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reddit sometimes responds with "429 Too Many Requests" seemingly randomly #317

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reddit sometimes responds with "429 Too Many Requests" seemingly randomly #317

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override request() to fix "429 Too Many Requests"
davidhubbard Jul 1, 2014
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fix PR #317
davidhubbard Jul 1, 2014
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11 changes: 11 additions & 0 deletions social/backends/reddit.py
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import base64

from social.backends.oauth import BaseOAuth2
import sys


class RedditOAuth2(BaseOAuth2):
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params = super(RedditOAuth2, self).refresh_token_params(token)
params['redirect_uri'] = self.redirect_uri or redirect_uri
return params

def request(self, url, method='GET', *args, **kwargs):
"""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"""
ua = 'python-social-auth-' + sys.modules['social'].__version__
if 'headers' not in kwargs:
kwargs.set('headers', {})
if 'User-Agent' not in kwargs['headers']:
kwargs['headers']['User-Agent'] = ua
return super(RedditOAuth2, self).request(url, method, *args, **kwargs)