Get time since comment was posted [Praw]

Question

Is there a way to get the time since a comment was posted using Praw?

I've looked over the docs but couldn't find any mention of it, if there isn't, are there any workarounds to get the time?

Answer 1

I don't know, if you're still looking for an answer. In any case, someone might find this via search engine, so here's an idea:

import praw
import datetime

reddit = praw.Reddit(...)
comment = reddit.comment(id="ctu29cb")

now = int(datetime.datetime.timestamp(datetime.datetime.today()))
then = int(comment.created)
delta = now - then

print("comment has been created with timestamp", then)
print("which means on", datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(then).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'))
print("that was", delta, "seconds or", str(datetime.timedelta(seconds=delta)), "hours ago")

which returns

comment has been created with timestamp 1438924830
which means on 2015-08-07 05:20:30
that was 69533363 seconds or 804 days, 18:49:23 hours ago