#!/usr/bin/env python """This example demonstrates the flow for retrieving a refresh token. In order for this example to work your application's redirect URI must be set to http://localhost:8080. This tool can be used to conveniently create refresh tokens for later use with your web application OAuth2 credentials. """ import random import socket import sys import praw def receive_connection(): """Wait for and then return a connected socket.. Opens a TCP connection on port 8080, and waits for a single client. """ server = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) server.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1) server.bind(("localhost", 8080)) server.listen(1) client = server.accept()[0] server.close() return client def send_message(client, message): """Send message to client and close the connection.""" print(message) client.send(f"HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n\r\n{message}".encode("utf-8")) client.close() def main(): """Provide the program's entry point when directly executed.""" print( "Go here while logged into the account you want to create a token for: " "https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps/" ) print( "Click the create an app button. Put something in the name field and select the" " script radio button." ) print("Put http://localhost:8080 in the redirect uri field and click create app") client_id = input( "Enter the client ID, it's the line just under Personal use script at the top: " ) client_secret = input("Enter the client secret, it's the line next to secret: ") commaScopes = input( "Now enter a comma separated list of scopes, or all for all tokens: " ) if commaScopes.lower() == "all": scopes = ["*"] else: scopes = commaScopes.strip().split(",") reddit = praw.Reddit( client_id=client_id.strip(), client_secret=client_secret.strip(), redirect_uri="http://localhost:8080", user_agent="praw_refresh_token_example", ) state = str(random.randint(0, 65000)) url = reddit.auth.url(scopes, state, "permanent") print(f"Now open this url in your browser: {url}") sys.stdout.flush() client = receive_connection() data = client.recv(1024).decode("utf-8") param_tokens = data.split(" ", 2)[1].split("?", 1)[1].split("&") params = { key: value for (key, value) in [token.split("=") for token in param_tokens] } if state != params["state"]: send_message( client, f"State mismatch. Expected: {state} Received: {params['state']}", ) return 1 elif "error" in params: send_message(client, params["error"]) return 1 refresh_token = reddit.auth.authorize(params["code"]) send_message(client, f"Refresh token: {refresh_token}") return 0 if __name__ == "__main__": sys.exit(main())