Export Saved Reddit Posts

Exports saved and/or upvoted Reddit posts into a HTML file that is ready to be imported into Google Chrome. Sorts items into folders by subreddit.

Requirements

• Python 3.x
• pip
• git (recommended)

Installation

First, make sure you have Python 3.x, pip, and git installed on your machine.

Run the following in your command prompt to install:

git clone https://github.com/csu/export-saved-reddit.git
cd export-saved-reddit
pip install -r requirements.txt

To install without git, download the source code from GitHub, extract the archive, and follow the steps above beginning from the second line.

Usage

1. make a new reddit app from https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps
2. In the export-saved-reddit folder, rename the AccountDetails.py.example file to AccountDetails.py.
3. Open the AccountDetails.py in a text editor and enter your Reddit username, password, client_id, client_secret within the corresponding quotation marks. Save and close the file.
4. Back in your shell, run python export-saved.py in the export-saved-reddit folder. This will run the export, which will create chrome-bookmarks.html and export-saved.csv files containing your data in the same folder.

Additional Options

usage: export-saved.py [-h] [-u USERNAME] [-p PASSWORD] [-v] [-up]

Exports saved Reddit posts into a HTML filethat is ready to be imported into
Google Chrome

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -u USERNAME, --username USERNAME
                        pass in username as argument
  -p PASSWORD, --password PASSWORD
                        pass in password as argument
  -id clientID,--client_id clientID
                        pass in clientID as argument
  -s clientsecret, --client_secret clientsecret
                        pass in client_secret as argument

                         
  -v, --verbose         increase output verbosity
  -up, --upvoted        get upvoted posts instead of saved posts

Updating

To update the script to the latest version, enter the export-saved-reddit folder in your shell/command prompt and enter the following:

git pull

Help

If you have any questions or comments, please open an issue on GitHub or contact me.