Download Images/Media from your choice of Subreddit!

Using this script:

• No Setup Needed!
• Download any number of images from Any Subreddit! Tested by downloading 500 images.
• Select your sort type (Top, Hot, New, Controversial)
• Select your sort time (All, Year, Month, Week, Day)
• Extremely Reliable Downloading. With progress bar showing ETA.
• Download using ParallelProcessing
• Specify your custom save location
• Major reddit media servers supported (i.redd.it, imgur, gfycat, redgif)
• If media server is unsupported, Download raw previews
• (Optional) Install tqdm to see tqdm progress and time estimates. Without tqdm, native progress bar is printed to terminal output.

PS: Automatic wallpaper setting from downloaded images and support for python v2.x has been removed in latest update. Feature will be added back soon(~1 week). Please use the old version if you absolutely need that feature.

No Dependencies! Just Download and Run!

Just download the files and run the file - no need to setup anything at all!

To download via Terminal:

git clone https://github.com/tsarjak/WallpapersFromReddit.git

# Next step is Fully Optional - to use tqdm progress bar. Without this, native progress bar will show up with exact same features, just a little less pretty.
pip install tqdm

To run the code

In terminal:

# In the Home Directory or the Directory in which you cloned/downloaded the script
cd ~/DownloadRedditImages
python download.py 
  --subreddit <your choice of subreddit> 
  --sort_type <hot|new|rising|top> 
  --sort_time <all|year|month|week|day>
  --download_dir <Directory where you want to store the images. For Max/Linux, the script can identify home directory and sets a RedditMedia folder there. For Windows, a path MUST be provided>
  --max_post_downloads <Maximum number of posts media to download. Default=10>
  --max_simultaneous_downloads <Maximum number of simultaneous downloads to run using multiple CPU cores. Default=16.>
  --max_trials <Maximum number of trials to fetch subreddit data. Sometimes the response is slow and multiple attempts are needed. Default=20.>

Example:

python download.py --subreddit pics --sort_type top --sort_time all --max_post_downloads 40 --download_dir /Users/user_me/Pictures/RedditMedia/
# This will download top 50 posts of all time from earthporn subreddit to /Users/user_me/Pictures/RedditMedia folder.

• Without tqdm installed:

• With tqdm installed (optional):

Changelogs:

v2.1.1 - Dec 11, 2022:

• Code cleanup and minor bug fixes.

v2.1.0 - Dec 10, 2022:

• Added support for mp4 and gif downloads.
• Added support to download directly from media servers (imgur, i.redd.it, gfycat, redgifs) instead of reddit post previews.
• For other media servers, fallback to reddit post preview download.
• Added native progress bar. As well as tqdm progress bar for those who already have it installed on their systems.
• Removed support for automatic wallpaper changing for Linux and Mac. Support will be added back in v2.1.2.
• Removed support for python v2.x. Some requests/url libraries are difficult to maintain for python v2.x now.

v2.0.0 - April 1, 2021:

• With this release, WallpapersFromReddit is a No Setup Needed script. This release gets rid of all the requirements, essentially making this a download and run program.
• Add support to select the sort_type for downloading images. Previously, only hot was supported, but now hot, top, new, controversial are supported.
• Add support to select the sort_time for downloading images. Previously, only day was supported, but now day, week, month, year, all are supported.
• A major overhaul of the entire codebase. The previous code has been refactored for clarity, optimization and to avoid some unwanted and unexpected behavior.

Grab the previous release here! For wallpaper and python v2.x support.

DownloadRedditImages v2.0.0 - https://github.com/tsarjak/WallpapersFromReddit/releases/tag/v2.0.0