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Using PRAW to call Reddit API. Need help interpreting the created datetime returned

After hovering on the "submitted 2 months ago" I can get the created date of the post on reddit UI.

In my case, the post I'm looking at has this datetime: Fri Dec 18 02:06:06 2015 UTC

But when I call the reddit API using praw I'm getting this in the created_utc field: 1450404366.0

I'm not able to translate "Fri Dec 18 02:06:06 2015 UTC" to "1450404366.0"

Please help!

Solution

  • So what reddit is giving you is a UNIX TIMESTAMP which is basically the seconds since Jan 01 1970. (UTC) that needs to be converted into a human-readable date time setup.

    I would suggest using the datatime module in python:

    example usage:

    import datetime
print(
    datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(
        int("1284101485")
    ).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
)

    Hope this helps!