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
# 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) print("Score before downvoting : " + str(comment.score)) # downvoting the comment comment.downvote() print("Score after downvoting : " + str(comment.score)) |
Output :
Score before downvoting: 25 Score after downvoting: 24
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) print("Score before downvoting : " + str(comment.score)) # downvoting the comment comment.downvote() print("Score after downvoting : " + str(comment.score)) |
Output :
Score before downvoting : 4 Score after downvoting : 2
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