Redirect reddit to libreddit

Libreddit will run locally on port 8080 and will be accessed on the libreddit.local url.

(The reddit API changes rendered most public libreddit instances unusable, but it still works fine if you run a local instance for yourself.)

Nginx proxy to redirect libreddit.local to localhost:8080

Add to /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1 libreddit.local

Add to /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:

worker_processes  1;

events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}

http {
    include       mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;
    sendfile        on;
    keepalive_timeout  65;
    server {
        listen 80;
        server_name libreddit.local;
        location / {
            proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
            proxy_set_header   Host $http_host;
            proxy_pass         "http://127.0.0.1:8080";
        }
    }
}

Launch nginx:

systemctl start nginx

Launch libreddit:

setsid -f libreddit

Qutebrowser config for automatic rewriting of reddit urls

(qutebrowser)

Add to ~/.config/qutebrowser/config.py:

from qutebrowser.api import interceptor, message

REDIRECT_MAP = {
    "reddit.com": 'libreddit.local',
    "www.reddit.com": 'libreddit.local',
}

def int_fn(info: interceptor.Request):
    if (info.resource_type != interceptor.ResourceType.main_frame or
            info.request_url.scheme() in {"data", "blob"}):
        return
    url = info.request_url
    source_host = url.host()
    target_host = REDIRECT_MAP.get(source_host)
    if target_host is not None and url.setHost(target_host) is not False:
        if source_host == "reddit.com" or source_host == "www.reddit.com":
            url.setScheme('http')
        message.info("Redirecting to " + url.toString())
        info.redirect(url)

interceptor.register(int_fn)