https://github.com/erohtar/redditSaver

Automatically Download Saved Reddit Posts & Comments as Markdown Notes (into Obsidian)
https://github.com/erohtar/redditSaver

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Automatically Download Saved Reddit Posts & Comments as Markdown Notes (into Obsidian)

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/erohtar/redditSaver
• Owner: erohtar
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2022-11-08T14:28:05.000Z (about 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-06-12T13:48:16.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-06-18T21:56:26.594Z (over 1 year ago)
• Topics: comments, json, markdown, notes, obsidian, posts, reddit, rss, save
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage:
• Size: 43.9 KB
• Stars: 36
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 3
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# redditSaver

**Automatically Download Saved Reddit Posts & Comments as Markdown Notes (into Obsidian)**

Sample output:

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/5120628/200579098-6311b7f4-0a72-45df-9490-705c25bee720.png)

## Features

- YAML Frontmatter is downloaded along with the markdown formatted note - supports using it with **Dataview** plugin (see below)

- Notes are saved in `reddit\\` hierarchy

- Clickable link to the post/comment is added at the top of the note (besides being saved in Frontmatter)

## Setup

1. Go to [this url](https://ssl.reddit.com/prefs/feeds/) and copy this link:

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/5120628/200579587-48bad4e3-e569-4417-a76c-3e88f2353fa7.png)

2. Copy **settings.sample.json** to **settings.json** and udpate these values:

	- `jsonUrl` : Put above copied link

	- `rootPath` : Your notes target path (use double forward slashes)

	- `overWrite` : If you wish to overwrite your existing note files with latest downloads, set this to 1

```

{

	"jsonUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/user/erohtar/saved.json?feed=xxxxxxxxx&user=erohtar",

	"rootPath": "C:\\ObsidianVault\\Reddit",

	"overWrite": 0

}

```

3. Download ([optionally portable](https://github.com/garethflowers/nodejs-portable/)) **node.js** and run **redditSaver.js** with it:

`\node\node.exe redditSaver.js`

4. Done. Your notes should be created at the set path:

`\Reddit\\__.md`

## Dataview Example

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/5120628/209553135-5a5d9571-0773-4e48-a571-f1b14732b770.png)

Create a new note named **redditSaver** at the root of your Obsidian vault, and put this code there to get a nice table view of all your saved posts/comments:

````

```dataview

TABLE WITHOUT ID "[" + title + "](" + file.path + ")" AS "Title", type AS "Type", sub AS "r/"

FROM "Reddit"

SORT file.ctime DESC

```

````

## Additional Notes

- Reddit limits last 25 saved posts/comments in that feed

- Scheduled running of this script once daily (or so) will keep your latest saves updated automatically

- This is NOT an Obsidian plugin, and if someone wants to create one based on this idea or my code, they're more than welcome to

- To save a reddit *crosspost*, go to the target post and save that instead of the link post (a habit I'll have to get into myself as well)