Merge pull request #721 from ZapperDJ/ZapperDJ-patch-1

README.md

@@ -438,6 +438,10 @@ The best option would be to always download to a filesystem that is as permissio
 
 The logfiles that the BDFR outputs are consistent and quite detailed and in a format that is amenable to regex. To this end, a number of bash scripts have been [included here](./scripts). They show examples for how to extract successfully downloaded IDs, failed IDs, and more besides.
 
+## Unsaving posts
+
+Back in v1 there was an option to unsave posts from your account when downloading, but it was removed from the core BDFR on v2 as it is considered a read-only tool. However, for those missing this functionality, a script was created that uses the log files to achieve this. There is info on how to use this on the README.md file on the scripts subdirectory.
+
 ## List of currently supported sources
 
 - Direct links (links leading to a file)

scripts/README.md

@@ -2,10 +2,11 @@
 
 Due to the verboseness of the logs, a great deal of information can be gathered quite easily from the BDFR's logfiles. In this folder, there is a selection of scripts that parse these logs, scraping useful bits of information. Since the logfiles are recurring patterns of strings, it is a fairly simple matter to write scripts that utilise tools included on most Linux systems.
 
-- [Script to extract all successfully downloaded IDs](#extract-all-successfully-downloaded-ids)
-- [Script to extract all failed download IDs](#extract-all-failed-ids)
-- [Timestamp conversion](#converting-bdfrv1-timestamps-to-bdfrv2-timestamps)
-- [Printing summary statistics for a run](#printing-summary-statistics)
+  - [Script to extract all successfully downloaded IDs](#extract-all-successfully-downloaded-ids)
+  - [Script to extract all failed download IDs](#extract-all-failed-ids)
+  - [Timestamp conversion](#converting-bdfrv1-timestamps-to-bdfrv2-timestamps)
+  - [Printing summary statistics for a run](#printing-summary-statistics)
+  - [Unsaving posts from your account after downloading](#unsave-posts-after-downloading)
 
 ## Extract all Successfully Downloaded IDs
 
@@ -67,3 +68,23 @@ Excluded submissions: 1146
 Files with existing hash skipped: 0
 Submissions from excluded subreddits: 0
 ```
+
+## Unsave Posts After Downloading
+
+[This script](unsaveposts.py) takes a list of submission IDs from a file named `successfulids` created with the `extract_successful_ids.sh` script and unsaves them from your account. To make it work you will need to make a user script in your reddit profile like this:
+ - Fill in the username and password fields in the script. Make sure you keep the quotes around the fields.  
+ - Go to https://old.reddit.com/prefs/apps/
+ - Click on `Develop an app` at the bottom.
+ - Make sure you select a `script` not a `web app`.
+ - Name it `Unsave Posts`.
+ - Fill in the `Redirect URI` field with `127.0.0.0`.
+ - Save it.
+ - Fill in the `client_id` and `client_secret` fields on the script. The client ID is the 14 character string under the name you gave your script. .It'll look like a bunch of random characters like this: pspYLwDoci9z_A. The client secret is the longer string next to "secret". Again keep the quotes around the fields.
+
+Now the script is ready tu run. Just execute it like this:
+
+```bash
+python3.9 -m bdfr download DOWNLOAD_DIR --authenticate --user me --saved --log LOGFILE_LOCATION
+./extract_successful_ids.sh LOGFILE_LOCATION > successfulids
+./unsaveposts.py
+```

scripts/unsaveposts.py

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#! /usr/bin/env python3.9
+'''
+This script takes a list of submission IDs from a file named "successfulids" created with the 
+"extract_successful_ids.sh" script and unsaves them from your account. To make it work you must
+fill in the username and password fields below. Make sure you keep the quotes around the fields.
+You'll need to make a "user script" in your reddit profile to run this.
+Go to https://old.reddit.com/prefs/apps/
+Click on "Develop an app" at the bottom.
+Make sure you select a "script" not a "web app."
+Give it a random name. Doesn't matter.
+You need to fill in the "Redirect URI" field with something so go ahead and put 127.0.0.0 in there.
+Save it.
+The client ID is the 14 character string under the name you gave your script.
+It'll look like a bunch of random characters like this: pspYLwDoci9z_A
+The client secret is the longer string next to "secret".
+Replace those two fields below. Again keep the quotes around the fields.
+'''
+
+import praw
+
+try:
+    r= praw.Reddit(
+        client_id="CLIENTID",
+        client_secret="CLIENTSECRET",
+        password="USERPASSWORD",
+        user_agent="Unsave Posts",
+        username="USERNAME",
+    )
+
+    with open("successfulids", "r") as f:
+        for item in f:
+            r.submission(id = item.strip()).unsave()
+
+except:
+    print("Something went wrong. Did you install PRAW? Did you change the user login fields?")
+
+
+else:
+    print("Done! Thanks for playing!")
+