further

get_access_token.py

#with our secret key and client id we create our basic requests authentication
auth = requests.auth.HTTPBasicAuth(client_id, secret_key) 

data = {
  'grant_type':'password', #mode of authentication
  'username' : username, 
  'password' : password
} #dictionary with our username, password and type of authentication

headers = {
  'User-Agent' : 'your app name'
  }
  
#using the request post method send our credentials and retrive a temporary access token
res = requests.post('https://www.reddit.com/api/v1/access_token', auth = auth, data = data, headers = headers) 
token = res.json()['access_token'] #retrieving our access token from the res response json

#now we can add our access_token to the headers dictionary. the headers dictionary would be what we use to get the actual data we need
headers['Authorization'] = f'bearer {token}'