Unable to authenticate my reddit user?

[FowadIjaz]

I've been able to use BDFR before, but had to do a new install of python which meant reinstalling BDFR. This means I'm on python 3.10 and the latest version of BDFR, 2.6 I think. Problem is that when I use the flag --authenticate, it returns the following error:

[2023-03-04 17:42:16,510 - bdfr.connector - ERROR] - User username failed to be retrieved due to a PRAW exception: received 400 HTTP response

I've completely forgotten what the process to authenticate is.. I've gone back to the older version to see if I can piece it together, but get the same error message. Can anyone help?

[Serene-Arc]

Try running the --authenticate option without any other arguments, just that on the command line. That should let you go through the process in a simpler manner.

This error seems to be an issue with the command you're using. The BDFR is looking for a user named 'username', which doesn't exist, so it's erroring out.

[FowadIjaz]

Sorry, forgot to mention that I'm not using a generic user named username, I just switched out my actual username to that in the command.

For running --authenticate by iteself, I'm not sure how that works, would it be like this?

python -m bdfr clone ./Test --user username --authenticate

[FowadIjaz]

So... the issue was that I was already logged in as another user. Or anyways, the program was relying on authentication data other than the default data. Using the bash script in this issue, I was able to "log out" and then the authentication process went through smoothly : #604