Window size config

CHANGES.rst

@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ Unreleased
 - :func:`.stream_generator` now accepts the ``continue_after_id`` parameter, which
   starts the stream after a given item ID.
 - Support for new share URL format created from Reddit's mobile apps.
+- :class:`.Reddit` has a new configurable parameter, ``window_size``. This tells PRAW
+  how long reddit's rate limit window is. This defaults to 600 seconds and shouldn't
+  need to be changed unless reddit changes the size of their rate limit window.
 
 **Fixed**
 

docs/getting_started/configuration/options.rst

@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ These are options that do not belong in another category, but still play a part
     throwing an exception.
 :warn_comment_sort: When ``true``, log a warning when the ``comment_sort`` attribute of
     a submission is updated after ``_fetch()`` has been called (default: ``true``).
+:window_size: The number of seconds between rate limit resets (default: 600).
 
 .. _custom_options:
 

docs/getting_started/logging.rst

@@ -17,15 +17,34 @@ Add the following to your code to log everything available:
         logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
         logger.addHandler(handler)
 
+Or you can use the following to write the logs to a file for longer running bots or
+scripts when you need to look back at what the bot did hours ago.
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    import logging
+
+    stream_handler = logging.StreamHandler()
+    stream_handler.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
+    file_handler = logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler(
+        "praw_log.txt", maxBytes=1024 * 1024 * 16, backupCount=5
+    )
+    file_handler.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
+    for logger_name in ("praw", "prawcore"):
+        logger = logging.getLogger(logger_name)
+        logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
+        logger.addHandler(stream_handler)
+        logger.addHandler(file_handler)
+
 When properly configured, HTTP requests that are issued should produce output similar to
 the following:
 
 .. code-block:: text
 
-    Fetching: GET https://oauth.reddit.com/api/v1/me
+    Fetching: GET https://oauth.reddit.com/api/v1/me at 1691743155.4952002
     Data: None
     Params: {'raw_json': 1}
-    Response: 200 (876 bytes)
+    Response: 200 (876 bytes) (rst-45:rem-892:used-104 ratelimit) at 1691743156.3847592
 
 Furthermore, any API ratelimits from POST actions that are handled will produce a log
 entry with a message similar to the following message:

praw/config.py

@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ def _initialize_attributes(self):
         self.warn_additional_fetch_params = self._config_boolean(
             self._fetch_default("warn_additional_fetch_params", default=True)
         )
+        self.window_size = self._fetch_default("window_size", default=600)
         self.kinds = {
             x: self._fetch(f"{x}_kind")
             for x in [

praw/models/auth.py

@@ -53,7 +53,9 @@ def authorize(self, code: str) -> str | None:
         authenticator = self._reddit._read_only_core._authorizer._authenticator
         authorizer = Authorizer(authenticator)
         authorizer.authorize(code)
-        authorized_session = session(authorizer)
+        authorized_session = session(
+            authorizer=authorizer, window_size=self._reddit.config.window_size
+        )
         self._reddit._core = self._reddit._authorized_core = authorized_session
         return authorizer.refresh_token
 
@@ -78,7 +80,10 @@ def implicit(self, *, access_token: str, expires_in: int, scope: str):
         if not isinstance(authenticator, UntrustedAuthenticator):
             raise InvalidImplicitAuth
         implicit_session = session(
-            ImplicitAuthorizer(authenticator, access_token, expires_in, scope)
+            authorizer=ImplicitAuthorizer(
+                authenticator, access_token, expires_in, scope
+            ),
+            window_size=self._reddit.config.window_size,
         )
         self._reddit._core = self._reddit._authorized_core = implicit_session
 

praw/reddit.py

@@ -549,7 +549,9 @@ def _prepare_common_authorizer(
         else:
             self._core = self._read_only_core
             return
-        self._core = self._authorized_core = session(authorizer)
+        self._core = self._authorized_core = session(
+            authorizer=authorizer, window_size=self.config.window_size
+        )
 
     def _prepare_objector(self):
         mappings = {
@@ -628,13 +630,17 @@ def _prepare_trusted_prawcore(self, requestor: prawcore.requestor.Requestor):
             self.config.redirect_uri,
         )
         read_only_authorizer = ReadOnlyAuthorizer(authenticator)
-        self._read_only_core = session(read_only_authorizer)
+        self._read_only_core = session(
+            authorizer=read_only_authorizer, window_size=self.config.window_size
+        )
 
         if self.config.username and self.config.password:
             script_authorizer = ScriptAuthorizer(
                 authenticator, self.config.username, self.config.password
             )
-            self._core = self._authorized_core = session(script_authorizer)
+            self._core = self._authorized_core = session(
+                authorizer=script_authorizer, window_size=self.config.window_size
+            )
         else:
             self._prepare_common_authorizer(authenticator)
 
@@ -643,7 +649,9 @@ def _prepare_untrusted_prawcore(self, requestor: prawcore.requestor.Requestor):
             requestor, self.config.client_id, self.config.redirect_uri
         )
         read_only_authorizer = DeviceIDAuthorizer(authenticator)
-        self._read_only_core = session(read_only_authorizer)
+        self._read_only_core = session(
+            authorizer=read_only_authorizer, window_size=self.config.window_size
+        )
         self._prepare_common_authorizer(authenticator)
 
     def _resolve_share_url(self, url: str) -> str: