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Shreddit
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Donations
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- Bitcoin: `17X2MCBkJXNdsshubHVHwNdtbq17eD2kMg`
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- PayPal: napalm10 on the good old gmail
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Details
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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.
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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 fact you can actually turn off deletion all together and just have lorem ipsum (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!
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Basically it lets you maintain your normal reddit account while having your history scrubbed after a certain amount of time.
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Installation
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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 supported.
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1. Clone the repository
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2. Enter the repository's directory and run `virtualenv .` (this creates a virtual environment)
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3. Run the following command, you must run this *every time* you wish to run the script `source ./bin/activate`
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4. This installs the required modules locally to your Shreddit virtual environment `pip install -r requirements.txt`
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5. Copy `shreddit.cfg.example` to something else and edit it to your liking.
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6. Run `python shreddit.py -c YOUR_CONFIG_FILE.cfg`.
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Alternatively try to run `./install.sh` and it will attempt to do it all for you.
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Notes:
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- The script *does* work with Python versions 2 and 3 but people often get in a mess with pip versions, python versions and virtulenv versions. Make sure that your Python/pip/virtualenv are all the same version. If you ran the above code it *should* work as stated.
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- If in doubt try running `python3` instead of just `python` - the same goes for `pip3` and `virtualenv3` (exchange for 2 if you wish, though I advise using version 2).
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- 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 $HOME/Shreddit && source bin/activate && python shreddit.py -c YOUR_CONFIG_FILE.cfg`. See below for more.
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- Adding your password to the praw.ini and adding the additional output line can provide extra debugging help.
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Cron examples
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- Run crontab -e to edit your cron file. If you have access to something like vixie-cron then each user can have their own personal cron job!
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- Run every hour on the hour
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`0 * * * * cd /home/$USER/Shreddit/ && source bin/activate && ./shreddit.py`
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- Run at 3am every morning
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`0 3 * * * cd /home/$USER/Shreddit/ && source bin/activate && ./shreddit.py`
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- Run once a month on the 1st of the month
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`0 0 1 * * cd /home/$USER/Shreddit/ && source bin/activate && ./shreddit.py`
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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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- 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 public.
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