Removeddit

Removeddit is a site for viewing removed comments from Reddit. Usage: go to any reddit thread and change the "reddit" in the URL to "removeddit". The site will only display the removed comments and thier parents, not the full thread.

This is a done by comparing the comments found from Reddit API and comments from Jason Baumgartners Pushshift Reddit API. The backend of the site is written in Go and frontend with JavaScript (ES6). You can use this content however you want, as long as it's non-commercial.

Quick start

Install Go and this Go package with:

go get golang.org/x/crypto/acme/autocert

(Note: if you only want to have a local server you could remove all references to this package in server.go and it should work if you run it with the -d flag)

Create a reddit web app here.

Open secret.go and fill out all the variables:

const (
	appName      = "Name of your reddit web app"
	userName     = "Reddit username"
	clientID     = "Go to the link above and check the string under 'web app'"
	clientSecret = "Go to the link above, click the 'edit' link and you'll see the secret"
	version      = "The version of your reddit web app, doesn't really matter, use e.g. '1.0'"
	hostname     = "The hostname of your server in production. Not used if you run locally"
)

And everything should be set up. Now just build the project with:

go build server.go secret.go

And run the program:

./server

(just server in Windows)

If you want to run it this server on localhost use the d flag:

./server -d