Also I think the rate limit is actually 1 request every 2 seconds

Otherwise try printing the JSONDecodeError

E0602:Undefined variable 'JSONDecodeError'

@Jacob I think it's one per 2 seconds if you are using a dev account. One per 4 seconds if not

ah

would be interesting if we could find a way around this

like send requests from 4 different IP addresses

To print the JSONDecodeError rewrite the `except` statement to be
```python
except JSONDecodeError as e:
print(str(e))
```

Well, another way to look it is, do we *need* every comment? Running the script for an hour probably will yield more comments than I have time to respond to anyway.

@Jacob sure that shouldn't be a problem, you just need 4 proxies. Or just get a dev account, which is free and not too hard to set up. But I think from a development focus that it's more important to get your system working on just the comments you find first, and after that worry about increasing the throughput of the comment stream

@Jacob "do we need every comment" exactly

That can be a future development step, first step is just to get it working sometimes, then work on that part later

Ya, the function of the program is "scan Reddit for pro-immigration comments so we can respond to them" not "scan Reddit for literally every pro-immigration comment"

Yeeep

It's probably more important to get the other functionalities working, which, for now, includes,
1. Suggesting counterarguments
2. Sending out emails

oh, another issue is that is still occasionally posts duplicates

but that's not too huge of a problem

Yeah. I agree 1 and 2 are more important.

1 is just for you to copy and paste the arguments into a lookup table

2 you can use the `mail` library of the standard library

@ThisIsChris it’s not so much a privacy think - I just don’t want to support them

@Deleted User then yeah startpage pays Google a licensing fee so that's still supporting Google. In that case yeah duckduckgo or bing seem good

You could also try gigablast but they're not really pro-free speech, just different answers than Google

@ThisIsChris How do I use a local email server?

server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)

Do I just put 'localhost', 25 in here?

would it be better to just use gmail's server?

it is better to use gmails, just make sure to go to your gmail account security settings and enable the "allow 3rd party apps" option

server.login("youremailusername", "password")

do I just put my email address and password here?

or is there some special server log in?

@ThisIsChris

yep that's it. I forget if you put in email address or just username, try both

@Jacob I checked, username should be the full email-address, the port should be 25, the host is smtp.gmail.com

thanks

https://www.pythonforbeginners.com/code-snippets-source-code/using-python-to-send-email

this example uses 587 as the port

maybe I'll try both

@ThisIsChris
```
smtplib.SMTPNotSupportedError: SMTP AUTH extension not supported by server.
```

I checked "allow less secure apps"

@Jacob https://stackoverflow.com/a/37224235/5834035

@Jacob also this https://stackoverflow.com/a/10147497/5834035