Reddit API returns HTTP 777 responses during outages 🤪

[snarfed]

Describe the Bug

Reddit is recovering from a pretty major outage today: https://www.redditstatus.com/ . During the outage, the API evidently got really wacky and started returning HTTP 777 errors, which praw asserted on while fetching batches of submissions. Code and stack trace below.

I don't know where to even begin with the Reddit API. HTTP 777?!? Not sure if this is worth doing anything on your end, but it's kinda hilarious, so if nothing else, I figured you might get a laugh out of it.

First saw this at 3:42p PT today, still happening.

Desired Result

Not sure, but probably not AssertionError.

Code to reproduce the bug

# https://github.com/snarfed/granary/blob/main/granary/reddit.py#L273-L280
# Assertion is on the last line, fetching a batch of submissions.

    self.api = praw.Reddit(
      client_id=reddit.REDDIT_APP_KEY,
      client_secret=reddit.REDDIT_APP_SECRET,
      refresh_token=refresh_token,
      user_agent=util.user_agent,
      # https://praw.readthedocs.io/en/stable/getting_started/configuration/options.html#basic-configuration-options
      check_for_updates=False)
    self.api.read_only = True
    ...
    if activity_id:
      submissions = [self.api.submission(id=activity_id)]
    elif search_query:
      submissions = self.api.subreddit('all').search(search_query, sort='new', limit=count)
    else:
      submissions = self._redditor(user_id).submissions.new(limit=count)

    activities = [self.praw_to_activity(s, 'submission') for s in submissions]

The Reddit() initialization in my code example does not include the following parameters to prevent credential leakage:

client_secret, password, or refresh_token.

• [X] Yes

Relevant Logs

Traceback (most recent call last):
  ...
  File "/granary/reddit.py", line 280, in <listcomp>
    activities = [self.praw_to_activity(s, 'submission') for s in submissions]
  File ".../praw/models/listing/generator.py", line 63, in __next__
    self._next_batch()
  File ".../praw/models/listing/generator.py", line 89, in _next_batch
    self._listing = self._reddit.get(self.url, params=self.params)
  File ".../praw/util/deprecate_args.py", line 43, in wrapped
    return func(**dict(zip(_old_args, args)), **kwargs)
  File ".../praw/reddit.py", line 712, in get
    return self._objectify_request(method="GET", params=params, path=path)
  File ".../praw/reddit.py", line 517, in _objectify_request
    self.request(
  File ".../praw/util/deprecate_args.py", line 43, in wrapped
    return func(**dict(zip(_old_args, args)), **kwargs)
  File ".../praw/reddit.py", line 941, in request
    return self._core.request(
  File ".../prawcore/sessions.py", line 330, in request
    return self._request_with_retries(
  File ".../prawcore/sessions.py", line 269, in _request_with_retries
    assert (
AssertionError: Unexpected status code: 777

This code has previously worked as intended.

Yes

Operating System/Environment

Ubuntu 18.04

Python Version

3.9

PRAW Version

7.7.0

Prawcore Version

2.3.0

Anything else?

No response

[dkgitcode]

@snarfed Can confirm this is happening to me as well haha. I googled "777 http error code" and found absolutely nothing. I'm assuming that this issue will likely be gone once all reddit services are back up. I believe any request right now throws a 777 response.

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[snarfed]

ah stale bot, never change

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