Restructuring a little.

README.rst

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ obscure the author (replaces with [deleted]) which is not good enough for some p
 
 Usage
 -----------
-python2 shreddit.py UserName
+./shreddit UserName
 
 Caveats
 -----------

grab.py

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 import sys
 from json import loads, dumps
-from urllib2 import urlopen
+from urllib2 import urlopen, HTTPError
 from time import sleep
 
 if len(sys.argv) != 2:
@@ -16,12 +16,18 @@ after = ''
 init_url = 'http://www.reddit.com/user/{user}/comments/.json?after=%s'.format(user=user)
 next_url = init_url % after
 
-http = urlopen(next_url).read()
+try:
-json = loads(http)
+    http = urlopen(next_url).read()
+except HTTPError:
+    raise HTTPError("You seem to have given an invalid user")
+
+try:
+    json = loads(http)
+except ValueError:
+    raise ValueError("Failed to decode json.")
 
 datum = []
 while True:
-    print "Grabing IDs for after: ", after
     after = json['data']['after']
     children = json['data']['children']
 
@@ -37,9 +43,7 @@ while True:
     next_url = init_url % after
     http = urlopen(next_url).read()
     json = loads(http)
-    sleep(2) # don't want to hammer reddit to hard
+    sleep(1) # don't want to hammer reddit to hard
-
-print "Script collected all available data."
 
 f = open('data.json', 'w')
 f.write(dumps(datum))

shreddit

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+USER=$1
+
+if [ $2 ]; then
+	DAYS=$2
+else
+	DAYS=7
+fi
+
+echo "Deleting everything before $DAYS days ago for user $USER"
+
+echo "Running grab.py to get your history..."
+python2 grab.py $USER || exit 1
+
+echo "Running kill.py to annihilate your history..."
+python2 kill.py $DAYS || exit 1
+
+echo "Everything seemed to run successfully."