Adapt to reddit changes, trade grep for jq, parallelism

README.md

@@ -3,10 +3,9 @@ Simple Subreddit Image Downloader
 Tired of all of those reddit downloaders which want you to install tons of dependencies and then don't work anyway? Me too.
 
 *Simple Subreddit Image Downloader* is bash script which:
-- has minimal external dependencies
+- downloads ALL images from specified subreddit in full size
-- downloads full-size images from subreddits
+- Linux/MacOS/Windows
-- is crossplatform (tested on windows with cygwin)
+- Parallel download
-- uses SSL connection
 
 This script just downloads all directly linked images in subreddit. For more complex usage, use other reddit image downloader.
 
@@ -14,10 +13,10 @@ Requirements
 ============
 - bash (cygwin is OK)
 - wget
-- GNU grep (on MacOS install with `brew install grep --with-default-names`)
+- jq
 
 Usage
 =====
-`./rdit.sh <subreddit_name>`
+`./download-subreddit-images.sh <subreddit_name>`
 
 Script downloads images to folder named "down" in current directory. If you want to change that, you need to edit destination in rdit.sh for now.

download-subreddit-images.sh

@@ -8,21 +8,21 @@ url="https://www.reddit.com/r/$subreddit/.json?raw_json=1"
 content=`wget -U "$useragent" -q -O - $url`
 mkdir -p $subreddit
 while : ; do
-    urls=$(echo -e "$content"|grep -Po '"source": {"url":.*?[^\\]",'|cut -f 6 -d '"')
+    urls=$(echo -e "$content"| jq -r '.data.children[]|select(.data.post_hint|test("image")) | .data.preview.images[0].source.url')
-    names=$(echo -e "$content"|grep -Po '"title":.*?[^\\]",'|cut -f 4 -d '"')
+    names=$(echo -e "$content"| jq -r '.data.children[]|select(.data.post_hint|test("image")) | .data.title')
-    ids=$(echo -e "$content"|grep -Po '"id":.*?[^\\]",'|cut -f 4 -d '"')
+    ids=$(echo -e "$content"| jq -r '.data.children[]|select(.data.post_hint|test("image")) | .data.id')
     a=1
-    for url in $(echo -e "$urls"); do
+    wait # prevent spawning too many processes
-        if [ -n  "`echo "$url"|egrep \".gif|.jpg\"`" ]; then
+    for url in $urls; do
         name=`echo -e "$names"|sed -n "$a"p`
         id=`echo -e "$ids"|sed -n "$a"p`
+        ext=`echo -e "${url##*.}"|cut -d '?' -f 1`
+        newname="$name"_"$subreddit"_$id.$ext
         echo $name
-            newname="$name"_"$subreddit"_$id.${url##*.}
+        wget -U "$useragent" --no-check-certificate -nv -nc -P down -O "$subreddit/$newname" $url &>/dev/null &
-            wget -U "$useragent" --no-check-certificate -nv -nc -P down -O "$subreddit/$newname" $url
-        fi
         a=$(($a+1))
     done
-    after=$(echo -e "$content"|grep -Po '"after":.*?[^\\]",'|cut -f 4 -d '"'|tail -n 1)
+    after=$(echo -e "$content"| jq -r '.data.after')
     if [ -z $after ]; then
         break
     fi