[BUG] Does not work with PRAW 7.7.1, throws a 429 HTTP Response instead

[iammarxg]

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• [ yes ] I am running the latest version of BDfR
• [ yes ] I have read the Opening an issue

Description

Using PRAW 7.7.1 returns a 429 HTTP Response. Using 7.7.0 does not, and it allows bdfr to run normally.

Command

py -m bdfr download ./REDDIT-DL -s SUBREDDITNAME -S new -t all --file-scheme {DATE}-{TITLE}-{POSTID}

Environment (please complete the following information)

• OS: Windows 11
• Python version: 3.10

Logs

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python310\lib\runpy.py", line 196, in _run_module_as_main
    return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
  File "C:\Python310\lib\runpy.py", line 86, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "C:\Python310\lib\site-packages\bdfr\__main__.py", line 222, in <module>
    cli()
  File "C:\Python310\lib\site-packages\click\core.py", line 1130, in __call__
    return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Python310\lib\site-packages\click\core.py", line 1055, in main
    rv = self.invoke(ctx)
  File "C:\Python310\lib\site-packages\click\core.py", line 1657, in invoke
    return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
  File "C:\Python310\lib\site-packages\click\core.py", line 1404, in invoke
    return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
  File "C:\Python310\lib\site-packages\click\core.py", line 760, in invoke
    return __callback(*args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Python310\lib\site-packages\click\decorators.py", line 26, in new_func
    return f(get_current_context(), *args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Python310\lib\site-packages\bdfr\__main__.py", line 117, in cli_download
    reddit_downloader = RedditDownloader(config, [stream])
  File "C:\Python310\lib\site-packages\bdfr\downloader.py", line 41, in __init__
    super(RedditDownloader, self).__init__(args, logging_handlers)
  File "C:\Python310\lib\site-packages\bdfr\connector.py", line 65, in __init__
    self.reddit_lists = self.retrieve_reddit_lists()
  File "C:\Python310\lib\site-packages\bdfr\connector.py", line 168, in retrieve_reddit_lists
    master_list.extend(self.get_subreddits())
  File "C:\Python310\lib\site-packages\bdfr\connector.py", line 276, in get_subreddits
    self.check_subreddit_status(reddit)
  File "C:\Python310\lib\site-packages\bdfr\connector.py", line 438, in check_subreddit_status
    assert subreddit.id
  File "C:\Python310\lib\site-packages\praw\models\reddit\base.py", line 35, in __getattr__
    self._fetch()
  File "C:\Python310\lib\site-packages\praw\models\reddit\subreddit.py", line 827, in _fetch
    data = self._fetch_data()
  File "C:\Python310\lib\site-packages\praw\models\reddit\base.py", line 89, in _fetch_data
    return self._reddit.request(method="GET", params=params, path=path)
  File "C:\Python310\lib\site-packages\praw\util\deprecate_args.py", line 43, in wrapped
    return func(**dict(zip(_old_args, args)), **kwargs)
  File "C:\Python310\lib\site-packages\praw\reddit.py", line 941, in request
    return self._core.request(
  File "C:\Python310\lib\site-packages\prawcore\sessions.py", line 330, in request
    return self._request_with_retries(
  File "C:\Python310\lib\site-packages\prawcore\sessions.py", line 266, in _request_with_retries
    raise self.STATUS_EXCEPTIONS[response.status_code](response)
prawcore.exceptions.TooManyRequests: received 429 HTTP response

[mbarr564]

This was working for me just three weeks ago, with praw 7.7.1, and may be something reddit broke on their API recently.
I tried my working environment again today, and I'm now getting HTTP 429 responses.
Thanks for mentioning the praw downlevel workaround.

[jgore077]

@mbarr564 Is this fix still working?

[jgore077]

I can confirm that the frequency of 429's goes down when using praw 7.7.0