reddit sometimes responds with "429 Too Many Requests" seemingly randomly #317
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override request so User-Agent does not get lumped in with all urllib hits on reddit (results in "429 Too Many Requests") http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13213048/urllib2-http-error-429
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fixing that Travis CI error... |
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@davidhubbard, I've changed the code a bit to make it available for all backends. Thanks for your work on it! |
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13213048/urllib2-http-error-429 fixes the problem
Basically reddit rate-limits their API based on the User-Agent string. Instead of sticking with the default (urllib User-Agent) this pull request sets User-Agent to 'python-social-auth-' + _ _ version _ _ so requests shouldn't hit the rate limit without knowing it