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# Logging in PRAW

It is occasionally useful to observe the HTTP requests that PRAW is issuing. To do so you have to configure and enable logging.

Add the following to your code to log everything available:

    import logging

    handler = logging.StreamHandler()
    handler.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
    for logger_name in ("praw", "prawcore"):
        logger = logging.getLogger(logger_name)
        logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
        logger.addHandler(handler)

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

For more information on logging, see `logging.Logger`.