I'm a user that tends to delete my comments after a couple of days. When the initial engagement of a post dies down. I hopped between two accounts one day and when I logged back into my main I noticed comments from 10 years ago showing that never showed before.
Having looked around for something that was already built that could help me out. Found a lot of javascript and python repos but they were all just meh to me.
Eventually I found Shreddit and I couldn't make it work after 5 minutes. Took the functionality I wanted from shreddit and converted it to Go.
This is not a feature rich or feature complete tool. You can honestly think of it as a simple script to delete all your reddit posts. Putting it out there for those that might want to use.
You need to create an Oauth application for authentication.
- https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps Go there
- 'Create an app' and give it a name
- Select
script - callback url can be
http://localhost:8080 - Click
create app
A new page should load with the the secret and when you are looking at the application, just below the app name and 'personal use script' will be the client id
I got super lazy I know. I could have used a yaml or json config file, but environment variables are fine enough.
The REDDIT_USER_AGENT is required by reddit.
export REDDIT_USERNAME='USER_NAME'
export REDDIT_PASSWORD='USER_PASSWORD'
export REDDIT_CLIENT_ID='APP_CLIENT_ID'
export REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET='APP_SECRET'
export REDDIT_USER_AGENT='ShredditGoClient'
export REDDIT_YEARS_BACK='11'
export REDDIT_DRY_RUN="true" # Set to "false" for actual execution