RedditWiper

Script to remove user's Reddit post submissions and comments.

Installation

This script requires Python > 3.6 and PRAW.

Once Python > 3.6 is installed and virtual environment activated,

pip install praw

or

pip install -r requirements.txt

Edit reddit_wiper.py to include the following credentials:

USERNAME, PASSWORD, CLIENT_ID, CLIENT_SECRET

client_id and client_secret can be obtained by creating an app entry on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps/

(When you're there, a script app, and http://localhost:8080 as the redirect uri should suffice.)

Running the Script

See the usage guide below (python reddit_wiper.py --help). Running the file without any options will go through all of your Reddit comments and submissions and ask you to confirm each deletion.

usage: RedditWiper.py [-h] [-n] [-e] [-c NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS | -C] [-s NUMBER_OF_SUBMISSIONS | -S]
A script to delete your Reddit history.
optional arguments:

-h, --help
show this help message and exit
-n, --noconfirm
Delete without confirming. Confirmation is on by default.
-e, -E, --everything  
Delete everything. Other deletion options take precedence.
-c NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS, --comments NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS
Delete comments. Default is 0.
-C, --all-comments
Delete all comments.
-s NUMBER_OF_SUBMISSIONS, --submissions NUMBER_OF_SUBMISSIONS, --posts NUMBER_OF_SUBMISSIONS
Delete submissions. Default is 0
-S, -P, --all-submissions, --all-posts
Delete all submissions.