Awesome

saveddit is a bulk media downloader for reddit

pip3 install saveddit

Setting up authorization

Register an application with Reddit
- Write down your client ID and secret from the app
- More about Reddit API access here
- Wiki page about Reddit OAuth2 applications here

These registrations will authorize you to use the Reddit and Imgur APIs to download publicly available information.

User configuration

The first time you run saveddit, you will see something like this:

foo@bar:~$ saveddit
Retrieving configuration from ~/.saveddit/user_config.yaml file
No configuration file found.
Creating one. Would you like to edit it now?
> Choose Y for yes and N for no

Once you choose 'yes', the program will request you to enter these credentials:

Your imgur client ID
Your reddit client ID
Your reddit client secret
Your reddit username

In case you choose 'no', the program will create a file which you can edit later, this is how to edit it:

Open the generated ~/.saveddit/user_config.yaml
Update the client IDs and secrets from the previous step
If you plan on using the user API, add your reddit username as well

imgur_client_id: '<YOUR_IMGUR_CLIENT_ID>'
reddit_client_id: '<YOUR_REDDIT_CLIENT_ID>'
reddit_client_secret: '<YOUR_REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET>'
reddit_username: '<YOUR_REDDIT_USERNAME>'

Download from Subreddit

foo@bar:~$ saveddit subreddit -h
Retrieving configuration from /Users/pranav/.saveddit/user_config.yaml file

usage: saveddit subreddit [-h] [-f categories [categories ...]] [-l post_limit] [--skip-comments] [--skip-meta] [--skip-videos] -o output_path subreddits [subreddits ...]

positional arguments:
  subreddits            Names of subreddits to download, e.g., AskReddit

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -f categories [categories ...]
                        Categories of posts to download (default: ['hot', 'new', 'rising', 'controversial', 'top', 'gilded'])
  -l post_limit         Limit the number of submissions downloaded in each category (default: None, i.e., all submissions)
  --skip-comments       When true, saveddit will not save comments to a comments.json file
  --skip-meta           When true, saveddit will not save meta to a submission.json file on submissions
  --skip-videos         When true, saveddit will not download videos (e.g., gfycat, redgifs, youtube, v.redd.it links)
  --all-comments        When true, saveddit will download all the comments in a post instead of just downloading the top ones.)
  -o output_path        Directory where saveddit will save downloaded content

foo@bar:~$ saveddit subreddit pics -f hot -l 5 -o ~/Desktop

foo@bar:~$ tree -L 4 ~/Desktop/www.reddit.com
/Users/pranav/Desktop/www.reddit.com
└── r
    └── pics
        └── hot
            ├── 000_Prince_Philip_Duke_of_Edinburgh_...
            ├── 001_Day_10_of_Nobody_Noticing_the_Ap...
            ├── 002_First_edited_picture
            ├── 003_Reorganized_a_few_months_ago_and...
            └── 004_Van_Gogh_inspired_rainy_street_I...

You can download from multiple subreddits and use multiple filters:

foo@bar:~$ saveddit subreddit funny AskReddit -f hot top new rising -l 5 -o ~/Downloads/Reddit/.

The downloads from each subreddit to go to a separate folder like so:

foo@bar:~$ tree -L 3 ~/Downloads/Reddit/www.reddit.com
/Users/pranav/Downloads/Reddit/www.reddit.com
└── r
    ├── AskReddit
    │   ├── hot
    │   ├── new
    │   ├── rising
    │   └── top
    └── funny
        ├── hot
        ├── new
        ├── rising
        └── top

Download from anonymous Multireddit

To download from an anonymous multireddit, use the multireddit option and pass a number of subreddit names

foo@bar:~$ saveddit multireddit -h
usage: saveddit multireddit [-h] [-f categories [categories ...]] [-l post_limit] [--skip-comments] [--skip-meta] [--skip-videos] -o output_path subreddits [subreddits ...]

positional arguments:
  subreddits            Names of subreddits to download, e.g., aww, pics. The downloads will be stored in <OUTPUT_PATH>/www.reddit.com/m/aww+pics/.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -f categories [categories ...]
                        Categories of posts to download (default: ['hot', 'new', 'random_rising', 'rising', 'controversial', 'top', 'gilded'])
  -l post_limit         Limit the number of submissions downloaded in each category (default: None, i.e., all submissions)
  --skip-comments       When true, saveddit will not save comments to a comments.json file
  --skip-meta           When true, saveddit will not save meta to a submission.json file on submissions
  --skip-videos         When true, saveddit will not download videos (e.g., gfycat, redgifs, youtube, v.redd.it links)
  -o output_path        Directory where saveddit will save downloaded content

foo@bar:~$ saveddit multireddit EarthPorn NaturePics -f hot -l 5 -o ~/Desktop

Anonymous multireddits are saved in www.reddit.com/m/<Multireddit_names>/<category>/ like so:

tree -L 4 ~/Desktop/www.reddit.com
/Users/pranav/Desktop/www.reddit.com
└── m
    └── EarthPorn+NaturePics
        └── hot
            ├── 000_Banning_State_Park_Minnesota_OC_...
            ├── 001_Misty_forest_in_the_mountains_of...
            ├── 002_One_of_the_highlights_of_my_last...
            ├── 003__OC_Japan_Kyoto_Garden_of_the_Go...
            └── 004_Sunset_at_Mt_Rainier_National_Pa...

Download from User's page

foo@bar:~$ saveddit user -h
usage: saveddit user [-h] users [users ...] {saved,gilded,submitted,multireddits,upvoted,comments} ...

positional arguments:
  users                 Names of users to download, e.g., Poem_for_your_sprog
  {saved,gilded,submitted,multireddits,upvoted,comments}

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

Here's a usage example for downloading all comments made by Poem_for_your_sprog

foo@bar:~$ saveddit user "Poem_for_your_sprog" comments -s top -l 5 -o ~/Desktop

Here's another example for downloading kemitche's multireddits:

foo@bar:~$ saveddit user kemitche multireddits -n reddit -f hot -l 5 -o ~/Desktop

User-specific content is downloaded to www.reddit.com/u/<Username>/... like so:

foo@bar:~$ tree ~/Desktop/www.reddit.com
/Users/pranav/Desktop/www.reddit.com
└── u
    ├── Poem_for_your_sprog
    │   ├── comments
    │   │   └── top
    │   │       ├── 000_Comment_my_name_is_Cow_and_wen_its_ni....json
    │   │       ├── 001_Comment_It_stopped_at_six_and_life....json
    │   │       ├── 002_Comment__Perhaps_I_could_listen_to_podca....json
    │   │       ├── 003_Comment__I_don_t_have_regret_for_the_thi....json
    │   │       └── 004_Comment__So_throw_off_the_chains_of_oppr....json
    │   └── user.json
    └── kemitche
        ├── m
        │   └── reddit
        │       └── hot
        │           ├── 000_When_posting_to_my_u_channel_NSF...
        │           │   ├── comments.json
        │           │   └── submission.json
        │           ├── 001_How_to_remove_popular_near_you
        │           │   ├── comments.json
        │           │   └── submission.json
        │           ├── 002__IOS_2021_13_0_Reddit_is_just_su...
        │           │   ├── comments.json
        │           │   └── submission.json
        │           ├── 003_The_Approve_User_button_should_n...
        │           │   ├── comments.json
        │           │   └── submission.json
        │           └── 004_non_moderators_unable_to_view_su...
        │               ├── comments.json
        │               └── submission.json
        └── user.json

Search and Download

saveddit support searching subreddits and downloading search results

foo@bar:~$ saveddit search -h
usage: saveddit search [-h] -q query [-s sort] [-t time_filter] [--include-nsfw] [--skip-comments] [--skip-meta] [--skip-videos] -o output_path subreddits [subreddits ...]

positional arguments:
  subreddits       Names of subreddits to search, e.g., all, aww, pics

optional arguments:
  -h, --help       show this help message and exit
  -q query         Search query string
  -s sort          Sort to apply on search (default: relevance, choices: [relevance, hot, top, new, comments])
  -t time_filter   Time filter to apply on search (default: all, choices: [all, day, hour, month, week, year])
  --include-nsfw   When true, saveddit will include NSFW results in search
  --skip-comments  When true, saveddit will not save comments to a comments.json file
  --skip-meta      When true, saveddit will not save meta to a submission.json file on submissions
  --skip-videos    When true, saveddit will not download videos (e.g., gfycat, redgifs, youtube, v.redd.it links)
  -o output_path   Directory where saveddit will save downloaded content

e.g.,

foo@bar:~$ saveddit search soccer -q "Chelsea" -o ~/Desktop

The downloaded search results are stored in www.reddit.com/q/<search_query>/<subreddits>/<sort>/.

foo@bar:~$ tree -L 4 ~/Desktop/www.reddit.com/q
/Users/pranav/Desktop/www.reddit.com/q
└── Chelsea
    └── soccer
        └── relevance
            ├── 000__Official_Results_for_UEFA_Champ...
            ├── 001_Porto_0_1_Chelsea_Mason_Mount_32...
            ├── 002_Crystal_Palace_0_2_Chelsea_Chris...
            ├── 003_Post_Match_Thread_Chelsea_2_5_We...
            ├── 004_Match_Thread_Porto_vs_Chelsea_UE...
            ├── 005_Crystal_Palace_1_4_Chelsea_Chris...
            ├── 006_Porto_0_2_Chelsea_Ben_Chilwell_8...
            ├── 007_Post_Match_Thread_Porto_0_2_Chel...
            ├── 008_UCL_Quaterfinalists_are_Bayern_D...
            ├── 009__MD_Mino_Raiola_and_Haaland_s_fa...
            ├── 010_Chelsea_2_5_West_Brom_Callum_Rob...
            ├── 011_Chelsea_1_2_West_Brom_Matheus_Pe...
            ├── 012__Bild_Sport_via_Sport_Witness_Ch...
            ├── 013_Match_Thread_Chelsea_vs_West_Bro...
            ├── 014_Chelsea_1_3_West_Brom_Callum_Rob...
            ├── 015_Match_Thread_Chelsea_vs_Atletico...
            ├── 016_Stefan_Savi�\207_Atlético_Madrid_str...
            ├── 017_Chelsea_1_0_West_Brom_Christian_...
            └── 018_Alvaro_Morata_I_ve_never_had_dep...

Supported Links:

Direct links to images or videos, e.g., .png, .jpg, .mp4, .gif etc.
Reddit galleries reddit.com/gallery/...
Reddit videos v.redd.it/...
Gfycat links gfycat.com/...
Redgif links redgifs.com/...
Imgur images imgur.com/...
Imgur albums imgur.com/a/... and imgur.com/gallery/...
Youtube links youtube.com/... and yout.be/...
These sites supported by youtube-dl
Self posts
For all other cases, saveddit will simply fetch the HTML of the URL

Contributing

Contributions are welcome, have a look at the CONTRIBUTING.md document for more information.

License

The project is available under the MIT license.