Reddit Bulk Comment/Post Deletion and Hashing Tool

• This script allows you to Mass-Delete or Cryptographically Hash (irreversibly encrypt) your old Reddit posts or comments.
• It Hashes (irreversibly encrypts) your posts or comments using SHA-256 hashing algorithm before deletion to prevent Reddit from restoring your posts or comments after your account is deleted.
• You also have an option to only Hash your content and not Delete it. This can be useful in a case, where you want to render your content unreadable (For e.g. in protest of the Reddit API changes.).
• Additionally it also creates a local backup of your content in a mardown format file.
• It uses the PRAW (Python Reddit API Wrapper) library to access the Reddit API and delete posts and comments based on a particular sub-reddit you posted to, or on a given time threshold.

Usage

1. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/karan51ngh/RedditRefresh.git
2. Install the required packages: pip install -r requirements.txt
3. Go to https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps and create a new "script" type application. You can name it whatever you like and set the description and about url to anything you want. You can add http://localhost:8080/ as the redirect uri.
4. Open authentication.py in a text editor and edit the following information:

CLIENT_ID = "<your_client_id>"
CLIENT_SECRET = "<your_client_secret>"
PASSWORD = "<your_account_password>"
USER_AGENT = "<your script's name (by u/your_username)>"
USERNAME = "<your_username>"

For Help with the above step refer this image.

5. Run the script:

cd RedditRefresh
python main.py

6. It creates a file called LOGS.md that saves all your comments and posts before deletion.

Options

• You have 2 modes in which the above script will operate.
  • DELETE mode (this option will first HASH your content and then DELETE it)
  • HASH mode (this option will only HASH your content)
• Currently you get 6 options on how to proceede with the Hashing/Deletion of your Posts/Comments:
  1. Delete/Hash all your Comments from a particular Subreddit.
  2. Delete/Hash all your Posts from a particular Subreddit.
  3. Delete/Hash all your Comments before a particular Date.
  4. Delete/Hash all your Posts before a particular Date.
  5. Delete/Hash all your Comments after a particular Date.
  6. Delete/Hash all your Posts after a particular Date.

Acknowledgments

This script is a fork of JosemyDuarte's reddit-cleaner.