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PRAW raises prawcore.exceptions.BadRequest when attempting to call send_removal_message()

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Issue Description

Any time I try to use send_removal_message(), PRAW gives me a 400 error. Looking at the official Reddit API, it appears the endpoints for that function have been removed.

Attempt:

PS C:\Users\Michael\nobackup\Code\Projects\myproject> py
Python 3.7.0 (v3.7.0:1bf9cc5093, Jun 27 2018, 04:06:47) [MSC v.1914 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import praw
>>> reddit = praw.Reddit(user_agent='[my user agent]')
>>> sub = reddit.comment('[a comment I have the ability to moderate]')
>>> sub
Comment(id='[same as before]')
>>> sub.body
'Test comment'
>>> sub.mod
<praw.models.reddit.comment.CommentModeration object at 0x00F20EF0>
>>> sub.mod.send_removal_message
<bound method ThingModerationMixin.send_removal_message of <praw.models.reddit.comment.CommentModeration object at 0x00F20EF0>>
>>> sub.mod.send_removal_message('hi')
{"item_id": ["t1_ew39cg7"], "message": "hi", "title": "ignored", "type": "public"}  # I added this for debugging
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\Michael\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\praw\models\reddit\mixins\__init__.py", line 174, in send_removal_message
    return self.thing._reddit.post(url, data={"json": dumps(data)}) or None
  File "C:\Users\Michael\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\praw\reddit.py", line 523, in post
    "POST", path, data=data or {}, files=files, params=params
  File "C:\Users\Michael\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\praw\reddit.py", line 577, in request
    method, path, data=data, files=files, params=params
  File "C:\Users\Michael\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\prawcore\sessions.py", line 185, in request
    params=params, url=url)
  File "C:\Users\Michael\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\prawcore\sessions.py", line 130, in _request_with_retries
    raise self.STATUS_EXCEPTIONS[response.status_code](response)
prawcore.exceptions.BadRequest: received 400 HTTP response
>>>

System Information

PRAW Version: 6.3.1
Python Version: 3.7.0
Operating System: Windows 10 x64

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 4 years ago
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

3reactions

bboecommented, Jan 5, 2020

I’m sorry, I totally lost track of this.

It’s not a problem. Life happens 😃.

1reaction

michaelkolbercommented, Aug 9, 2019

Sure, I’d be happy to.

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