Reddit's public JSON endpoint returns 403 to requests carrying the
generic User-Agent and minimal header set urllib defaults to, while
matching curl requests succeed. Switch to a current-Chrome User-Agent
and add Accept-Language / Accept-Encoding / Connection headers so the
fingerprint matches a normal browser. Reddit now serves gzip when
Accept-Encoding includes it, so decompress the body before JSON parse.
Update the user-agent assertion in tests/test_reddit_public.py to match
the new browser-like string. Closes#199.
Co-authored-by: Franco Carballar <francocarballar@gmail.com>
str.lstrip("r/") treats its argument as a character set, stripping
leading r and / repeatedly. Subreddits starting with 'r' (e.g. r/robotics,
r/ruby) were silently mangled to 'obotics' / 'uby'. Replace with
str.removeprefix("r/") at all four call sites. Python 3.9+ pattern is
safe here — project requires 3.12. Closes#288.
Co-authored-by: Alex Key <alexanderkey0508@gmail.com>
Trevin Chow