Setup

Creating a Reddit App

Navigate to the reddit application settings page then scroll down and click create another app… under the developed applications section.

Fill in the form with the following values (while most of them doesn’t matter, I figured it’d be easier to provide you everything rather than confuse you with what you have to put where).

Field Name	Value
Name	Claim Done Remover
[Radio Buttons]	Script
Description	App for removing claims and dones from ToR
about url	https://claimdoneremover.theodorehua.dev
redirect uri	http://localhost:9575

Once you’ve filled everything in, the box should look something like this:

After you’ve double checked the values, click create app. After a few seconds a new box should pop up under the developed apps section, you’re going to need the client ID and client secret (ID is located under the words personal use script and secret is located next to the word secret). See the circled locations in the example image:

You’re going to want to keep those values in mind as you’re going to need them later on.

Open the Application

In the folder where you installed CDR, run the application named ClaimDoneRemover.pyw, it may take a few seconds to load up, don’t worry if it says error.

After it loads, you should click the Options button followed by Edit Config. Fill in User with your reddit username (do not include /u/, for example, if my reddit username is /u/TheodoreHua then I would fill in TheodoreHua). You can leave the other values as is for now as they’ll work (you can change them later on).

Now click submit, there’s going to be a popup stating that you need to restart the application to put the changes into effect, click ok and don’t restart the program. Now you should click the button in the options menu named Edit PRAW Config. Fill in the Client ID and Client Secret fields with the values you got in the reddit setup section then click the Generate button next to the Refresh Token field. A page should open up in your webbrowser, login to reddit (if you haven’t already), then click allow. Hopefully the browser now says Success, if it does and you see that the Refresh Token field is now filled in, great you can proceed to the next step, if not, try it again and if it still doesn’t work then contact me.

Note

It’s normal for the CDR windows to not be responding while you follow the reddit flow in your browser, this is normal behaviour. Please do not close the program if Windows prompts you to do so. There’s currently nothing I can do to avoid this as I can’t process window updates while waiting for the Reddit request.

You should now restart CDR, you can do so by clicking the Restart CDR button in the options menu or clicking the X and opening the file again (the former is easier).

All Setup!

That’s it! If you did everything properly, CDR should now be configured and ready for use. You will see an output after a few seconds. Each comment older than your cutoff or has a bot reply (depending on the config) should be deleted. You can then either leave the program running in the background to delete posts while you are transcribing as it gets triggered, or you can manually run it now and then in order to delete comments in batches. If you persistently see that a comment is “Awaiting Trigger”, you may chose to override the trigger and delete it regardless of whether the bot responded or reached cutoff using the menu option.

If you’d like to edit the config options (or see what they do), you should go to the config options page and the modes page. If you have any questions at all, feel free to contact me at contact@theodorehua.dev. You can also check the FAQ first to see if your question has already been answered.