[BUG] module 'praw.reddit' has no attribute BaseTokenManager

[TheSinfulKing]

I cannot use the program at all due to this error right now. It was working previously. Could this be a change to PRAW causing this? Are there any current workarounds?

[DanClowry]

v7.8.0 of PRAW was released today and looks to have broken BDFR. I've been able to fix it on my machine by pinning praw to v7.7.1 in bdfr's pyproject.toml.

E.g. using pipx:

1. Clone the bdfr repo to your computer, cd into the directory, and change to the development branch
2. Edit pyproject.toml and replace praw>=7.2.0 with praw==7.7.1
3. Install bdfr using pipx install -e .

[GarethFreeman]

I just went back to using the old praw version and it seems to be fine. Use that until it gets fixed later.

[LeonChenWenJia]

This fix still isn't working for me. How do I change to the development branch?

[Serene-Arc]

I'm in final exams right now so it will take a couple of weeks before I can give the BDFR any attention. You can install the development version with pip install git+git+https://github.com/Serene-Arc/bulk-downloader-for-reddit.git@development.

[NulledExceptions]

This fix still isn't working for me. How do I change to the development branch?

Temporary workaround pip3 install praw==7.7.1

[scaruslooner]

This fix still isn't working for me. How do I change to the development branch?

Temporary workaround pip3 install praw==7.7.1

This fix it but now its just stuck here:

[ChanwO-o]

for people running another local project that requires bdfr:

1. (optional) Create & activate virtual environment inside your-project
2. Clone bdfr repo to your PC, fix pyproject.toml as described above
3. cd bulk-downloader-for-reddit/
4. pip install .

[patrikalienus]

I just installed bdfr on a Macbook Pro M2 and I'm getting this issue too.

I'm not well-versed in pipx or pythons virtual environments, so the seemingly permanent fix of checking out a specific branch and manually editing the .toml file, isn't something I'm comfortable with.

[Suncatcher]

so what's the actual status of that bug and how to fix it? I installed the bdfr on the latest python on Windows 11, so all the packages must be the latest. My praw is 7.8.1 and prawcore is 2.4.0

PS C:\Users\ussss> pip install bdfr --upgrade
Collecting bdfr
  Downloading bdfr-2.6.2-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (70 kB)
Collecting appdirs>=1.4.4 (from bdfr)
  Downloading appdirs-1.4.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl.metadata (9.0 kB)
Collecting beautifulsoup4>=4.10.0 (from bdfr)
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Requirement already satisfied: click>=8.0.0 in c:\users\ussss\appdata\local\programs\python\python312\lib\site-packages (from bdfr) (8.1.8)
Collecting dict2xml>=1.7.0 (from bdfr)
  Downloading dict2xml-1.7.6-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (6.4 kB)
Collecting praw>=7.2.0 (from bdfr)
  Downloading praw-7.8.1-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (9.4 kB)
Collecting pyyaml>=5.4.1 (from bdfr)
  Downloading PyYAML-6.0.2-cp312-cp312-win_amd64.whl.metadata (2.1 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: requests>=2.25.1 in c:\users\ussss\appdata\local\programs\python\python312\lib\site-packages (from bdfr) (2.32.3)
Collecting yt-dlp>=2022.11.11 (from bdfr)
  Downloading yt_dlp-2025.3.31-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (172 kB)
Collecting soupsieve>1.2 (from beautifulsoup4>=4.10.0->bdfr)
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Collecting typing-extensions>=4.0.0 (from beautifulsoup4>=4.10.0->bdfr)
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Requirement already satisfied: colorama in c:\users\ussss\appdata\local\programs\python\python312\lib\site-packages (from click>=8.0.0->bdfr) (0.4.6)
Collecting prawcore<3,>=2.4 (from praw>=7.2.0->bdfr)
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Collecting update_checker>=0.18 (from praw>=7.2.0->bdfr)
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Collecting websocket-client>=0.54.0 (from praw>=7.2.0->bdfr)
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Requirement already satisfied: charset-normalizer<4,>=2 in c:\users\ussss\appdata\local\programs\python\python312\lib\site-packages (from requests>=2.25.1->bdfr) (3.4.1)
Requirement already satisfied: idna<4,>=2.5 in c:\users\ussss\appdata\local\programs\python\python312\lib\site-packages (from requests>=2.25.1->bdfr) (3.10)
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Requirement already satisfied: certifi>=2017.4.17 in c:\users\ussss\appdata\local\programs\python\python312\lib\site-packages (from requests>=2.25.1->bdfr) (2025.1.31)
Downloading bdfr-2.6.2-py3-none-any.whl (73 kB)
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Downloading beautifulsoup4-4.13.3-py3-none-any.whl (186 kB)
Downloading dict2xml-1.7.6-py3-none-any.whl (8.0 kB)
Downloading praw-7.8.1-py3-none-any.whl (189 kB)
Downloading PyYAML-6.0.2-cp312-cp312-win_amd64.whl (156 kB)
Downloading yt_dlp-2025.3.31-py3-none-any.whl (3.2 MB)
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Downloading prawcore-2.4.0-py3-none-any.whl (17 kB)
Downloading soupsieve-2.6-py3-none-any.whl (36 kB)
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Downloading update_checker-0.18.0-py3-none-any.whl (7.0 kB)
Downloading websocket_client-1.8.0-py3-none-any.whl (58 kB)
Installing collected packages: appdirs, yt-dlp, websocket-client, typing-extensions, soupsieve, pyyaml, dict2xml, update_checker, prawcore, beautifulsoup4, praw, bdfr
Successfully installed appdirs-1.4.4 bdfr-2.6.2 beautifulsoup4-4.13.3 dict2xml-1.7.6 praw-7.8.1 prawcore-2.4.0 pyyaml-6.0.2 soupsieve-2.6 typing-extensions-4.13.1 update_checker-0.18.0 websocket-client-1.8.0 yt-dlp-2025.3.31

should I upgrade or downgrade?

[luckybear992]

so what's the actual status of that bug and how to fix it? I installed the bdfr on the latest python on Windows 11, so all the packages must be the latest. My praw is 7.8.1 and prawcore is 2.4.0

PS C:\Users\ussss> pip install bdfr --upgrade
Collecting bdfr
  Downloading bdfr-2.6.2-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (70 kB)
Collecting appdirs>=1.4.4 (from bdfr)
  Downloading appdirs-1.4.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl.metadata (9.0 kB)
Collecting beautifulsoup4>=4.10.0 (from bdfr)
  Downloading beautifulsoup4-4.13.3-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (3.8 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: click>=8.0.0 in c:\users\ussss\appdata\local\programs\python\python312\lib\site-packages (from bdfr) (8.1.8)
Collecting dict2xml>=1.7.0 (from bdfr)
  Downloading dict2xml-1.7.6-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (6.4 kB)
Collecting praw>=7.2.0 (from bdfr)
  Downloading praw-7.8.1-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (9.4 kB)
Collecting pyyaml>=5.4.1 (from bdfr)
  Downloading PyYAML-6.0.2-cp312-cp312-win_amd64.whl.metadata (2.1 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: requests>=2.25.1 in c:\users\ussss\appdata\local\programs\python\python312\lib\site-packages (from bdfr) (2.32.3)
Collecting yt-dlp>=2022.11.11 (from bdfr)
  Downloading yt_dlp-2025.3.31-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (172 kB)
Collecting soupsieve>1.2 (from beautifulsoup4>=4.10.0->bdfr)
  Downloading soupsieve-2.6-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (4.6 kB)
Collecting typing-extensions>=4.0.0 (from beautifulsoup4>=4.10.0->bdfr)
  Downloading typing_extensions-4.13.1-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (3.0 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: colorama in c:\users\ussss\appdata\local\programs\python\python312\lib\site-packages (from click>=8.0.0->bdfr) (0.4.6)
Collecting prawcore<3,>=2.4 (from praw>=7.2.0->bdfr)
  Downloading prawcore-2.4.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.0 kB)
Collecting update_checker>=0.18 (from praw>=7.2.0->bdfr)
  Downloading update_checker-0.18.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (2.3 kB)
Collecting websocket-client>=0.54.0 (from praw>=7.2.0->bdfr)
  Downloading websocket_client-1.8.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (8.0 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: charset-normalizer<4,>=2 in c:\users\ussss\appdata\local\programs\python\python312\lib\site-packages (from requests>=2.25.1->bdfr) (3.4.1)
Requirement already satisfied: idna<4,>=2.5 in c:\users\ussss\appdata\local\programs\python\python312\lib\site-packages (from requests>=2.25.1->bdfr) (3.10)
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Downloading bdfr-2.6.2-py3-none-any.whl (73 kB)
Downloading appdirs-1.4.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl (9.6 kB)
Downloading beautifulsoup4-4.13.3-py3-none-any.whl (186 kB)
Downloading dict2xml-1.7.6-py3-none-any.whl (8.0 kB)
Downloading praw-7.8.1-py3-none-any.whl (189 kB)
Downloading PyYAML-6.0.2-cp312-cp312-win_amd64.whl (156 kB)
Downloading yt_dlp-2025.3.31-py3-none-any.whl (3.2 MB)
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Downloading prawcore-2.4.0-py3-none-any.whl (17 kB)
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Downloading update_checker-0.18.0-py3-none-any.whl (7.0 kB)
Downloading websocket_client-1.8.0-py3-none-any.whl (58 kB)
Installing collected packages: appdirs, yt-dlp, websocket-client, typing-extensions, soupsieve, pyyaml, dict2xml, update_checker, prawcore, beautifulsoup4, praw, bdfr
Successfully installed appdirs-1.4.4 bdfr-2.6.2 beautifulsoup4-4.13.3 dict2xml-1.7.6 praw-7.8.1 prawcore-2.4.0 pyyaml-6.0.2 soupsieve-2.6 typing-extensions-4.13.1 update_checker-0.18.0 websocket-client-1.8.0 yt-dlp-2025.3.31

should I upgrade or downgrade?

Well if you actually want BDFR to work you'll need to downgrade the praw to 7.7.1

[Suncatcher]

@luckybear992 thanks, that worked. Somehow I overlooked the temporary solution in the above messages

[shiv-pratap2002]

I did not get it solved, I pip installed the old version of praw however its still gibing error. @Suncatcher were u able to make it work can u share your solution?

[Suncatcher]

I did not get it solved, I pip installed the old version of praw however its still gibing error. @Suncatcher were u able to make it work can u share your solution?

pip uninstall praw
pip install --force-reinstall -v "praw==7.7.1"

This error is gone, but now I receive another error https://github.com/Serene-Arc/bulk-downloader-for-reddit/issues/985, that looks like a result of outdated praw. So in the end BDRF is unusable.

[realabxy]

I find that if you use praw 7.7.0 it seems to resolve most of the issues. I would recommend running it with --authenticate for best results.

pip install praw==7.7.0