Introduction

A very easy to use Reddit Media Downloader. The library can also be used to download pictures and even picture galleries all just with a reddit post link. You can access Reddit API methods without having your own bot with classes such as DownloadBySubreddit more on that below.

NOTE: As of RedDownloader 4 only Youtube and Imgur Single Image Posts are supported

Installation

To Install the package:

pip install RedDownloader

Usage

from RedDownloader import RedDownloader

RedDownloader is auth less you don't need to have a praw bot to use this package.

After importing, Downloading is just a single line of code

RedDownloader.Download(url)

so if you want to download a post from the post with url -> https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/xi89wf/this_guy_made_a_1hz_cpu_in_minecraft_to_run/ you would do something like:

RedDownloader.Download("https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/xi89wf/this_guy_made_a_1hz_cpu_in_minecraft_to_run/")

This will automatically download media from the passed url it would automatically detect if it's a picture/video/gallery with default options. to pass in an output filename just pass in the output parameter as:

RedDownloader.Download(url , output="MyAwesomeRedditMedia")

In case if a post is of type gallery it will make a folder in the destination path with the output parameter passed. That folder would contain all your pictures. In Case if a folder with that name already exists files would be downloaded in that folder.

To set a custom path for downloaded file use destination as an argument like

RedDownloader.Download(url , output="MyAwesomeRedditMedia" , destination="D:/Pictures/")

default file name is "downloaded". you don't have to pass in extensions to the output parameter.

default download location for file is current working directory.

Another argument is the quality argument which defines the resolution to download if the filetype is a video the avaliable options to choose from are 144, 240, 360, 480, 720, 1080 please note that higher resolution would result in bigger file size. If a video file in specified resolution is not found it will try for a lower resolution. Default: 1080p

An example:

RedDownloader.Download(url , output="MyAwesomeRedditMedia" , quality = 1080)

You at times might need to know the media type of the file being downloaded for that you can use the GetMediaType() method

file = RedDownloader.Download(url)
print(file.GetMediaType())

for images it returns a i for videos it returns a v and for a gallery post it returns a g and a gif for a gif.

The package has been tested for videos with no sound as well.

Galleries were first supported in RedDownloader 2.2.0 any older version used to download a gallery post would return a Post Not Recoganized error

Using Reddit API Methods

To download some number of media from a specific subreddit you can use the DownloadBySubreddit:

RedDownloader.DownloadBySubreddit(subreddit , NumberOfPosts , flair = None , SortBy = "hot" , quality = 720 , output = "downloaded" , destination=None)

subreddit: the subreddit you want to download the posts from. NumberOfPosts: the number of posts to download from the subreddit flair: to download posts from a specfic flair from the subreddit of your choice by defaut flair is set to None and downloads posts from any flair SortBy: it sorts the posts from the subreddit you can set it to either hot, new or top by default it is set to hot output: it is the folder name under which all the posts get downloaded destination: path where the download folder and all the posts are downloaded by default it downloads the posts in current working directory.

essentialy you can just do:

RedDownloader.DownloadBySubreddit("memes" , 15)

this would download the hottest 15 posts from r/memes in a folder called downloaded in your current working directory

alternativley you have:

RedDownloader.DownloadImagesBySubreddit("python" , 5)

This would only download Images from a subreddit it is derived from DownloadBySubreddit hence shares the same argumets as listed above

RedDownloader.DownloadVideosBySubreddit("python" , 5)

This would only download Videos from a subreddit it is derived from DownloadBySubreddit hence shares the same argumets as listed above

RedDownloader.DownloadGalleriesBySubreddit("python" , 5)

This would only download Gallery type posts from a subreddit it is derived from DownloadBySubreddit hence shares the same argumets as listed above

New Features in RedDownloader 3.1.1:

You can now use the GetPostAuthor class to get a post author/poster from a given url the syntax followed is

author = RedDownloader.GetPostAuthor(url).Get()
print(author)

Classes such as DownloadBySubreddit , DownloadImagesBySubreddit , DownloadVideosBySubreddit and DownloadGalleriesBySubreddit now have a method GetPostAuthors which returns a list of authors of the posts you just downloaded.

For regular Download class you can now use the GetPostAuthor class to get a post author.

Example:

posts = RedDownloader.DownloadBySubreddit("python" , 5)
authors = posts.GetPostAuthors()
print(authors)

New Features in RedDownloader 3.2.0:

The GetUser Class

You can now use the GetUser class to get information about a user with the following syntax

User = RedDownloader.GetUser("Jackhammer_YOUTUBE")
print(User.Get())

This returns a dictionary with a couple of information:

Key : ReturnType
    usage

'AccountName' : str
    the username of the user
'ID' : str
    the id of the user
'CreationDate' : float
    the date the user was created (in unix time)
'CommentKarma' : int
    the amount of comment karma the user has
'LinkKarma' : int
    the amount of link karma the user has
'PremiumUser' : bool
    whether the user has a premium account or not
'Moderator' : bool
    whether the user is a moderator or not
'Verified' : bool
    whether the user is verified or not

for suspended accounts only AccountName and Suspended as keys are avaliable

Cache FIles

A new argument called cachefile can now be used with following classes DownloadBySubreddit , DownloadImagesBySubreddit , DownloadVideosBySubreddit and DownloadGalleriesBySubreddit.

cachefile is useful when you don't want to download an already download file with RedDownloader. Everytime you download posts with cachefile all the urls of downloaded posts are stored in the file, RedDownloader checks the url of post to be downloaded next time making sure duplicates are avoided. By default it is set to None meaning it won't be checking for duplicate downloads

To use cachefile your virtual environment or work folder should already have a file, RedDownloader won't manually create cachefiles!!!

If you have an empty file called Downloaded.txt to use cachefile you can simply do

RedDownloader.DownloadBySubreddit('memes' , 5 , cachefile='Downloaded.txt')

This is especially beneficial if you would like to store different types of posts in different cache files.

New Features in RedDownloader 3.2.1:

The GetPostTitles && GetPostTitle Class

You can now use the GetPostTitle class to get a post title from a given url the syntax followed is

title = RedDownloader.GetPostTitle(url).Get()
print(title)

For classes like DownloadBySubreddit , DownloadImagesBySubreddit , DownloadVideosBySubreddit and DownloadGalleriesBySubreddit there is a method GetPostTitles which returns a list of titles of the posts you just downloaded.

And for regular Download class you can now use the GetPostTitle method to get a post title.

The GetPostAudio Class

You can now use the GetPostAudio class to get a post audio from a given url the syntax followed is

audio = RedDownloader.GetPostAudio(url)

To change the file download destination you can set the destination argument to the path you want to download the file to. By default it downloads the file in the current working directory. To change to output file name you can set the output argument to the name of the file you want to download the audio to. By default it downloads the file with the name Audio.mp3.

New Features in RedDownloader 4.0:

Youtube and Imgur Support

Starting RedDownloader 4 you can download reddit posts which link to a youtube video and imgur single files. NOTE: Imgur Album links are not yet supported

Any Version previous to RedDownloader 4 would yield a Post Not Recoganized Error

New Features in RedDownloader 4.2.0:

Verbose Enabling/Disabling [Silent Mode]

Starting RedDownloader 4.2.0 you can disable verbose i.e the ability to download posts without logging anything to the console for a cleaner experience. By default Verbose is set to True That is all the progress is logged to console

All Classes accept verbose as an argument so to disable verbose you can do:

DownloadBySubreddit("memes", 5, output="Funny Memes" , verbose=False)

Trying to use verbose with any version previous to RedDownloader 4.2.0 would yield a got an unexpected keyword argument error

New Features in RedDownloader 4.3.0:

i.redd.it and v.redd.it URLs Support

Starting version 4.3.0 RedDownloader can now directly download images and videos from the media url directly. However one limitation that remains would be that classes such as

GetPostAuthor(), GetPostAudio(), GetPostTitle() will not work for such urls.

For Example:

from RedDownloader import RedDownloader
RedDownloader.Download("https://i.redd.it/pjejgqxwnmyb1.jpg")

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