CODEWITHSUNDEEP
curloauthoauth-2.0reddit
Aljosha Novakovic
Aljosha Novakovic

Reputation: 350

How to gain Reddit API access token?

I have been using this as a resource: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/OAuth2-Quick-Start-Example

I am referencing the Curl Example to acquire a token.

Here is exactly what I am running in terminal:

curl -X POST -d 'grant_type=password&username=ollynov14@password=myrealpassword' --user 'jRje7BA55aycvA:myrealsecret' https://www.reddit.com/api/v1/access_token (of course I have my actual secret and password in those fields above)

and I am getting the following error: {"message": "Too Many Requests", "error": 429} (I have been getting this error from the start so I don't think it actually has to do with how many times I've run this curl)

I just recently signed up for Reddit a couple hours ago in case that makes a difference...

Does anyone have an idea why I may not be getting the access token from the Reddit API? Much appreciated.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2546

Answers (1)

Tanaike
Tanaike

Reputation: 201513

It has to include "User agent". Please add an option "-A" to curl. And for your curl code, 'grant_type=password&username=ollynov14@password=myrealpassword' is wrong. Please change "@" to "&". 

curl -X POST -A 'User agent' -d 'grant_type=password&username=ollynov14&password=myrealpassword' --user 'jRje7BA55aycvA:myrealsecret' https://www.reddit.com/api/v1/access_token

Using above command, following result can be got.

{"access_token": "#####", "token_type": "bearer", "expires_in": 3600, "scope": "*"}

Upvotes: 6

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