From de05453707f11699f38bd4ab55bbd5dcbe28d414 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Mike=20F=C3=A4hrmann?= <mike_faehrmann@web.de>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 22:55:29 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [reddit] add 'limit' option (#7997 #8012 #8092)

change default value from 100 to null,
i.e. don't send a 'limit' parameter
---
 docs/configuration.rst         | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 docs/gallery-dl.conf           |  1 +
 gallery_dl/extractor/reddit.py |  5 +++--
 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/configuration.rst b/docs/configuration.rst
index 8fbfd81a..a53a7bd5 100644
--- a/docs/configuration.rst
+++ b/docs/configuration.rst
@@ -4605,6 +4605,22 @@ Description
     Ignore all submissions posted before/after the submission with this ID.
 
 
+extractor.reddit.limit
+----------------------
+Type
+    ``integer``
+Default
+    ``null``
+Description
+    Number of results to return in a single API query.
+
+    This value specifies the ``limit`` parameter
+    used for API requests when retrieving paginated results.
+
+    ``null`` means not including this parameter at all
+    and letting Reddit chose a default.
+
+
 extractor.reddit.previews
 -------------------------
 Type
diff --git a/docs/gallery-dl.conf b/docs/gallery-dl.conf
index 032337ac..b5dcb4b2 100644
--- a/docs/gallery-dl.conf
+++ b/docs/gallery-dl.conf
@@ -632,6 +632,7 @@
             "date-format" : "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S",
             "id-min"      : null,
             "id-max"      : null,
+            "limit"       : null,
             "previews"    : true,
             "recursion"   : 0,
             "selftext"    : null,
diff --git a/gallery_dl/extractor/reddit.py b/gallery_dl/extractor/reddit.py
index dc167a35..2a1aed85 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/extractor/reddit.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/extractor/reddit.py
@@ -426,13 +426,11 @@ class RedditAPI():
     def submissions_subreddit(self, subreddit, params):
         """Collect all (submission, comments)-tuples of a subreddit"""
         endpoint = subreddit + "/.json"
-        params["limit"] = 100
         return self._pagination(endpoint, params)
 
     def submissions_user(self, user, params):
         """Collect all (submission, comments)-tuples posted by a user"""
         endpoint = "/user/" + user + "/.json"
-        params["limit"] = 100
         return self._pagination(endpoint, params)
 
     def morechildren(self, link_id, children):
@@ -532,6 +530,9 @@ class RedditAPI():
             id_max = float("inf")
         date_min, date_max = self.extractor._get_date_min_max(0, 253402210800)
 
+        if limit := self.extractor.config("limit"):
+            params["limit"] = limit
+
         while True:
             data = self._call(endpoint, params)["data"]