Error while authorizing: did not contain required parameter "access_token" about draw

[StefanLobbenmeier]

Hi :) I think there are some parameters missing. Let me check my code

[StefanLobbenmeier]

Future<Reddit> login(String state) async {
    Reddit _reddit;
    final userAgent = randomAlphaNumeric(30);

    // Create a `Reddit` instance using a configuration file in the
    // current directory.
    _reddit = Reddit.createWebFlowInstance(
      clientId: clientId,
      clientSecret: "", // Yes, leave it empty
      userAgent: userAgent,
      redirectUri: Uri.parse(redirectUrl),
    );
    //
    //  // Build the URL used for authentication. See `WebAuthenticator`
    //  // documentation for parameters.
    final authUrl = _reddit.auth.url(
      ['*'],
      state,
      compactLogin: true,
    );
    print(authUrl);
    print("state: $state");
    await openLoginPageInBrowser(authUrl.toString());
    return _reddit;
  }

[StefanLobbenmeier]

This is the Code I Uwe (and just tested). However youre using the newer api and I guess you should keep that. What I missed in your code was the state

[StefanLobbenmeier]

Actually never mind, that part looks correct. My next guess is that your way of extracting the code did not work, did you check the code with a print?

[StefanLobbenmeier]

The other reason I could think of is that the reddit api does not accept foobar as it is not random enough / used by too many people

[ThatsEli]

I managed to fix it by using a different useragent as you suggested. Somehow that fixed it, I don't know exactly why that mistake would throw the error I had, but who knows 🤔 Dankeschön für die Hilfe ;) (Thank you for the help!)

[StefanLobbenmeier]

@bkonyi should we change this in the Guide? It seems that it was not clear that user_agent needs to be random

[bkonyi]

@bkonyi should we change this in the Guide? It seems that it was not clear that user_agent needs to be random

Thanks for helping @ThatsEli debug @StefanLobbenmeier! I really appreciate your contributions :)

Yes, we should probably add a commonly asked questions section to the README and cover this there. I'm not certain the user-agent needs to be random, but it needs to be something relatively unique (I'm sure foobar is used quite frequently, which is likely why @ThatsEli was running into issues. Us programmers are too damn predictable, I guess :-) ).