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Client secret is not 27 characters

See original GitHub issue

I am not able to use the cli because it is saying that the client secret should be 27 characters, but mine is 30 characters.

Please enter your client secret. This is the 27-character string that appears when you click "edit" next to your app on this page: https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps

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  • State:closed
  • Created 3 years ago
  • Comments:6 (2 by maintainers)

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not-an-aardvarkcommented, Mar 17, 2021

Thanks for the reminder, I just published v0.3.1 so this should be fixed now.

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ahsan-acommented, Mar 17, 2021

it appears to be 30 characters in the code, but using the npx reddit-oauth-helper command seems to not have been updated. I just cloned the repo, installed the npm modules and ran from my computer

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