Shreddit/shreddit

#!/usr/bin/env python2

import reddit
import ConfigParser
from datetime import datetime, timedelta

config = ConfigParser.RawConfigParser()
config.read('shreddit.cfg')

days = config.getint('main', 'days')
whitelist = config.get('main', 'whitelist')
sort = config.get('main', 'sort')
verbose = config.getboolean('main', 'verbose')
clear_vote = config.getboolean('main', 'clear_vote')
item = config.get('main', 'item')

r = reddit.Reddit(user_agent="Shreddit-PRAW")
# add user: <YourUsername> / pswd: <YourPassword> to the [reddit] config section
r.login()

if verbose:
    print "Logged in as %s" % r.user

before_time = datetime.now() - timedelta(days=days)

if verbose:
    print "Deleting messages before %s" % before_time

whitelist = [y.strip().lower() for y in whitelist.split(',')]

if verbose:
    print "Keeping messages from subreddits %s" % ', '.join(whitelist)

delete_whitelist = ('comments', 'submitted')
if item not in delete_whitelist:
	raise Exception("Your deletion section is wrong")

things = []
if item == "comments":
    things = r.user.get_comments(limit=None, sort=sort)
elif item == "submitted":
    things = r.user.get_submitted(limit=None, sort=sort)

for thing in things:
    if item == "submitted":
        if verbose:
            print thing
        thing.delete()
        continue
    if str(thing.subreddit).lower() in whitelist:
        continue
    now_time = datetime.fromtimestamp(thing.created)
    if now_time < before_time:
        if verbose:
            print 'Deleting: [%s]: "%s"' % (thing.subreddit, thing.body[:20])
        if clear_vote:
            thing.clear_vote()
        thing.delete()