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How do you get the url from Submission object in PRAW?

I'm using PRAW to create a Reddit bot that submits something once a day. After submitting I want to save the url of the submission and write it to a text file. 

url = r.submit(subreddit, submission_title, text=submission_text)

The above returns a Submission object, but I want the actual url. Is there a way to get the url from a Submission object, or do I need to do something else to get the url?

Solution

  • submission.shortlink (previously .short_link) is what you're looking for, if submission.permalink wasn't good enough.

    reddit = praw.Reddit("Amos")
submission = reddit.get_submission(submission_id="XYZ")
print submission.permalink
>>> www.reddit.com/r/subreddit/comments/XYZ