Delete all My Reddit Comments

delete_reddit_comments.sh

#!/bin/bash

LIMIT='100'
SLEEP='1'
TOKEN='xxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxxxx'
USERNAME='username'


# Delete a comment by id
function delete_comment() {
  local comment_id="$1"
  local response

  response=$(
    curl -s 'https://oauth.reddit.com/api/del?raw_json=1' \
      -X POST \
      -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:105.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/105.0' \
      -H "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" \
      -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
      --data-raw "id=t1_${comment_id}"
  )
}


# Delete LIMIT comments after the given id
function delete_comment_ids_after() {
  local after="$1"
  local response

  echo "Fetching ${LIMIT} comment ids" >&2
  response=$(
    curl -s "https://oauth.reddit.com/user/${USERNAME}/comments.json?raw_json=1&limit=${LIMIT}&after=${after}" \
      -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:105.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/105.0' \
      -H "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" \
      -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' | jq
  )

  local comment_ids=$(echo $response | jq -r '.data.children[].data.id')
  local last_id=$(echo $response | jq -r '.data.children[-1].data.id')

  for comment_id in $comment_ids; do
    echo "Deleting $comment_id" >&2
    delete_comment "$comment_id"
    sleep "${SLEEP}"
  done

  echo "$last_id"
}


# Delete all comments in your account
function delete_all_comments() {
  local after=''

  while true; do
    after=$(delete_comment_ids_after "$after")
  done
}

delete_all_comments