Configuring PRAW

• Configuration Options
  • Basic Configuration Options
  • OAuth Configuration Options
  • Reddit Site Configuration Options
  • Custom Configuration Options

Configuration options can be provided to PRAW in one of three ways:

• praw.ini Files
• Keyword Arguments to Reddit
• PRAW Environment Variables

Environment variables have the highest priority, followed by keyword arguments to Reddit, and finally settings in praw.ini files.

Using an HTTP or HTTPS proxy with PRAW

PRAW internally relies upon the requests package to handle HTTP requests. Requests supports use of HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY environment variables in order to proxy HTTP and HTTPS requests respectively [ref].

Given that PRAW exclusively communicates with Reddit via HTTPS, only the HTTPS_PROXY option should be required.

For example, if you have a script named prawbot.py, the HTTPS_PROXY environment variable can be provided on the command line like so:

HTTPS_PROXY=https://localhost:3128 ./prawbot.py