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Configuring PRAW

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   configuration/options

Configuration options can be provided to PRAW in one of three ways:

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   configuration/prawini
   configuration/reddit_initialization
   configuration/environment_variables

Environment variables have the highest priority, followed by keyword arguments to :class:`.Reddit`, and finally settings in praw.ini files.

Using an HTTP or HTTPS proxy with PRAW

PRAW internally relies upon the requests package to handle HTTP requests. Requests supports use of HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY environment variables in order to proxy HTTP and HTTPS requests respectively [ref].

Given that PRAW exclusively communicates with Reddit via HTTPS, only the HTTPS_PROXY option should be required.

For example, if you have a script named prawbot.py, the HTTPS_PROXY environment variable can be provided on the command line like so:

HTTPS_PROXY=https://localhost:3128 ./prawbot.py