Python PRAW – Getting the time when a comment was posted on Reddit
Last Updated :
26 Jun, 2020
In Reddit, we can post a comment to any submission, we can also comment on a comment to create a thread of comments. Here we will see how to fetch the exact time when a comment was posted using PRAW. We will be using the created_utc
attribute of the Comment
class to fetch the Unix time when the comment was posted.
Example 1 : Consider the following comment :
The ID of the comment is : fvib7aw
import praw
from datetime import datetime
client_id = ""
client_secret = ""
username = ""
password = ""
user_agent = ""
reddit = praw.Reddit(client_id = client_id,
client_secret = client_secret,
username = username,
password = password,
user_agent = user_agent)
comment_id = "fvib7aw"
comment = reddit.comment(comment_id)
unix_time = comment.created_utc
print ( "The comment was posted on Unix time : " +
str (unix_time))
print ( "The comment was posted on : " +
str (datetime.fromtimestamp(unix_time)))
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Output :
The comment was posted on Unix time : 1592712950.0
The comment was posted on : 2020-06-21 09:45:50
Example 2 : Consider the following comment:
The ID of the comment is : fv9qvgo
import praw
from datetime import datetime
client_id = ""
client_secret = ""
username = ""
password = ""
user_agent = ""
reddit = praw.Reddit(client_id = client_id,
client_secret = client_secret,
username = username,
password = password,
user_agent = user_agent)
comment_id = "fv9qvgo"
comment = reddit.comment(comment_id)
unix_time = comment.created_utc
print ( "The comment was posted on Unix time : " +
str (unix_time))
print ( "The comment was posted on : " +
str (datetime.fromtimestamp(unix_time)))
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Output :
The comment was posted on Unix time : 1592513850.0
The comment was posted on : 2020-06-19 02:27:30
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