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request a praw reddit oauth authcode and refresh token
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#!/usr/bin/env python3 | |
import sys | |
import http.server | |
from urllib.parse import urlparse | |
import praw | |
import time | |
""" | |
https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/API | |
http://praw.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started/authentication.html | |
to get a refresh_token | |
- create an app at reddit https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps/ | |
- create a praw.ini: | |
[bot] | |
client_id=clientIdFromPrefsApps | |
client_secret=clientSecretFromPrefsApps | |
user_agent=praw:yourbotname:1.0 (by /u/yourusername) | |
- python refreshToken.py | |
- copy refreshToken and update praw.ini | |
""" | |
redirect_is_local = True | |
redirect_uri = 'http://127.0.0.1:65010/authorize_callback' | |
r = praw.Reddit('bot', redirect_uri=redirect_uri) | |
oauthState = str(int(time.time())) | |
url = r.auth.url(('submit', 'privatemessages', 'read', 'identity'), | |
oauthState, 'permanent') | |
print("copy, call url and confirm, copy code from redirected url") | |
print(url) | |
if redirect_is_local: | |
import webbrowser | |
webbrowser.open(url) | |
# start local http server for callback, prints refreshToken | |
if redirect_is_local: | |
class CallbackHandler(http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler): | |
def do_GET(self): | |
query = urlparse(self.path).query | |
queryParts = dict(qc.split("=") for qc in query.split("&")) | |
if oauthState != queryParts['state']: | |
print('wrong state') | |
self.wfile.write(bytes('wrong state', "utf8")) | |
return | |
code = queryParts['code'] | |
refreshToken = r.auth.authorize(code) | |
text = "authCode:" + code + '\nrefreshToken:' + refreshToken | |
print(text) | |
self.wfile.write(bytes(text, "utf8")) | |
server = http.server.HTTPServer(("127.0.0.1", 65010), CallbackHandler) | |
server.timeout = None | |
server.handle_request() | |
server.server_close() |
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