bugswriter / redyt

Search reddit with CLI

redyt

Scrape Reddit images from the Terminal

This shell script will automatically create the following folder:

• ~/.config/redyt

Also, another file, containing the subreddits, will be created:

• ~/.config/redyt/subreddit.txt

If the user does not modify this file, it will contain, by default, subreddit linuxmemes. However, this default subreddit can be changed by modifying the variable defaultsub.

Note that you can either pass a subreddit as an argument (./redyt [your-subreddit]) or, from dmenu, type the name of another subreddit.

Here's an example of a custom subreddit.txt: http://0x0.st/-rbq.txt

Please note: you will need to install the following programs:

• dmenu (User Input)
• jq (JSON parsing)
• sxiv (Image Viewing)

notify-send is also recommended but, if not present, echo will be used as a notifier.

Usage

$ redyt [-l LIMIT] [-v] [-k] [SUBREDDIT]
$ redyt [--limit LIMIT] [--verbose] [--keep] [SUBREDDIT]

Arguments

• -l LIMIT, --limit LIMIT set the maximum number of files to be downloaded
• -k, --keep don't remove files after quitting sxiv
• -v, --verbose use notifier

redyt's Issues

Getting redirection unexpected error.

Cannot view images after download

I get this error message after downloading the images from a subreddit:

sxiv: /home/ashish/.cache/redyt/*.png: No such file or directory
sxiv: /home/ashish/.cache/redyt/*.jpg: No such file or directory
sxiv: No valid image file given, aborting

Not sure what's going on. :-(

Script Failing

After running the script with my desired subreddit, I see the files appearing in .cache/redyt
HOWEVER, after the script ends all of them dissapear and I get this:

FINISHED --2020-12-30 14:36:14--
Total wall clock time: 16s
Downloaded: 101 files, 38M in 7,3s (5,20 MB/s)
sxiv: /home/outer/.cache/redyt/.png: No such file or directory
sxiv: /home/outer/.cache/redyt/.jpg: No such file or directory
sxiv: No valid image file given, aborting

License ?

License isn't mentioned anywhere.