Is there a way to track API calls through PRAW?

Question

I'm using PRAW in my Python script and am trying to figure out a way to track the number of API calls that it has made. Is there a way to do this?

Regards.

Answer 1

You can enable logging in PRAW : https://praw.readthedocs.io/en/stable/getting_started/logging.html

From that page:

When properly configured, HTTP requests that are issued should produce output similar to the following:

Fetching: GET https://oauth.reddit.com/api/v1/me
Data: None
Params: {'raw_json': 1}
Response: 200 (876 bytes)

Furthermore, any API ratelimits from POST actions that are handled will produce a log entry with a message similar to the following message:

Rate limit hit, sleeping for 5.5 seconds

Simplest thing you could do is just grep -c over the log looking for Fetching. Or, of course, wire your application to more sophisticated monitoring tools.