• DongFangHongOPM
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    You can use the cookie that Reddit stores on your browser. An easy way to do this is to open up the browser dev tools console to the network tab, load Reddit, and then click on the request that was made to reddit.com in your console. You should be able to find a list of headers, one of which being Cookie. Copy that and paste it in the code.

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      I know this sounds dumb but I have no idea what you’re talking about. What tools or programs do I need to open this and explore the subreddit? Do I need to download anything? Or know code?

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        No it’s not dumb. If your goal is just to be able to explore the content on /r/GenZhou, that would be pretty difficult to do. I don’t know if you’ve taken a look at the archive file but it’s essentially just a bunch of Javascript code that stores the data. It’s pretty much impossible to read easily as-is, even for a programmer. What the next step is going to be is formatting the data so that it becomes human-readable. Some folks are already starting to work doing that. Hopefully eventually we can view everything that was in GenZhou, but on a Lemmy site.