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scrazzz / redgifs

Simple Python API wrapper for the RedGIFs API
https://redgifs.rtfd.io
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Add support for using client token auth #33

Open jehannes opened 6 months ago

jehannes commented 6 months ago

Summary

i would like to use other tokens than guest to aviod exceeding limits

The Problem

the redgifs documentation suggests a stringent limit for temporary tokens. https://github.com/Redgifs/api/wiki/Temporary-tokens. using other tokens would solve this

The Ideal Solution

ideally both client and user tokens (probably by login) would be able to be used. but user tokens would be good enough

The Current Solution

current solution is to not use this package and implement the auth flow

Additional Context

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scrazzz commented 6 months ago

Hey, thanks for bringing up this issue. I did decide to implement the client token auth but decided to not because redgifs denied my request for a token. So I won't be implementing that anytime soon unless someone helps out by submitting a PR by having a prior discussion about it on Discord.

I can't implement a user token auth (login method) because there's a captcha to complete before logging in which is difficult to do programmatically.

jehannes commented 6 months ago

i get it, that sucks. wouldn't it be possible to put the website for the captcha in the command line so a user can click it and do the captcha?

scrazzz commented 6 months ago

wouldn't it be possible to put the website for the captcha in the command line so a user can click it and do the captcha?

No, it doesn't work like that.

I could ask the user to submit the captcha result (a token that is generated once you complete the captcha) but it involves opening your dev console, a.k.a inspect element option on your browser which isn't desirable for a "normal" user.