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 parent ID of a comment using PRAW. We will be using the is_submitter attribute of the Comment class to fetch the parent ID of a comment. If the comment is top-level then the ID of the submission is fetched with the prefix “t3_”, and if the comment has a parent comment then the ID of the parent comment is fetched with the prefix “t1_”.
Example 1: Consider the following comment:
The ID of the comment is: fvib7aw
# 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 ID of the comment comment_id = "fvib7aw"
# instantiating the Comment class comment = reddit.comment(comment_id)
# fetching the parent_id attribute parent_id = comment.parent_id
print ("The parent ID of the comment is : " + parent_id)
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Output :
The parent ID of the comment is : t3_hczt0c
Example 2: Consider the following comment:
The ID of the comment is: fv9qvgo
# 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 ID of the comment comment_id = "fv9qvgo"
# instantiating the Comment class comment = reddit.comment(comment_id)
# fetching the parent_id attribute parent_id = comment.parent_id
print ("The parent ID of the comment is : " + parent_id)
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Output :
The parent ID of the comment is : t1_fv97c8n