[BUG] Exception not allowing to even authenticate

[mcDandy]

• I am reporting a bug.
• I am running the latest version of BDfR
• I have read the Opening an issue

Description

I am getting oauth error while I did not even set it to authenticate. This is my first run so I would expect a link to show up. It did not.

Command

bdfr clone ./aang --user usernamehere

Environment (please complete the following information)

• OS: Windows 11
• Python version: 3.12

Logs

I looked in both paths but log file does not exitst.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 198, in _run_module_as_main
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 88, in _run_code
  File "C:\Users\danda\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Scripts\bdfr.exe\__main__.py", line 2, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\danda\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\site-packages\bdfr\__main__.py", line 11, in <module>
    from bdfr.archiver import Archiver
  File "C:\Users\danda\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\site-packages\bdfr\archiver.py", line 21, in <module>
    from bdfr.connector import RedditConnector
  File "C:\Users\danda\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\site-packages\bdfr\connector.py", line 29, in <module>
    from bdfr.oauth2 import OAuth2Authenticator, OAuth2TokenManager
  File "C:\Users\danda\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\site-packages\bdfr\oauth2.py", line 90, in <module>
    class OAuth2TokenManager(praw.reddit.BaseTokenManager):
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: module 'praw.reddit' has no attribute 'BaseTokenManager'

[barkawa]

Seems to be caused by the new praw 7.8

Installing 7.7.1 works for me:
pip install praw==7.7.1

[mcDandy]

That worked. It still does not attempt to get auth token and it results in empty folder after replacing username with something what exists (or that user exists).

Version 7.7.1 of praw is outdated. Version 7.8.1 was released Friday October 25, 2024.
[2025-12-21 21:18:35,709 - root - INFO] - Program complete

[jxmesth]

@mcDandy, same here. Did you find a solution to the issue?

[mcDandy]

To the downloading? Sadly I did not. Maybe I am missing something.

[barkawa]

@mcDandy @jxmesth Try using the --authenticate flag

[Fakeaccount12312]

I assume this is because Reddit now requires authentication for API access? So praw requires it too now, no matter what you specify in bdfr. The old version does not, but as you see it doesn't work because it can't access the Reddit API.

Just always use the --authenticate flag.

[EkriirkE]

#1012 should resolve this