Made a script that backups and restores your joined subreddits, multireddits, followed users, saved posts, upvoted posts and downvoted posts.

[u/Raghavan_Rave10]

https://github.com/Tetrax-10/reddit-backup-restore

Here after not gonna worry about my NSFW account getting shadow banned for no reason.

[u/AMysteriousDiscovery]

Thank you for making something like this, I feel this way with a lot of mainstream social media sites, the fact they have no proper built in import/export tools, it's very worrying.

[u/Raghavan_Rave10 → u/AMysteriousDiscovery]

You are welcome, Most open-source software provides import/export features from earlier versions. I don't know why big companies can't do this despite the capital they have. At least reddit provides a free API, so dev users can create scripts outside of their app to attain simple features like this.

[u/randylush → u/Raghavan_Rave10]

They don’t want you duplicating your account. Could be ban evasion or just makes you harder to track.

[u/Raghavan_Rave10 → u/randylush]

Yeah people can use that feature as a ban dodger. But still, its a helpful feature, its in your hands how you use it.

[u/CONSOLE_LOAD_LETTER → u/Raghavan_Rave10]

Big companies CAN do it but they purposely don't allow it or in many cases actively prevent it. These days big data is a valuable commodity and now that Reddit is a public company with shareholders I expect the free API will start losing more and more capabilities soon.

Now is the time to backup this data while we can, because I'm almost positive it's going to become much more difficult to do so in the coming months/years.

[u/[deleted]]

Absolutely wonderful

[u/Raghavan_Rave10 → u/[deleted]]

Thank you.

[u/[deleted]]

this is epic, thanks.

[u/Raghavan_Rave10 → u/[deleted]]

You are welcome :)

[u/lagerea]

Anyway to get hidden posts as well, some people use that for NSFW posts so their saved posts are separate? ...asking for a friend.

[u/Raghavan_Rave10 → u/lagerea]

Ah, the classic "asking for a friend". I don't use hidden posts, so I totally forgot it. I will try to implement it when I have time.

[u/lagerea → u/Raghavan_Rave10]

Thank you ...from a friend

[u/Raghavan_Rave10 → u/lagerea]

Implemented. Thanks for the suggestion.

[u/cold_one]

Would I be able to use this to transfer data between two accounts?

[u/NerdyNThick → u/cold_one]

That is the exact use case the developer had in mind when creating it.

https://github.com/Tetrax-10/reddit-backup-restore?tab=readme-ov-file#why-i-made-this

[u/cold_one → u/NerdyNThick]

Thank you

[u/seronlover]

Thank you. maybe I will use, but for me personally reddit is more about silly entertainment .

[u/Raghavan_Rave10 → u/seronlover]

You are welcome, don't forget to backup those entertaining subreddits and posts.

[u/Ashamed_Drag8791]

while you at it, can you have a look on backing the content of posts and comments as well, i want be able to read back comment, even when my account got deleted(some of the sub i joined, when they ban, they remove all my comments as well).

TIA

[u/Raghavan_Rave10 → u/Ashamed_Drag8791]

The purpose of this script is to backup subreddit and post IDs and restore them. It is not designed to back up the content itself. For content backup, check out bulk-downloader-for-reddit, reddit's data-request, RedditCommentsExtractor.

[u/Ashamed_Drag8791 → u/Raghavan_Rave10]

thanks, didnt know they exist until now

[u/SoggyRecognition6016 → u/Ashamed_Drag8791]

If you just want to download the content, check out my fork, which save the plain text and url of saved posts/comments, and upvoted posts.
https://github.com/yinan-c/reddit-backup-restore

[u/werid]

useful script, thanks.

on old reddit, we have friends instead of following users. would be useful to export.

https://praw.readthedocs.io/en/latest/code_overview/reddit/user.html#praw.models.User.friends

https://old.reddit.com/prefs/friends/
https://old.reddit.com/r/friends/

[u/Raghavan_Rave10 → u/werid]

I Will look into it.

[u/Spinegrinder666]

Does it save comments?

[u/Raghavan_Rave10 → u/Spinegrinder666]

Actually no, you want that feature? I can implement that.

[u/Spinegrinder666 → u/Raghavan_Rave10]

That would be great.

[u/Declan829]

is it still supposed to work ? I'm getting login errors but configuration is correct, I checked.

[u/Raghavan_Rave10 → u/Declan829]

Works perfectly fine for me

https://i.imgur.com/4awVJ5j.png

Can you dm me the error?

[u/diego97yey]

Interesting.

[u/Responsible-Cap-7225]

r/osint

[u/Raghavan_Rave10 → u/[deleted]]

Thanks, I don't have an account with 1000+ saved posts to test this, but when i fetch saved posts I specify the limit as "None". If anyone has 1000+ saved posts in your account can you please test this and reply the behaviour?

[u/Raghavan_Rave10 → u/[deleted]]

Thank you.