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PRAW: How to get a reddit comment object with just the comment ID?

I'm working on a bot where I only have the comment IDs, e.g., t1_asdasd. I don't have access to the parent thread or anything. Can I pull the corresponding comment object with just the comment ID?

Solution

  • This reddit thread shows how to accomplish this through the normal API: http://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/1si9m0/fetching_comments_by_id/

    Here's the code to do this with PRAW:

    import praw
r = praw.Reddit(user_agent="bot by /u/{0}".format("YOUR-USERNAME")) 
submission = r.get_info(thing_id="t1_asdasd")
print(submission)