Unable to get multiple accounts working

[ghost]

I did the initial run with the URL authentication for one of my reddit accounts and it works perfectly. However, I have three account that I use that I can't sign into because the URL authentication required for downloading saved posts does not prompt.

python -m bdfr download C:\Users(Name)\Downloads\Reddit_Account --user me --saved --authenticate

This works great. To add a new account with authentication I use:

python -m bdfr download C:\Users(Name)\Downloads\Reddit_Account --user second_reddit_account --saved --authenticate

and get this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\0rpheus\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\runpy.py", line 197, in _run_module_as_main
return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
File "C:\Users\0rpheus\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\runpy.py", line 87, in run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File "C:\Users\0rpheus\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\bdfr_main.py", line 151, in
cli()
File "C:\Users\0rpheus\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\click\core.py", line 1137, in call
return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\0rpheus\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\click\core.py", line 1062, in main
rv = self.invoke(ctx)
File "C:\Users\0rpheus\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\click\core.py", line 1668, in invoke
return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
File "C:\Users\0rpheus\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\click\core.py", line 1404, in invoke
return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
File "C:\Users\0rpheus\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\click\core.py", line 763, in invoke
return _callback(*args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\0rpheus\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\click\decorators.py", line 26, in new_func
return f(get_current_context(), *args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\0rpheus\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\bdfr_main.py", line 80, in cli_download
reddit_downloader.download()
File "C:\Users\0rpheus\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\bdfr\downloader.py", line 44, in download
for submission in generator:
File "C:\Users\0rpheus\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\praw\models\listing\generator.py", line 63, in next
self._next_batch()
File "C:\Users\0rpheus\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\praw\models\listing\generator.py", line 73, in _next_batch
self._listing = self._reddit.get(self.url, params=self.params)
File "C:\Users\0rpheus\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\praw\reddit.py", line 566, in get
return self._objectify_request(method="GET", params=params, path=path)
File "C:\Users\0rpheus\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\praw\reddit.py", line 666, in _objectify_request
self.request(
File "C:\Users\0rpheus\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\praw\reddit.py", line 848, in request
return self._core.request(
File "C:\Users\0rpheus\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\prawcore\sessions.py", line 324, in request
return self._request_with_retries(
File "C:\Users\0rpheus\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\prawcore\sessions.py", line 260, in _request_with_retries
raise self.STATUS_EXCEPTIONSresponse.status_code
prawcore.exceptions.Forbidden: received 403 HTTP response

I hope some one can explain to me how to get all three accounts working. I must be missing something because the doc says it should work.

"When using --authenticate, --user me can be used to refer to the authenticated user
Can be specified multiple times for multiple users"

Thanks!

[aliparlakci]

--authenticate and --user are two entirely different things. --authenticate refers to the user logged in to the reddit (the account you gave access to reddit through the URL). --user is only for specifying the user for --multireddit or --upvoted. It is like visiting another redditor's profile in your browser. You don't login as their accounts, per se.

Each time you authenticate with the provided URL, your credentials are saved to a configuration location. BDFR does not prompt for a new login unless there exists a credential in that location.

Thus, you can delete the configuration folder, run BDFR with --authenticate option and authorize with the given link for account1. Then, move the default_config.cfg file to somewhere else and rename it to account1_config.cfg. Do this again for every account you want to use.

To specify which account you want to authenticate with, append this generic options (fill with actual data) to your command: --authenticate --config path/to/accountX_config.cfg

[ghost]

Understood. Thanks!