Comment

class praw.models.Comment(reddit: praw.Reddit, id: Optional[str] = None, url: Optional[str] = None, _data: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None)

A class that represents a Reddit comment.

Typical Attributes

Note

This table describes attributes that typically belong to objects of this class. PRAW dynamically provides the attributes that Reddit returns via the API. Since those attributes are subject to change on Reddit’s end, PRAW makes no effort to document any new/removed/changed attributes, other than to instruct you on how to discover what is available. As a result, this table of attributes may not be complete. See Determine Available Attributes of an Object for detailed information.

If you would like to add an attribute to this table, feel free to open a pull request.

Attribute	Description
`author`	Provides an instance of `Redditor`.
`body`	The body of the comment, as Markdown.
`body_html`	The body of the comment, as HTML.
`created_utc`	Time the comment was created, represented in Unix Time.
`distinguished`	Whether or not the comment is distinguished.
`edited`	Whether or not the comment has been edited.
`id`	The ID of the comment.
`is_submitter`	Whether or not the comment author is also the author of the submission.
`link_id`	The submission ID that the comment belongs to.
`parent_id`	The ID of the parent comment (prefixed with `t1_`). If it is a top-level comment, this returns the submission ID instead (prefixed with `t3_`).
`permalink`	A permalink for the comment. `Comment` objects from the inbox have a `context` attribute instead.
`replies`	Provides an instance of `CommentForest`.
`saved`	Whether or not the comment is saved.
`score`	The number of upvotes for the comment.
`stickied`	Whether or not the comment is stickied.
`submission`	Provides an instance of `Submission`. The submission that the comment belongs to.
`subreddit`	Provides an instance of `Subreddit`. The subreddit that the comment belongs to.
`subreddit_id`	The subreddit ID that the comment belongs to.

__init__(reddit: praw.Reddit, id: Optional[str] = None, url: Optional[str] = None, _data: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None): Initialize a Comment instance.

award(*, gild_type: str = 'gid_2', is_anonymous: bool = True, message: str = None) → dict

Award the author of the item.

Parameters

gild_type – Type of award to give. See table below for currently know global award types.
is_anonymous – If True, the authenticated user’s username will not be revealed to the recipient.
message – Message to include with the award.

Returns

A dict containing info similar to what is shown below:

{
    "subreddit_balance": 85260,
    "treatment_tags": [],
    "coins": 8760,
    "gildings": {"gid_1": 0, "gid_2": 1, "gid_3": 0},
    "awarder_karma_received": 4,
    "all_awardings": [
        {
            "giver_coin_reward": 0,
            "subreddit_id": None,
            "is_new": False,
            "days_of_drip_extension": 0,
            "coin_price": 75,
            "id": "award_9663243a-e77f-44cf-abc6-850ead2cd18d",
            "penny_donate": 0,
            "coin_reward": 0,
            "icon_url": "https://www.redditstatic.com/gold/awards/icon/SnooClappingPremium_512.png",
            "days_of_premium": 0,
            "icon_height": 512,
            "tiers_by_required_awardings": None,
            "icon_width": 512,
            "static_icon_width": 512,
            "start_date": None,
            "is_enabled": True,
            "awardings_required_to_grant_benefits": None,
            "description": "For an especially amazing showing.",
            "end_date": None,
            "subreddit_coin_reward": 0,
            "count": 1,
            "static_icon_height": 512,
            "name": "Bravo Grande!",
            "icon_format": "APNG",
            "award_sub_type": "PREMIUM",
            "penny_price": 0,
            "award_type": "global",
            "static_icon_url": "https://i.redd.it/award_images/t5_q0gj4/59e02tmkl4451_BravoGrande-Static.png",
        }
    ],
}

Warning

Requires the authenticated user to own Reddit Coins. Calling this method will consume Reddit Coins.

To award the gold award anonymously do:

comment = reddit.comment("dkk4qjd")
comment.award()

submission = reddit.submission("8dmv8z")
submission.award()

To award the platinum award with the message ‘Nice!’ and reveal your username to the recipient do:

comment = reddit.comment("dkk4qjd")
comment.award(gild_type="gild_3", message="Nice!", is_anonymous=False)

submission = reddit.submission("8dmv8z")
submission.award(gild_type="gild_3", message="Nice!", is_anonymous=False)

block()

Block the user who sent the item.

Note

This method pertains only to objects which were retrieved via the inbox.

Example usage:

comment = reddit.comment("dkk4qjd")
comment.block()

# or, identically:

comment.author.block()

clear_vote()

Clear the authenticated user’s vote on the object.

Note

Votes must be cast by humans. That is, API clients proxying a human’s action one-for-one are OK, but bots deciding how to vote on content or amplifying a human’s vote are not. See the reddit rules for more details on what constitutes vote manipulation. [Ref]

Example usage:

submission = reddit.submission("5or86n")
submission.clear_vote()

comment = reddit.comment("dxolpyc")
comment.clear_vote()

collapse()

Mark the item as collapsed.

Note

This method pertains only to objects which were retrieved via the inbox.

Example usage:

inbox = reddit.inbox()

# select first inbox item and collapse it message = next(inbox)
message.collapse()

See also

uncollapse()

delete()

Delete the object.

Example usage:

comment = reddit.comment("dkk4qjd")
comment.delete()

submission = reddit.submission("8dmv8z")
submission.delete()

disable_inbox_replies()

Disable inbox replies for the item.

Example usage:

comment = reddit.comment("dkk4qjd")
comment.disable_inbox_replies()

submission = reddit.submission("8dmv8z")
submission.disable_inbox_replies()

See also

enable_inbox_replies()

downvote()

Downvote the object.

Note

Votes must be cast by humans. That is, API clients proxying a human’s action one-for-one are OK, but bots deciding how to vote on content or amplifying a human’s vote are not. See the reddit rules for more details on what constitutes vote manipulation. [Ref]

Example usage:

submission = reddit.submission("5or86n")
submission.downvote()

comment = reddit.comment("dxolpyc")
comment.downvote()

See also

upvote()

edit(*, body: str) → Union[praw.models.Comment, praw.models.Submission]

Replace the body of the object with body.

Parameters: body – The Markdown formatted content for the updated object.
Returns: The current instance after updating its attributes.

Example usage:

comment = reddit.comment("dkk4qjd")

# construct the text of an edited comment
# by appending to the old body:
edited_body = comment.body + "Edit: thanks for the gold!"
comment.edit(body=edited_body)

enable_inbox_replies()

Enable inbox replies for the item.

Example usage:

comment = reddit.comment("dkk4qjd")
comment.enable_inbox_replies()

submission = reddit.submission("8dmv8z")
submission.enable_inbox_replies()

See also

disable_inbox_replies()

property fullname: str

Return the object’s fullname.

A fullname is an object’s kind mapping like t3 followed by an underscore and the object’s base36 ID, e.g., t1_c5s96e0.

gild(): Alias for award() to maintain backwards compatibility.

static id_from_url(url: str) → str: Get the ID of a comment from the full URL.

property is_root: bool: Return True when the comment is a top-level comment.

mark_read()

Mark a single inbox item as read.

Note

This method pertains only to objects which were retrieved via the inbox.

Example usage:

inbox = reddit.inbox.unread()

for message in inbox:
    # process unread messages
    ...

See also

mark_unread()

To mark the whole inbox as read with a single network request, use Inbox.mark_all_read()

mark_unread()

Mark the item as unread.

Note

This method pertains only to objects which were retrieved via the inbox.

Example usage:

inbox = reddit.inbox(limit=10)

for message in inbox:
    # process messages
    ...

See also

mark_read()

mod() → praw.models.reddit.comment.CommentModeration

Provide an instance of CommentModeration.

Example usage:

comment = reddit.comment("dkk4qjd")
comment.mod.approve()

parent() → Union[Comment, praw.models.Submission]

Return the parent of the comment.

The returned parent will be an instance of either Comment, or Submission.

If this comment was obtained through a Submission, then its entire ancestry should be immediately available, requiring no extra network requests. However, if this comment was obtained through other means, e.g., reddit.comment("COMMENT_ID"), or reddit.inbox.comment_replies, then the returned parent may be a lazy instance of either Comment, or Submission.

Lazy comment example:

comment = reddit.comment("cklhv0f")
parent = comment.parent()
# `replies` is empty until the comment is refreshed
print(parent.replies)  # Output: []
parent.refresh()
print(parent.replies)  # Output is at least: [Comment(id="cklhv0f")]

Warning

Successive calls to parent() may result in a network request per call when the comment is not obtained through a Submission. See below for an example of how to minimize requests.

If you have a deeply nested comment and wish to most efficiently discover its top-most Comment ancestor you can chain successive calls to parent() with calls to refresh() at every 9 levels. For example:

comment = reddit.comment("dkk4qjd")
ancestor = comment
refresh_counter = 0
while not ancestor.is_root:
    ancestor = ancestor.parent()
    if refresh_counter % 9 == 0:
        ancestor.refresh()
    refresh_counter += 1
print(f"Top-most Ancestor: {ancestor}")

The above code should result in 5 network requests to Reddit. Without the calls to refresh() it would make at least 31 network requests.

classmethod parse(data: Dict[str, Any], reddit: praw.Reddit) → Any

Return an instance of cls from data.

Parameters

data – The structured data.
reddit – An instance of Reddit.

refresh()

Refresh the comment’s attributes.

If using Reddit.comment() this method must be called in order to obtain the comment’s replies.

Example usage:

comment = reddit.comment("dkk4qjd")
comment.refresh()

property replies: praw.models.comment_forest.CommentForest

Provide an instance of CommentForest.

This property may return an empty list if the comment has not been refreshed with refresh()

Sort order and reply limit can be set with the reply_sort and reply_limit attributes before replies are fetched, including any call to refresh():

comment.reply_sort = "new"
comment.refresh()
replies = comment.replies

Note

The appropriate values for reply_sort include "confidence", "controversial", "new", "old", "q&a", and "top".

reply(*, body: str)

Reply to the object.

Parameters: body – The Markdown formatted content for a comment.
Returns: A Comment object for the newly created comment or None if Reddit doesn’t provide one.
Raises: prawcore.exceptions.Forbidden when attempting to reply to some items, such as locked submissions/comments or non-replyable messages.

A None value can be returned if the target is a comment or submission in a quarantined subreddit and the authenticated user has not opt-ed into viewing the content. When this happens the comment will be successfully created on Reddit and can be retried by drawing the comment from the user’s comment history.

Example usage:

submission = reddit.submission("5or86n")
submission.reply("reply")

comment = reddit.comment("dxolpyc")
comment.reply("reply")

report(reason: str)

Report this object to the moderators of its subreddit.

Parameters: reason – The reason for reporting.
Raises: RedditAPIException if reason is longer than 100 characters.

Example usage:

submission = reddit.submission("5or86n")
submission.report("report reason")

comment = reddit.comment("dxolpyc")
comment.report("report reason")

save(*, category: Optional[str] = None)

Save the object.

Parameters: category – The category to save to. If the authenticated user does not have Reddit Premium this value is ignored by Reddit (default: None).

Example usage:

submission = reddit.submission("5or86n")
submission.save(category="view later")

comment = reddit.comment("dxolpyc")
comment.save()

See also

unsave()

property submission: praw.models.Submission: Return the Submission object this comment belongs to.

unblock_subreddit()

Unblock a subreddit.

Note

This method pertains only to objects which were retrieved via the inbox.

For example, to unblock all blocked subreddits that you can find by going through your inbox:

from praw.models import SubredditMessage

subs = set()
for item in reddit.inbox.messages(limit=None):
    if isinstance(item, SubredditMessage):
        if (
            item.subject == "[message from blocked subreddit]"
            and str(item.subreddit) not in subs
        ):
            item.unblock_subreddit()
            subs.add(str(item.subreddit))

uncollapse()

Mark the item as uncollapsed.

Note

This method pertains only to objects which were retrieved via the inbox.

Example usage:

inbox = reddit.inbox()

# select first inbox item and uncollapse it
message = next(inbox)
message.uncollapse()

See also

collapse()

unsave()

Unsave the object.

Example usage:

submission = reddit.submission("5or86n")
submission.unsave()

comment = reddit.comment("dxolpyc")
comment.unsave()

See also

save()

upvote()

Upvote the object.

Note

Votes must be cast by humans. That is, API clients proxying a human’s action one-for-one are OK, but bots deciding how to vote on content or amplifying a human’s vote are not. See the reddit rules for more details on what constitutes vote manipulation. [Ref]

Example usage:

submission = reddit.submission("5or86n")
submission.upvote()

comment = reddit.comment("dxolpyc")
comment.upvote()

See also

downvote()