Python PRAW – Downvoting a comment in 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. We can either upvote or downvote a comment. Here we will see how to downvote a comment using PRAW. We will be using the downvote()
method of the Comment
class to downvote a comment.
downvote()
Syntax : downvote()
Parameters : None
Returns : Nothing
Example 1 : Consider the following comment :
The ID of the comment is : fvib7aw
import praw
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)
print ( "Score before downvoting : " + str (comment.score))
comment.downvote()
print ( "Score after downvoting : " + str (comment.score))
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Output :
Score before downvoting: 25
Score after downvoting: 24
Example 2 : Consider the following comment:
The ID of the comment is : fv9qvgo
import praw
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)
print ( "Score before downvoting : " + str (comment.score))
comment.downvote()
print ( "Score after downvoting : " + str (comment.score))
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Output :
Score before downvoting : 4
Score after downvoting : 2
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