Updating README with packaged version usage

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Shreddit
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YAML Upgrade
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**Note! Important! The latest version uses YAML format over the old
simpleconfigparser! This means you'll have to migrate your config file to
yaml!**
User Login deprecation
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Reddit intends to disable username-password based authentication to access its
APIs in the near future. You can specify your username and password in the
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Shreddit is a Python command line program which will take a user's post history
on the website [Reddit](http://reddit.com) and after having the user edit a
config file will systematically go through the user's history deleting one
post/submission at a time until only those whitelisted remain.
on the website [Reddit](http://reddit.com), and will systematically go through
the user's history deleting one post/submission at a time until only those
whitelisted remain.
**Note:** When it became known that post edits were *not* saved but post
deletions *were* saved, code was added to edit your post prior to deletion. In
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(or a message about Shreddit) but this will increase how long it takes the
script to run as it will be going over all of your messages every run!
Basically it lets you maintain your normal reddit account while having your
history scrubbed after a certain amount of time.
It allows you to maintain your normal reddit account while having your history
scrubbed after a certain amount of time.
Installation ([Click here for Windows instructions](#for-windows-users))
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The way I personally install Shreddit is via a handy tool called `virtualenv`
which may come with your package manager or may be a part of your Python package
in your distro (have a search if you can't find it). Both Python 2 and 3 are
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- Make sure you specify your username and password in the file.
- See the [OAuth2 instructions](#oauth2-instructions) if you don't want to
use username-password based authentication.
6. Run `python shreddit.py -c YOUR_CONFIG_FILE.yml`.
Alternatively try to run `./install.sh` and it will attempt to do it all for
you.
Notes:
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version 2).
- It's useful to have it run as an event, you can set this up as you like but I
suggest `cron` via `crontab -e` and adding a line such as
`@hourly cd $HOME/Shreddit && source bin/activate &&
python shreddit.py -c YOUR_CONFIG_FILE.cfg`.
See below for more.
`@hourly cd $HOME/Shreddit && source bin/activate && shreddit` See below for
more.
- Adding your password to the praw.ini and adding the additional output line
can provide extra debugging help.
Cron examples
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- Run crontab -e to edit your cron file. If you have access to something like
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- Run `crontab -e` to edit your cron file. If you have access to something like
vixie-cron then each user can have their own personal cron job!
- Run every hour on the hour
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For Windows users
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1. Make sure you have python installed.
1. Make sure you have Python installed.
[Click here for the Python download page](https://www.python.org/downloads/).
- **Note:** Install either `python 2.x` or `python 3.x`, not both.
2. Clone the repository (or download and extract the
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4. Type `pip install -r requirements.txt` in the open command prompt window to
download and install the required additional modules.
5. Open the `shreddit.yml.example` and edit it to your liking and rename the
file to `your-config-filename.yml`.
file to `shreddit.yml`.
- Make sure you specify your username and password in the file.
- See the [OAuth2 instructions](#oauth2-instructions) if you don't want to
use username-password based authentication.
6. Type `python shreddit.py -c your-config-filename.yml` in the open command
prompt window to run the program.
6. Type `shreddit` in the open command prompt window to run the program.
OAuth2 Instructions
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1. Visit: https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps
2. Click on 'Create app'.
- Fill in the name and select the 'script' option
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Caveats
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- Only your previous 1,000 comments are accessible on Reddit. So good luck
deleting the others. There may be ways to hack around this via iterating
using sorting by top/best/controversial/new but for now I am unsure. I
believe it best to set the script settings and run it as a cron job and then
it won't be a problem unless you post *a lot*. I do, however, think that it
may be a caching issue and perhaps after a certain time period your post
history would, once again, become available as a block of 1,000. So you
needn't despair yet!
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- Certain limitations in the Reddit API and the PRAW library make it difficult
to delete more than 1,000 comments. While deleting >1000 comments is planned,
it is necessary right now to rerun the program until they are all deleted.
- We are relying on Reddit admin words that they do not store edits, deleted
posts are still stored in the database they are merely inaccessible to the

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def main():
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Command-line frontend to the shreddit library.")
parser.add_argument("-c", "--config", help="Config file to use instead of the default shreddit.cfg")
parser.add_argument("-c", "--config", help="Config file to use instead of the default shreddit.yml")
parser.add_argument("-p", "--praw", help="PRAW config (if not ./praw.ini)")
parser.add_argument("-t", "--test-oauth", help="Perform OAuth test and exit", action="store_true")
args = parser.parse_args()

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