Subreddit image scraper made in Python
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gallery-dl is required to be installed locally and present on the user's system at runtime.
PRAW is also required for this script to run. To install it:
$ pip3 install praw
or alternatively, use pipenv.
Also, inside the praw.ini
file you need to modify the access lines (as described here).
You may also add other accounts by keeping the same structure and changing the line in the scraperr.py
file that matches the name of the code block (eg. reddit = praw.Reddit("scraperr")
)
[scraperr]
; this is your 14 character personal use script
client_id=
; this is your 27 character secret
client_secret=
; this is the name you gave your application
user_agent=
; this is username for the reddit account the app was created with
username=
; password for the account
password=
$ python3 scrapper.py -h
usage: scrapper.py [-h] [-l LIMIT] [-p PERIOD] [-d DIRECTORY] subreddit
positional arguments:
subreddit The subreddit from which you wish to download the
pictures
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-l LIMIT, --limit LIMIT
Limit the number of posts to download (default: 10)
-p PERIOD, --period PERIOD
The period from when to download the pictures
(default: day) -- options: day, month, year, all
-d DIRECTORY, --directory DIRECTORY
The directory for the pictures to be downloaded into
(default: reddit-wallpapers/)
👤 Lucian Vasile
- Github: @NotYourGuy
Contributions, issues and feature requests are welcome!
Feel free to check issues page.
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Copyright © 2021 Lucian Vasile.
This project is GNU General Public License v3.0 licensed.