Ratelimits
Even though Async PRAW respects the X-Ratelimit-*
headers and waits the appropriate time
between requests, there are other unknown ratelimits that Reddit has that might require
additional wait time (anywhere from milliseconds to minutes) for things such as
commenting, editing comments/posts, banning users, adding moderators, etc. Async PRAW
will sleep and try the request again if the requested wait time (as much as 600s) is
less than or equal to Async PRAW’s ratelimit_seconds
configuration setting (default:
5s), Async PRAW will wait for the
requested time plus 1 second. If the requested wait time exceeds the set value of
ratelimit_seconds
, Async PRAW will raise RedditAPIException
.
For example, given the following Reddit
instance:
import asyncpraw
reddit = asyncpraw.Reddit(
client_id="xxx",
client_secret="xxx",
username="xxx",
password="xxx",
user_agent="Example bot v0.0.1 by u/xxx",
ratelimit_seconds=300,
)
Let’s say your bot posts a comment to Reddit every 30s and Reddit returns the ratelimit
error: "You're doing that too much. Try again in 3 minutes."
. Async PRAW will wait
for 181 seconds since 181 seconds is less than the configured ratelimit_seconds
of
300 seconds. However, if Reddit returns the ratelimit error: "You're doing that too
much. Try again in 6 minutes."
, Async PRAW will raise an exception since 360 seconds
is greater than the configured ratelimit_seconds
of 300 seconds.