oauth2 outside the praw

[HT-Moh]

Describe the solution you'd like

When oauth2 is done outside the praw, we should be able to instantiate praw.Reddit only with access token, I am not sure if this is possible now, I can not find anything in the doc. the link Using a Saved Refresh Token it's not exactly the same thing.

For the moment I just went with raw implementation

headers = {
      'Authorization': f'Bearer {self.token}',
    }
    params = {'q': query}
    url = 'https://oauth.reddit.com/search'

    response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, params=params)
    response_data = response.json()

Describe alternatives you've considered

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Additional context

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[LilSpazJoekp]

Why are you handling oauth2 outside of PRAW?

As for instantiating PRAW with just a access token, see here: #2012 (comment)

[HT-Moh]

We need users to log in and connect their Reddit accounts using their access tokens. It's not ideal for each user to generate a client ID and secret, beside not all users are techy :-) . This is a common use case for OAuth2 authentication.

[LilSpazJoekp]

PRAW supports this oauth 2 flow already. See here for more details on how this works.

[HT-Moh]

Thanks, but still not clear, let me clarify my setup:

I use a Reddit AI tool designed to search posts for AI agents.
I store the token and refresh token in a database. Users authorize via OAuth2 with a permanent token, which is then stored in the database.
We aim to decouple the Reddit AI tool from the ORM. We plan to pass only the token and refresh token as arguments to the tool. Praw's sole task would be to execute the necessary queries on Reddit.

Note: The AI operations are managed through a job that executes at regular intervals.

Your example didn't illustrate how to pass the refresh token or token to the praw instance.

[LilSpazJoekp]

The usage of the refresh token is documented here.

PRAW will automatically fetch a new access token with the refresh token right before the first network request is made.