reddit_scrub.py

# This is a script to delete every comment and post on a reddit account. 
# You may have to run it several times, depending on how many comments and posts you have on your user, due to 
# the batching process of reddit's API.

import praw, csv, pprint

USERNAME = ""
PASSWORD = ""

class Bot:

    def __init__(self):
        print("Initializing Bot")
        self.logged_in = False
        self.r = praw.Reddit(user_agent = "script to delete my comments")
        self.user = self.r.get_redditor(USERNAME)
        self.log_in()
        self.run()

    def run(self):
          try:
              self.get_posts()
              self.get_comments()
          except praw.errors.RateLimitExceeded as error:
              print('\tSleeping for %d seconds' % error.sleep_time)
              time.sleep(error.sleep_time)
          except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError as error:
              raise error
          except KeyboardInterrupt:
              raise
          except:
              raise

    def log_in(self):
        disable_warning=True
        while not self.logged_in:
            try:
              self.r.login(USERNAME, PASSWORD)
              self.logged_in = True
              print("logging in...")
            except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError:
                tag = 'No web connection.'

    def get_posts(self):
        print("getting posts...")
        posts = self.user.get_submitted()
        karma_by_subreddit = {}
        for post in posts:
            content = post.title
            print "Saving post: " + content
            self.save_things("post", content)
            print "Deleting post: " + content
            post.delete()

        pprint.pprint(karma_by_subreddit)

    def get_comments(self):
        print("getting comments...")
        comments = self.user.get_comments(limit=None)
        karma_by_subreddit = {}
        for comment in comments:
            print "Saving comment: "
            print comment
            self.save_things("comment", comment)
            print "Deleting post: "
            print comment
            comment.delete()

        pprint.pprint(karma_by_subreddit)

    # optional parse first line of each comment and post to a CSV file for postarity
    def save_things(self, type, thing):
        myfile = open(type + '.csv', 'a')
        wr = csv.writer(myfile, quoting=csv.QUOTE_ALL)
        wr.writerow([thing])

if __name__ == '__main__':
    a_bot = Bot()