can name it whatever you like and set the description and about url to anything you want. You can add http://localhost:8080/ as the redirect uri.
  4. Open authentication.py in a text editor and edit the follwing information:
CLIENT_ID = "<your_client_id>"
CLIENT_SECRET = "<your_client_secret>"
PASSWORD = "<your_account_password>"
USER_AGENT = "<your script's name (by u/your_username)>"
USERNAME = "<your_username>"

For Help with the above step refer this image.

  1. Run the script:
cd RedditRefresh
python main.py
  1. It creates a file called LOGS.md that saves all your comments and posts before deletion.

Options

  • You have 2 modes in which the above script will operate.
    • DELETE mode (this option will first ENCRYPT your content and then DELETE it)
    • ENCRYPT mode (this option will only ENCRYPT your content)
  • Currently you get 6 options on how to proceede with the Encryption/Deletion of your Posts/Comments:
    1. Delete/Encrypt all your Comments from a particular Subreddit.
    2. Delete/Encrypt all your Posts from a particular Subreddit.
    3. Delete/Encrypt all your Comments before a particular Date.
    4. Delete/Encrypt all your Posts before a particular Date.
    5. Delete/Encrypt all your Comments after a particular Date.
    6. Delete/Encrypt all your Posts after a particular Date.

Acknowledgments

This script is a fork of JosemyDuarte's reddit-cleaner.