I created this script to download the latest (and greatest) wallpapers off of image subreddits like wallpaper to keep my desktop wallpaper fresh and interesting. The main idea is that the script would download any JPEG or PNG formatted image that it found listed in the specified subreddit and download them to a folder.
See ./redditdl.py --help for uptodate details.
redditdl.py [-h] [--multireddit] [--last l] [--score s] [--num n]
[--update] [--sfw] [--nsfw] [--regex REGEX]
[--verbose] [--skipAlbums] [--mirror-gfycat]
[--filename-format FILENAME_FORMAT]
<subreddit> [<dest_file>]
Downloads files with specified extension from the specified subreddit.
positional arguments:
<subreddit> Subreddit name.
<dest_file> Dir to put downloaded files in.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--multireddit Take multirredit instead of subreddit as input. If so,
provide /user/m/multireddit-name as argument
--last l ID of the last downloaded file.
--score s Minimum score of images to download.
--maxscore ms Maximum score of images to download.
--num n Number of images to download.
--width w Minimum width to download.
--height h Minimum height to download.
--update Run until you encounter a file already downloaded.
--sfw Download safe for work images only.
--nsfw Download NSFW images only.
--regex REGEX Use Python regex to filter based on title.
--verbose Enable verbose output.
--skipAlbums Skip all albums
--mirror-gfycat Download available mirror in gfycat.com.
--filename-format FILENAME_FORMAT
Specify filename format: reddit (default), title or
url
--sort-type Sort the subreddit.
An example of running this script to download images with a score greater than 50 from the wallpaper sub-reddit into a folder called wallpaper would be as follows:
python redditdl.py wallpaper wallpaper --score 50
And to run the same query but only get new images you don't already have, run the following:
python redditdl.py wallpaper wallpaper --score 50 -update
For getting some nice pictures of cats in your catsfolder (wich will be created if it doesn't exist yet) run:
python redditdl.py cats ~/Pictures/catsfolder --score 1000 --num 5 --sfw --verbose
Retrieve last 10 pics in the 'wallpaper' subreddit with the word "sunset" in the title (note: case is ignored by (?i) predicate)
python redditdl.py wallpaper sunsets --regex '(?i).*sunset.*' --num 10
Download top week post from subreddit 'animegifs' and use gfycat gif mirror (if available)
python redditdl.py animegifs --sort-type topweek --mirror-gfycat
Available sorting are following : hot, new, rising, controversial, top, gilded
'top' and 'controversial' sorting can also be extended using available time limit extension (hour, day, week, month, year, all).
example : tophour, topweek, topweek, controversialhour, controversialweek etc
Downloading filtered stuff from earthporn
py -2 redditdl.py earthporn wallpapers --verbose --filename-format title --sort-type topweek --width 1920 --height 1080 --score 200 --sfw --num 5
py -2 redditdl.py earthporn wallpapers --verbose --sort-type topweek --width 1920 --height 1080 --score 200 --maxscore 999999 --sfw --num 100
py -2 redditdl.py earthporn wallpapers --verbose --sort-type topweek --width 1920 --height 1080 --score 20 --maxscore 999999 --sfw --num 100 --regex '(?i).*moai.*'