Python PRAW – Getting the ID of a redditor

In Reddit, a redditor is the term given to a user. Each and every redditor has a unique ID provided to them. Here we will see how to fetch the ID of a redditor. We will be using the id attribute of the Redditor class to fetch the ID of a redditor.

Example 1 : Consider the following redditor :

The user name of the redditor is : spez.

# importing the module
import praw

# initialize with appropriate values
client_id = ""
client_secret = ""
username = ""
password = ""
user_agent = ""

# creating an authorized reddit instance
reddit = praw.Reddit(client_id = client_id,
                     client_secret = client_secret,
                     username = username,
                     password = password,
                     user_agent = user_agent)

# the name of the redditor
redditor_name = "spez"

# instantiating the Redditor class
redditor = reddit.redditor(redditor_name)

print("The ID of " + redditor_name + " is : " + redditor.id)

Output :

The ID of prez is : ejpa

Example 2 : Consider the following redditor :

The user name of the redditor is : AutoModerator

# importing the module
import praw

# initialize with appropriate values
client_id = ""
client_secret = ""
username = ""
password = ""
user_agent = ""

# creating an authorized reddit instance
reddit = praw.Reddit(client_id = client_id,
                     client_secret = client_secret,
                     username = username,
                     password = password,
                     user_agent = user_agent)

# the name of the redditor
redditor_name = "AutoModerator"

# instantiating the Redditor class
redditor = reddit.redditor(redditor_name)

print("The ID of " + redditor_name + " is : " + redditor.id)

Output :

The ID of AutoModerator is : 6l4z3