How to Download Your Reddit Data
www.wired.com
Reddit is about to shut off public API access, which means it’s about to get harder to use—and harder to get your data out. Here’s how to grab it now.

Reddit has a form where you can request a copy of your data. The process can take up to 30 days, after which you will get a private message on your Reddit account with a download link. The data comes in the form of CSV files that you can open using Microsoft Excel or any text editor.

If you’d rather not wait for Reddit to deliver your data, or would prefer to keep your data in a searchable archive, you can use Brownman’s tool, reddit-user-to-sqlite. This command line application can download the complete public archive of any Reddit user and compile it in an SQLite database file. Just keep in mind that this method will stop working on July 1, 2023, when the API change occurs (because you don’t actually own that content you created on Reddit?).

See https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-download-your-reddit-data/

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  • Saturnlks@lemm.ee
    1·
    2 years ago

    I had a 3 prong approach to getting my stuff.

    The python tool mentioned in the wired article, the reddit is fun newly added export feature, and redditmanager.com

    Between those 3, I was able to get my public stuff (comments and posts), my stared/saved stuff, and all my rif clicked links (quite shocking/surprising the amount of data, but not that large mb wise)

    I used my clicked links from the rif export to help build my RSS feed list

    1000 comments and a separate 1000 posts for the python tool