chrisshiplet/redditpurge.py

redditPurge is a simple Python script which destroys your entire Reddit history.

redditpurge.py's Issues

Doesn't work with reddit's current API access rules.

For anyone who faced the same problem, here is a simple solution using PRAW.

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import praw

client_id = CLIENT_ID
client_secret = CLIENT_SECRET
username = USER_NAME
password = USER_PASSWORD
user_agent = 'redditPurge.py by ' + username

reddit = praw.Reddit(client_id=client_id,
                     client_secret=client_secret,
                     username=username,
                     password=password,
                     user_agent=user_agent)
reddit.validate_on_submit = True

me = reddit.user.me()

is_empty = False
while not is_empty:
    is_empty = True
    for submission in me.submissions.new(limit=None):
        is_empty = False
        submission.delete()

is_empty = False
while not is_empty:
    is_empty = True
    for comment in me.comments.new(limit=None):
        is_empty = False
        comment.edit("deleted")
        comment.delete()

Replace the capitalized parts with your credentials. You can get a client_id and a client_secret from here. This will then remove all your submissions and all your comments after overwriting them.