How do I delete all comments from Reddit data export csv for free??
Reddit Migration@kbin.social – 1 points – I have got my privacy report in CSV form and have about 40k comments each with the id parent Id and permalink. Is there a way to parse this to delete script. I know shreddit does it for $15 premium but looking for free options
I am thinking maybe a modified version of this one https://github.com/PranavMahesh1/reddit-user-comment-deleter-by-subreddit
That users the praw python wrapper. But rather than that one going off to pushfit I just feed in the comment IDs from column1 of the Reddit headers CSV into the id_list array from csv. I am not sure I even need to get body of the comment as that is for logging purposes
Recommend giving https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit a try - it supports using the GDPR archive out of the box, no code changes required.
I recently got my export from Reddit and did exactly this. It took shreddit the better part of two days to delete all 18000-odd of my comments.
https://infosec.pub/comment/622385
Free bookmarklet that runs in browser.
I believe that runs on you reddit.com/user/[username] profile page and whereby it only hits the 1000new, 1000top and 1000contraversial
This is not what OP is asking for. PowerDeleteSuite is limited by what the Reddit API allows access to, so about 1000 comments from your profile. It doesn't let you feed a list of comment URLs to it for deletion.
In the csv from Reddit it shows I had over 5100 comments. I ran PowerDeleteSuite and it completely erased all my comments. I kept my account and I go back on Reddit once in a while to check and only once I had to delete a stray comment that popped back up. Otherwise my comment and post history (12 y.o. acct) is gone.
What are you using to prove all your comments are gone? If you are just looking in your profile it will.be empty as Reddit doesn't bump comments into the list unless somone votes on them. So if you delete your new 1000 it doesn't promote the 1001st into that list likewise if you delete your top 1000 it won't promote the 1001st until someone drops a vote on one.
Try googling your username and Reddit and see what is there (I found hundreds even though your profile was showing only two)
Just did that and holy shit there's a ton still left over. Is there another alternative that will delete properly cause my profile shows it's empty.
Edit: And to clarify, I didn't get my GDPR archive back yet despite putting in the request a few weeks ago, so dunno if I can use any of the tools that require the archive.
There is a script that tries pushfit list but not sure if that is still working (edit: no pushfit has gone private I think or just dead), otherwise wait for the gdpr. Mine took about 3weeks but did come through, I think I got in just before the rush though as request the end of the first blackout week.