Archiving a Reddit post with its media

Reddit stores a post's media in four different shapes, and a naive download gets three of them wrong. This skill handles all four, verified against live posts of each type.

node scripts/rdtx.mjs archive <permalink> --out ./archive --comments 200

What you get

archive/aww_1varxvd/
├── post.json        raw API response, unmodified
├── post.md          readable: title, author, age in years, body, nested comments
├── comments.json    the full tree
├── media/           image.jpeg | gallery_01..NN.jpeg | video.mp4
└── manifest.json    files, sizes, sha256 prefixes, source URLs, media_kind