You at times might need to know the media type of the file being downloaded for that you can use the GetMediaType() method file = RedDownloader. Download ( url, output = 'MyAwesomeRedditMedia', quality = 1080 ) If a video file in specified resolution is not found it will try for a lower resolution.Īn example: RedDownloader. You don't have to pass in extensions to the output parameter.ĭefault download location for file is current working directory.Īnother argument is the quality argument which defines the resolution to download if the filetype is a video the avaliable options to choose from are 144, 240, 360, 480, 720, 1080 please note that higher resolution would result in bigger file size. Download ( url, output = 'MyAwesomeRedditMedia', destination = 'D:/Pictures/' ) To set a custom path for downloaded file use destination as an argument like RedDownloader. In Case if a folder with that name already exists files would be downloaded in that folder. That folder would contain all your pictures. In case if a post is of type gallery it will make a folder in the destination path with the output parameter passed. Download ( url, output = 'MyAwesomeRedditMedia' ) to pass in an output filename just pass in the output parameter as: RedDownloader.

This will automatically download media from the passed url it would automatically detect if it's a picture/video/gallery with default options. RedDownloader is auth less you don't need to have a praw bot to use this package.Īfter importing, Downloading is just a single line of code RedDownloader. Usage from RedDownloader import RedDownloader NOTE: this package only downloads media from posts with images/video directly uploaded to reddit and not from sources like imgur or youtube / vimeo which are posted to Reddit. You can access Reddit API methods without having your own bot with classes such as DownloadBySubreddit more on that below. The library can also be used to download pictures and even picture galleries all just with a reddit post link. A very easy to use library to download videos from reddit with sound.

Download video from reddit