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Growth · June 24, 2015

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A tool that crawls a subreddit, downloads images

This is a tool I coded in AutoIt that crawls a Subreddit RSS and finds images to download. If the link leads to a gallery, it crawls that gallery for other images. This is intended for private use only. I don't want you to vacuum pictures off the various image boards this program crawls and call them your own and blame it all on me. Just use it if you want to get cool wallpapers every day or something that's not copyright infringing. Source is included this time. Yes it's a mess, yes I didn't use switch(), yes I should have added more comments and I should name my variables better. And yes,…

A tool that crawls a subreddit, downloads images launched on June 24, 2015 with 5 votes, #1,894 of 3,954 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.

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This is a tool I coded in AutoIt that crawls a Subreddit RSS and finds images to download. If the link leads to a gallery, it crawls that gallery for other images. This is intended for private use only. I don't want you to vacuum pictures off the various image boards this program crawls and call them your own and…

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