Hello everyone.
With the API changes, I, too, was planing to delete my reddit account. I am still intending on doing so, but I wanted to purge all my content (mostly comments, some even helpful) from that site, before i finally pull the plug on my account.
I used PowerDeleteSuite to edit and delete all my comments, and it successfully edited and deleted about 2000 comments I made.
Visiting my reddit profile (either logged in or from an incognito browser tab, old reddit as well as new) shows that I don’t have any comments or posts.
However, I decided to have reddit provide me with all my stored data, as per the GDPR. This data reveals that I made about 6000 comments over the years, and about 2000 of those comments reflect the edits I made using PDS. But the remaining 4000 comments are still unedited and can be reached via the url in the GDPR spreadsheet.
Is there a tool that allows mass editing all my comments based on a spreadsheet containing URLs to the comments, as tools like PDS are unable to find the remaining ~4000 comments?
you’re looking for shreddit https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit
you’ll need to leave it working for few hours for completion
if you plan to use shreddit, don’t bother to delete comments manually, as it looks like shreddit cannot (currently) skip comments that were already deleted
I am currently successfully using shredit to edit my comments using my GDPR export and everything seems to work fine, I occasionaly can see debug info
which appears on comments I already deleted using PowerDeleteSuite, so it seems shreddit is now already able to handle deleted comments :)
it takes the same time as proper deletion, so i assume shreddit tries to edit and delete anyway, but fails
Thank you so much, this sounds exactly like what I was looking for.
I’ve previously seen people mentioning the name, but googling it lead me to a webservice that is currently defunct due to the API limits.