Not working, but I swear I set it all up right. Would love some help.

[chronisaurous]

Hey guys, I've never used python before and besides a very, VERY basic understanding of code just from following tutorials and stuff over the years, I really don't know what I'm doing. I do want to learn though and that's why I'm asking here instead of just giving up. It's not really important to me to delete my comments as I've deleted any that I really don't want but I'm determined to figure this out for the sake of learning!

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/6dcxgs/how_do_i_use_shreddit_answered/

I followed the tutorial this guy made and it seemed that everything went well and I made no mistakes until I finally got to the end, opened up Command Prompt and entered "shreddit". It didn't work and here is what was displayed:

C:\Users\me>shreddit
INFO:shreddit:Logged in as me.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python374\Scripts\shreddit-script.py", line 11, in
load_entry_point('shreddit==6.0.7', 'console_scripts', 'shreddit')()
File "C:\Python374\lib\site-packages\shreddit\app.py", line 44, in main
shredder = Shredder(default_config, args.user)
File "C:\Python374\lib\site-packages\shreddit\shredder.py", line 33, in init
self._recent_cutoff = arrow.now().replace(hours=-self._hours)
File "C:\Python374\lib\site-packages\arrow\arrow.py", line 603, in replace
raise AttributeError('unknown attribute: "{}"'.format(key))
AttributeError: unknown attribute: "hours"

I changed my PC user to "me" and my reddit name to "me" for the sake of privacy but apart from that, that's exactly what was displayed.

I would love some help, let me know if you need any other information :)

Thanks

[EthanZeigler]

Came here for the same issue. I'm guessing this app depends on the arrow API, which made a breaking change in an update last week. I'll see if I can make a pull request to fix it if there isn't one already.

[EthanZeigler]

Confirmed fix by pull request #142

This seems abandoned, but there are a few copies (forks) that implemented the change. You can apply it using this command.

pip install git+https://github.com/jdbassa/Shreddit

[kedodrill]

@EthanZeigler Thank you for this, that fork worked perfectly for me.

[hunguscrungus]

@EthanZeigler How exactly do I install and use that fork? Instructions seem the same as the original one.

[bbladesGH]

@hunguscrungus i got the command to work by first installing git (apt-get install git) then i could run the command @EthanZeigler specified. However im still getting an error

This is how i got it to work:

1. install git (apt-get install git)
2. install appdirs with pip3 (pip3 install appdirs)
3. install shreddit using @EthanZeigler's command: (pip3 install git+https://github.com/jdbassa/Shreddit)

[bbladesGH]

@EthanZeigler I did a manual install from the fork you specified, but im still getting the error:

NFO:shreddit:Logged in as RedditUser. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/localuser/.local/bin/shreddit", line 11, in <module> sys.exit(main()) File "/home/localuser/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/shreddit/app.py", line 44, in main shredder = Shredder(default_config, args.user) File "/home/localuser/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/shreddit/shredder.py", line 33, in __init__ self._recent_cutoff = arrow.now().replace(hours=-self._hours) File "/home/localuser/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/arrow/arrow.py", line 603, in replace raise AttributeError('unknown attribute: "{}"'.format(key)) AttributeError: unknown attribute: "hours"

[EthanZeigler]

@bblades262 It's not installed properly then. Please run the command as I listed it above and leave the output log here.

[bbladesGH]

@EthanZeigler thanks for the reply! see below:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/localuser/.local/bin/shreddit", line 11, in
load_entry_point('shreddit==6.0.7', 'console_scripts', 'shreddit')()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/init.py", line 480, in load_entry_point
return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/init.py", line 2693, in load_entry_point
return ep.load()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/init.py", line 2324, in load
return self.resolve()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/init.py", line 2330, in resolve
module = import(self.module_name, fromlist=['name'], level=0)
File "/home/localuser/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/shreddit/app.py", line 8, in
from appdirs import user_config_dir
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'appdirs'

[EthanZeigler]

pip3 install appdirs

[bbladesGH]

Hello again @EthanZeigler !

i saw the typo, i got appdirs to install. its working now! thank you so much!

[KeananFlowerday]

still having the same issues

PS C:\Users\kflow\Desktop\Shreddit-master> pip install git+https://github.com/jdbassa/Shreddit Collecting git+https://github.com/jdbassa/Shreddit Cloning https://github.com/jdbassa/Shreddit to c:\users\kflow\appdata\local\temp\pip-req-build-ei4bp921 Running command git clone -q https://github.com/jdbassa/Shreddit 'C:\Users\kflow\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-req-build-ei4bp921' Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): shreddit==6.0.7 from git+https://github.com/jdbassa/Shreddit in c:\users\kflow\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages Requirement already satisfied: arrow in c:\users\kflow\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages (from shreddit==6.0.7) (0.15.4) Requirement already satisfied: backports-abc in c:\users\kflow\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages (from shreddit==6.0.7) (0.5) Requirement already satisfied: praw>=4 in c:\users\kflow\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages (from shreddit==6.0.7) (6.4.0) Requirement already satisfied: PyYAML in c:\users\kflow\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages (from shreddit==6.0.7) (5.2) Requirement already satisfied: requests in c:\users\kflow\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages (from shreddit==6.0.7) (2.22.0) Requirement already satisfied: six in c:\users\kflow\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages (from shreddit==6.0.7) (1.13.0) Requirement already satisfied: tornado in c:\users\kflow\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages (from shreddit==6.0.7) (6.0.3) Requirement already satisfied: python-dateutil in c:\users\kflow\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages (from arrow->shreddit==6.0.7) (2.8.1) Requirement already satisfied: prawcore<2.0,>=1.0.1 in c:\users\kflow\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages (from praw>=4->shreddit==6.0.7) (1.0.1) Requirement already satisfied: websocket-client>=0.54.0 in c:\users\kflow\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages (from praw>=4->shreddit==6.0.7) (0.56.0) Requirement already satisfied: update-checker>=0.16 in c:\users\kflow\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages (from praw>=4->shreddit==6.0.7) (0.16) Requirement already satisfied: chardet<3.1.0,>=3.0.2 in c:\users\kflow\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages (from requests->shreddit==6.0.7) (3.0.4) Requirement already satisfied: certifi>=2017.4.17 in c:\users\kflow\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages (from requests->shreddit==6.0.7) (2019.11.28) Requirement already satisfied: idna<2.9,>=2.5 in c:\users\kflow\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages (from requests->shreddit==6.0.7) (2.8) Requirement already satisfied: urllib3!=1.25.0,!=1.25.1,<1.26,>=1.21.1 in c:\users\kflow\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages (from requests->shreddit==6.0.7) (1.25.7) WARNING: You are using pip version 19.2.3, however version 19.3.1 is available. You should consider upgrading via the 'python -m pip install --upgrade pip' command. PS C:\Users\kflow\Desktop\Shreddit-master> shreddit INFO:shreddit:Logged in as me. Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\kflow\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\Scripts\shreddit-script.py", line 11, in <module> load_entry_point('shreddit==6.0.7', 'console_scripts', 'shreddit')() File "c:\users\kflow\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages\shreddit\app.py", line 44, in main shredder = Shredder(default_config, args.user) File "c:\users\kflow\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages\shreddit\shredder.py", line 33, in __init__ self._recent_cutoff = arrow.now().replace(hours=-self._hours) File "c:\users\kflow\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages\arrow\arrow.py", line 612, in replace raise AttributeError('unknown attribute: "{}"'.format(key)) AttributeError: unknown attribute: "hours"

[EthanZeigler]

It's likely you didn't uninstall the old one first.

[KeananFlowerday]

i did, but i can do it again

Edit: I fixed it, the pip3 install of your repo needed -- upgrade

[d0t1q]

You can also fix this yourself by locating and editing shredder.py and editing lines 33 and 34 -

• https://github.com/x89/Shreddit/blob/master/shreddit/shredder.py#L33
• https://github.com/x89/Shreddit/blob/master/shreddit/shredder.py#L34

Change "replace" to "shift"

[EthanZeigler]

Due to the increased number of people having the same issue, I'm working on creating a fork named Shredditx that can be community maintained since the original author seems to have abandoned it. It will include the fix to this issue.

[alper]

The fork by @floatingatoll seems to have most stuff in it.

[floatingatoll]

(Hi, I just merged the fixes from all the extant forks into a single one, so that I could use it. I hope it helps others. I'm not actively using it much so it's just as 'abandoned' as the original author's, but it's a better starting point than existed before!)

[LinuxOnTheDesktop]

@floatingatoll

Thanks for creating the new repository. I used it - but perhaps wrongly. (Goodness, python is a pain to setup!) Here is what I did. You will see that I did manage to do the shred. Rather, I got a credentials error.

cd ~/git [obviously, this directory must exist before you do this]
mkdir shreddit
git clone https://github.com/floatingatoll/Shreddit.git
cd Shreddit
pip3 install pipenv

sudo -H python3 setup.py install
shreddit -g
[Here do something to copy old praw.ini file over new one.Then proceed.]
shreddit
[But then I get a 'Bad username or password' error! And the same happens if I use `python3 -m shreddit.app`]

I am on Mint 19.3.

The error I get is described here, in the original shreddit repo, but what is on that page does not help me.

[floatingatoll]

As noted above, I'm not using it actively. If you're able to work it out and fix it in a fork on your own, you are welcome to send me a PR.

[mikeriedel]

@floatingatoll I'm curious why you no longer use it? Did you find a better solution?