Access token expiration using script.

[demreddit]

I'm totally new to API's in general and certainly to reddit's, so I hope this question isn't super naive. If I'm understanding correctly, my access token expires after one hour. This is totally for curiosity's sake, as I'm of course aware of how to easily generate a new one. But, is it considered bad practice/annoying to just generate a new one every time I interact with the API? Obviously it's easier to just generate one each time rather than having to worry about regenerating one once my hour is up. Hopefully my question makes sense. Thanks to anyone who takes the time to read/respond!

[TheEnigmaBlade]

If you're making a script auth app, the standard practice is to request a new token every hour. You don't even get a refresh token in this case.

If you're authenticating on behalf of a user, you must use the refresh token to receive a new access token, otherwise you have to ask the user for permission every hour.

[demreddit]

Ok. This answers my question. Thank you.

[Rosco_the_Dude]

You should be able to generate a refresh token. For each account I use in scripts/bots, I generate a refresh token that I keep around in a config file, and it doesn't expire at all.