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> Why doesn’t Reddit allow users of the API to log in via OAuth It does: https://github.com/QuantumBadger/RedReader/blob/v1.20/src/main/java/org/quantumbadger
by mdaniel 4y ago
> Why doesn’t Reddit allow users of the API to log in via OAuth
It does:
https://github.com/QuantumBadger/RedReader/blob/v1.20/src/main/java/org/quantumbadger/redreader/reddit/api/RedditOAuth.java#L59 https://github.com/QuantumBadger/RedReader/blob/v1.20/src/ma... but the OAuth client-id is issued to RedReader, meaning that when QuantumBadger's api access gets nuked, there goes RedReader
The alternative is for every single user to register as a developer to get their own OAuth2 client-id, or if Reddit switches to some kind of API token (thus collapsing the distinction between an _application_ and the _user authed through it_)