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about Shreddit) but this will increase how long it takes the script to run as it will be going over all of your messages
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every run.
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## User Login deprecation
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## Important New Changes (as of Dec 2016)
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Reddit intends to disable username-password based authentication to access its APIs in the near future. You can specify
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your username and password in the `shreddit.yml` or the `praw.ini` to make it work **FOR NOW**. But consider looking at
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the [OAuth2 instructions](#oauth2-instructions) if you intend to use this program in the future.
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Due to deprecation of the PRAW 3.x library, Shreddit is using PRAW 4. This requires that OAuth be used to authenticate.
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Thankfully, however, it is much easier than in previous versions. If you are upgrading, [please review the usage section
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to ensure that you have set up credentials correctly.](#configuring-credentials)
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## Pip Installation
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## Usage
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After installing the `shreddit` command line utility, the first step is setting up the tool's configuration file. Simply
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typing `shreddit` will print a message with an example config. Copy the message from `---` onwards and save it as
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`shreddit.yml`. Now, the tool may be used by simply typing `shreddit` from this directory. Alternatively, if you named
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the configuration file something different such as `config.yml`, you may use it with `shreddit -c config.yml`.
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After installing the `shreddit` command line utility, the first step is setting up the tool's configuration files.
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Simply typing `shreddit -g` will generate configs. After configuring credentials, running the tool with the `shreddit`
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command will begin the tool's operation.
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### Configuring Credentials
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Running `shreddit -g` will generate a blank praw.ini file that looks like this:
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```
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# Credentials go here. Fill out default, or provide one or more names and call shreddit with the -u option to specify
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# which set to use.
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[default]
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client_id=
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client_secret=
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username=
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password=
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```
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Username and password are simply your Reddit login credentials for the account that will be used. However, to obtain the
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client ID and secret, follow these steps (taken from
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[PRAW documentation](http://praw.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started/authentication.html#script-application):
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1. Open your Reddit application preferences by clicking [here](https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps/)
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2. Add a new application. It doesn't matter what it's named, but calling it "shreddit" makes it easier to remember
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3. Select "script"
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4. Redirect URL does not matter, so enter something like http://127.0.0.1:8080
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5. Once created, you should see the name of your application followed by 14 character string. Enter this 14 character
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string as your `client_id`.
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6. Copy the 27 character "secret" string into the `client_secret` field.
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Finally, your praw.ini should look like this (with fake data provided here):
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```
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[default]
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client_id=f3FaKeD4t40PsJ
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client_secret=dfK3pfMoReFAkEDaTa123456789
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username=testuser
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password=123passwordgoeshere123
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```
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Keep your praw.ini either in the current directory when running `shreddit`, or in one of the config folders
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[described here](http://praw.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started/configuration/prawini.html) such as
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`~/.config` in Linux or `%APPDATA%` in Windows.
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To use more than one account, you can add multiple profiles instead of just `[default]` and use the `-u` option to
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`shreddit` to choose which one each time.
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### Automating
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@ -43,6 +85,9 @@ user's crontab settings.
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**Examples:**
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The following examples require that the PRAW configuration file is located in the config directory. See [this PRAW
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documentation](http://praw.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started/configuration/prawini.html) for more information.
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- Run every hour on the hour
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`0 * * * * shreddit -c <full path to shreddit.yml>`
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```
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$ shreddit --help
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usage: shreddit [-h] [-c CONFIG] [-p PRAW] [-t]
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usage: app.py [-h] [-c CONFIG] [-g] [-u USER]
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Command-line frontend to the shreddit library.
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-h, --help show this help message and exit
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-c CONFIG, --config CONFIG
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Config file to use instead of the default shreddit.yml
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-p PRAW, --praw PRAW PRAW config (if not ./praw.ini)
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-t, --test-oauth Perform OAuth test and exit
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-g, --generate-configs
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Write shreddit and praw config files to current
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directory.
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-u USER, --user USER User section from praw.ini if not default
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```
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## For Windows users
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3. Open a new command prompt and verify that the `shreddit` command works before moving on to the [usage](#usage)
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section.
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## OAuth2 Instructions
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1. Visit: https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps
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2. Click on 'Create app'.
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- Fill in the name and select the 'script' option
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- Under "redirect uri" put http://127.0.0.1:65010
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3. Copy from or rename `praw.ini.example` to `praw.ini` and open it. Enter the values from the Reddit page.
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- oauth\_client\_id = { The ID displayed next to the icon thingy (under
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"personal use script") }
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- oauth\_client\_secret = { The secret }
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- oauth\_redirect\_uri = http://127.0.0.1:65010
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- Save the file.
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4. Run `python get_secret.py` in the command prompt.
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5. Your browser will open to a page on Reddit listing requested permissions.
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6. Click 'Allow'.
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## Caveats
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- Certain limitations in the Reddit API and the PRAW library make it difficult to delete more than 1,000 comments.
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@ -105,3 +135,4 @@ optional arguments:
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- We are relying on Reddit admin words that they do not store edits, deleted posts are still stored in the database
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they are merely inaccessible to the public.
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