RedditImageDownloader

RedditImageDownloader is a command line tool written in Ruby for downloading images from any subreddit on reddit.com.

The tool is available on RubyGems:

$ gem install reddit_image_downloader

Use the reddit_image_downloader command to download images. Specify one or more of the options below to customize your query.

$ reddit_image_downloader [options]

You must use --subreddits (shorthand -r) to specify one or more subreddits as a comma-separated list. The following example will download the top images /r/EarthPorn and /r/awww.

$ reddit_image_downloader -r EarthPorn,awww

By default, the command will download all images into the current working directory of your shell. You can override this behavior with the --destination (shorthand -d) option. The following example will download images from /r/Earthporn to your desktop.

$ reddit_image_downloader -r EarthPorn -d ~/Desktop

You may choose to only download images which meet minimum width and height requirements with the --min-width (shorthand -x) and --min-height (shorthand -y) options respectively. The following example will download images from /r/EarthPorn only if they are 1920x1080.

$ reddit_image_downloader -r EarthPorn -x 1920 -y 1080

You may choose to only specify one dimension, as well.

$ reddit_image_downloader -r EarthPorn -y 1080

You may choose to download images from either one the of "top" (default), "new", or "controversial" pages with the --page (shorthand -p) option. The following example will download new images from /r/awww.

$ reddit_image_downloader -r awww -p new

The initial use case for this tool was to manage a folder for wallpaper images. The --max-age (shorthand -a) option can be used to purge images older than a specified number of days. The following example will download images from /r/awww then delete any images that were downloaded more than 14 days ago.

$ reddit_image_downloader -r awww -a 14

You can use the --help (shorthand -h) option to see a list of all the available options and a short description of each. The following example shows the help message:

$ reddit_image_downloader -h

If you're using this to maintain a library of images for use as wallpapers, you probably don't want to have to run the command every day to get the freshest images. If you're on OS X, I wrote a launchd plist which can run the command every few hours.

https://gist.github.com/bloudermilk/6943858

This gem was developed during my open source time at philosophie.

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

Copyright (c) 2013 Brendan Loudermilk

MIT License

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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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