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Now let's create the username and password:
USERNAME = ""
PASSWORD = ""
Next, we are going to create a function to log with this information. The reddit login
API will return a token that you can use for further connections, which will be the
result of this function. The code is as follows:
def login(username, password):
First, if you don't want to add your password to the script, you can set it to None and
you will be prompted, as explained previously. The code is as follows:
if password is None:
password = getpass.getpass("Enter reddit password for user {}:
".format(username))
It is very important that you set the user agent to a unique value, or your connection
might be severely restricted. The code is as follows:
headers = {"User-Agent": USER_AGENT}
Next, we set up a HTTP authorization object to allow us to login at reddit's servers:
client_auth = requests.auth.HTTPBasicAuth(CLIENT_ID, CLIENT_
SECRET)
To login, we make a POST request to the access_token endpoint. The data we send
is our username and password, along with the grant type that is set to password for
this example:
post_data = {"grant_type": "password", "username": username,
"password": password}
Finally, we use the requests library to make the login request (this is done via a
HTTP POST request) and return the result, which is a dictionary of values. One of
these values is the token we will need for future requests. The code is as follows:
response = requests.post("https://www.reddit.com/api/v1/access_
token", auth=client_auth, data=post_data, headers=headers)
return response.json()
We can call now our function to get a token:
token = login(USERNAME, PASSWORD)
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