I edited my Reddit comments using a version of Power Delete Suite that I modified to do the following:
- Include a patch by james2432 on GitHub to add a 5 second delay between every write to avoid running into Reddit's (pre-7/1/23) API limits.
- Backup comments and self-post text as base64 instead of raw text so that the formatting can be restored.
- Include the URI-encoded permalink in the edited comment to allow deep links to the comment itself in the mirror. To use this, enable the "Edit comments / self posts" option and put
%encoded_permalink%
somewhere in your text.- For compatibility with my viewer, use parameters for
user
andpermalink
: https://example.com/path/to/reddit_backup.html?user=USER&permalink=%encoded_permalink%
- For compatibility with my viewer, use parameters for
My fork is available here. If you want to do this too, make sure to run this scrip