quick n dirty script to backup contents of saved posts

README.md

@@ -56,6 +56,9 @@ To install without git, [download the source code from GitHub](https://github.co
       -all, --all           get upvoted, saved, comments and submissions
       -V, --version         get program version.
 
+## get-post-contents
+I included a quick-and-dirty shell script that will pull a JSON backup of all your saved posts, and create a new HTML file that includes a link to the JSON backup. it isn't pretty and uses a browser user-agent, as well as going one-by-one, so be prepared to let it sit for a while
+
 ## Updating
 To update the script to the latest version, enter the `export-saved-reddit` folder in your shell/command prompt and enter the following:
 

get_post_contents.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+> export-with-contents.html
+mkdir -p saved-post-data
+htmlfile=export-saved.html
+exec 4<${htmlfile} #open file descriptor to htmlfile (might be too big to read into memory)
+while read -u4 line ;
+do
+    echo "${line}" >> export-with-contents.html
+    if  [[ ${line} == *"HREF"* ]] ;
+    then
+
+	url=$(awk -F '"' '{print $2;}' <(echo "${line}"))
+	post_tag=$(echo "${url}" | sed 's/https:\/\/www.reddit.com//' | sed 's/\///g')
+	echo "getting post data for ${url} (writing data to saved-post-data/${post_tag})"
+	data=$(curl --silent -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/44.0.2403.89 Safari/537.36" ${url}".json")
+	echo "${data}" > saved-post-data/${post_tag}
+	echo "<a HREF=\"saved-post-data/${post_tag}\">    (link to json backup of post)</a>" >> export-with-contents.html
+    fi
+done