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
# importing the module import praw from datetime import datetime # 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 Unix time unix_time = comment.created_utc print("The comment was posted on Unix time : " + str(unix_time)) # converting the Unix time print("The comment was posted on : " + str(datetime.fromtimestamp(unix_time))) |
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
# importing the module import praw from datetime import datetime # 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 Unix time unix_time = comment.created_utc print("The comment was posted on Unix time : " + str(unix_time)) # converting the Unix time print("The comment was posted on : " + str(datetime.fromtimestamp(unix_time))) |
Output :
The comment was posted on Unix time : 1592513850.0 The comment was posted on : 2020-06-19 02:27:30
