Python PRAW – Getting the author of a comment in Reddit

23 July 2024

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August 2013 — Created by Jason Krieger. Available for download from www.kriegs.net.

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 author of a comment using PRAW. We will be using the author attribute of the Comment class to fetch the Redditor class of the author of a comment.

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 author attribute 
author = comment.author 
    
print("The name of the author is : " + author.name) 

Output :

The name of the author is : subarno

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 author attribute 
author = comment.author 
    
print("The name of the author is : " + author.name) 