[Feature suggestion] oauth login about rtv

[michael-lazar]

I'm not too familiar with oauth but how would this work with an open source project? I can't force everybody to go to reddit and sign up for a developer key.

[Brobin]

I haven't touched Oauth that much in Python, but here is an open source project, gcalcli that uses Google Oauth.

[michael-lazar]

Looks like they slap it right in the code...

__API_CLIENT_ID__ = '232867676714.apps.googleusercontent.com'
__API_CLIENT_SECRET__ = 'Omited'

[Brobin]

Yeah...that's not how you're supposed to do it.
Everyone on stackoverflow suggests using a config file, which would require each user to supply their own keys.

[parkerlreed]

I was thinking like how newer mobile clients do it. They just drop to a webview to login to reddit. That way you can manage application access from within reddit.

[michael-lazar]

Reddit is deprecating cookie-based authentication on August 3rd, so this is now a huge priority. Even unauthenticated users will be throttled.

https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/2ujhkr/important_api_licensing_terms_clarified/

[parkerlreed]

Thanks for the status update.

[professorjamesmoriarty]

@michael-lazar so atm it wants the index.html file from ~/.config/rtv/templates/templates/index.html
It would be far more ideal and portable to have this read from /usr/share/rtv/templates/index.html or similar. So that it can be updated accordingly from various means of packaging. (same method used in setup.py to include manpage)

[michael-lazar]

@shaggytwodope what I ended up doing was moving the templates folder back inside of the project. That allowed me to configure setuptools to add the index.html to /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rtv/templates/. I would have preferred to keep the templates/ folder at the root of the project but I just couldn't get it to work without some giant workaround in setuptools.

[michael-lazar]

This is finally released as of v1.6!