Python PRAW – Getting the time when a redditor created their account
In Reddit, a redditor is the term given to a user. Here we will see how to fetch the exact time when a redditor created their account. We will be using the created_utc
attribute of the Redditor
class to fetch the Unix time when the redditor created their account.
Example 1 : Consider the following redditor :
The user name of the redditor is : spez.
# importing the module import praw from datetime import datetime # 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 name of the redditor redditor_name = "spez" # instantiating the Redditor class redditor = reddit.redditor(redditor_name) # fetching the Unix time of creation unix_time = redditor.created_utc print ( "The " + redditor_name + " account was created on Unix time : " + str (unix_time)) # converting the Unix time print ( "The " + redditor_name + " account was created on : " + str (datetime.fromtimestamp(unix_time))) |
Output :
The spez account was created on Unix time : 1118030400.0 The spez account was created on : 2005-06-06 09:30:00
Example 2 : Consider the following redditor :
The user name of the redditor is : AutoModerator
# importing the module import praw from datetime import datetime # 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 name of the redditor redditor_name = "AutoModerator" # instantiating the Redditor class redditor = reddit.redditor(redditor_name) # fetching the Unix time of creation unix_time = redditor.created_utc print ( "The " + redditor_name + " account was created on Unix time : " + str (unix_time)) # converting the Unix time print ( "The " + redditor_name + " account was created on : " + str (datetime.fromtimestamp(unix_time))) |
Output :
The AutoModerator account was created on Unix time : 1325741068.0 The AutoModerator account was created on : 2012-01-05 10:54:28
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