Change Log

PRAW follows semantic versioning.

7.6.0 (2022/05/10)

Added

• pin() to manage pinned submissions on the authenticated user’s profile.

• update_display_layout() to update the display layout of posts in a Collection.

• SubredditCollectionsModeration.create() keyword argument display_layout for specifying a display layout when creating a Collection.

• parent to get the parent of a Message.

• ModNote to represent a moderator note.

• ModNote.delete() to delete a single moderator note.

• RedditModNotes to interact with moderator notes from a Reddit instance. This provides the ability to create and fetch notes for one or more redditors from one or more subreddits.

• RedditorModNotes to interact with moderator notes from a Redditor instance.

• RedditorModNotes.subreddits() to obtain moderator notes from multiple subreddits for a single redditor.

• SubredditModNotes to interact with moderator notes from a Subreddit instance.

• SubredditModNotes.redditors() to obtain moderator notes for multiple redditors from a single subreddit.

• create() to create a moderator note.

• Redditor.notes to interact with RedditorModNotes.

• SubredditModeration.notes to interact with SubredditModNotes.

• create_note() create a moderator note from a Comment or Submission.

• author_notes() to view the moderator notes for the author of a Comment or Submission.

Changed

• Drop support for Python 3.6, which is end-of-life on 2021-12-23.

• conversations() now returns a ListingGenerator allowing you to page through more than 100 conversations.

Deprecated

• The after argument for conversations() will now have to be included in params keyword argument.

• Positional keyword arguments for applicable functions and methods. Starting with PRAW 8, most functions and methods will no longer support positional arguments. It will encourage more explicit argument passing, enable arguments to be sorted alphabetically, and prevent breaking changes when adding new arguments to existing methods.

7.5.0 (2021/11/13)

Added

• Log a warning if a submission’s comment_sort attribute is updated after the submission has already been fetched and a warn_comment_sort config setting to turn off the warning.

• user_selectable() to get available subreddit link flairs.

• Automatic RateLimit handling will support errors with millisecond resolution.

Fixed

• An import error when using PRAW in environments where libsqlite3-dev is needed to utilize the sqlite3 builtin.

• Fixed bug where some keyword arguments that are passed to Draft.submit() would not have an effect.

7.4.0 (2021/07/30)

Added

• discussions() to obtain site-wide link submissions that link to the WikiPage.

• revert() to revert a WikiPage to a specified revision.

• Inbox.mark_all_read() to mark all messages as read with one API call.

• unblock_subreddit() to unblock a subreddit.

• update_crowd_control_level() to update the crowd control level of a post.

• moderator_subreddits(), which returns information about the subreddits that the authenticated user moderates, has been restored.

• The configuration setting refresh_token has been added back. See https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/olk5e6/followup_oauth2_api_changes_regarding_refresh/ for more info.

• Draft to represent a submission draft.

• Draft.delete() to delete drafts.

• Draft.submit() to submit drafts.

• Draft.update() to modify drafts.

• DraftHelper to fetch or create drafts on new Reddit.

• DraftList to represent a list of Draft objects.

Changed

• Reddit.delete() now accepts the params parameter.

Deprecated

• Reddit keyword argument token_manager.

7.3.0 (2021/06/17)

Added

• UserSubreddit for the subreddit attribute of Redditor.

• username_available() checks if a username is available.

• trusted() to retrieve a RedditorList of trusted users.

• trust() to add a user to the trusted list.

• distrust() to remove a user from the trusted list.

• SQLiteTokenManager (may not work on Windows).

Changed

• moderated() will now objectify all data returned from the API.

• The wiki_edit endpoint has been changed from r/{subreddit}/api/wiki/edit/ to r/{subreddit}/api/wiki/edit.

• Redditor.block() no longer needs to retrieve a user’s fullname.

Deprecated

• The subreddit attribute of Redditor is no longer a dict.

• Legacy modmail is slated for deprecation by Reddit in June 2021. See https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/mar9ha/even_more_modmail_improvements/ for more info.

Fixed

• Fixed bug where WikiPage.edit() and SubredditWiki.create() would fail if passed content and reason parameters that produced a request with a body greater than 500 KiB, even when the parameters did not exceed their respective permitted maximum lengths.

• Fixed bug where request() could not handle instances of BadRequests when the JSON data contained only the keys “reason” and “message”.

• Fixed bug where request() could not handle instances of BadRequests when the response did not contain valid JSON data.

• Fixed bug where fullname() sometimes returned the wrong fullname.

7.2.0 (2021/02/24)

Added

• Reddit keyword argument token_manager.

• FileTokenManager and its parent abstract class BaseTokenManager.

Deprecated

• The configuration setting refresh_token is deprecated and its use will result in a DeprecationWarning. This deprecation applies in all ways of setting configuration values, i.e., via praw.ini, as a keyword argument when initializing an instance of Reddit, and via the PRAW_REFRESH_TOKEN environment variable. To be prepared for PRAW 8, use the new Reddit keyword argument token_manager. See Working with Refresh Tokens in PRAW’s documentation for an example.

• me() will no longer return None when called in read_only mode starting in PRAW 8. A DeprecationWarning will be issued. To switch forward to the PRAW 8 behavior set praw8_raise_exception_on_me=True in your Reddit call.

7.1.4 (2021/02/07)

Fixed

• Asynchronous check will no longer fail in Python 3.6 multithreading edge cases.

7.1.3 (2021/02/05)

Changed

• Asynchronous check will no longer occur when in a Jupyter notebook.

7.1.2 (2021/02/03)

Fixed

• Asynchronous check would not work on Python 3.6 as get_running_loop() only exists on Python 3.7+.

7.1.1 (2021/02/02)

Added

• Add method Subreddits.premium() to reflect the naming change in Reddit’s API.

• Ability to submit image galleries with submit_gallery().

• Ability to pass a gallery url to Reddit.submission().

• Ability to specify modmail mute duration.

• Add method invited() to get invited moderators of a subreddit.

• Ability to submit text/self posts with inline media.

• Add method Submission.award() and Comment.award() with the ability to specify type of award, anonymity, and message when awarding a submission or comment.

• Ability to specify subreddits by name using the subreddits parameter in Reddit.info().

• A check to see if PRAW is running in an asynchronous environment and will advise the user to use Async PRAW. This also adds a configuration option to disable the check.

Changed

• Drop support for Python 3.5, which is end-of-life on 2020-09-13.

• BoundedSet will now utilize a Last-Recently-Used (LRU) storing mechanism, which will change the order in which elements are removed from the set.

• Improved submit_image() and submit_video() performance in slow network environments by removing a race condition when establishing a websocket connection.

Deprecated

• Subreddits.gold() is superseded by Subreddits.premium().

• Submission.gild() is superseded by Submission.award().

• Comment.gild() is superseded by Comment.award().

Fixed

• An issue where leaving as a moderator fails if you are using token auth.

• An issue where an incorrect error was being raised due to invalid submission urls.

• Some cases where streams yield the same item multiple times. This cannot be prevented in every case.

7.1.0 (2020/06/22)

Added

• Rule to represent one rule of a subreddit.

• SubredditRules to get and add rules.

• Ability to submit polls with submit_poll().

• PollData and PollOption.

• Ability to view poll data and poll options via the .poll_data attribute on poll submissions.

• Add method delete() to Reddit class to support HTTP DELETE requests.

• Added CalendarConfiguration to represent the configuration of a Calendar widget.

• Added Hover to represent the hover state of a Button.

• Added Styles to represent widget styling information.

• Ability to stream live thread updates via new class LiveThreadStream with method updates().

Changed

• RemovalReason.update()’s parameters are now optional.

• SubredditRemovalReasons.__getitem__() now takes integers and slices to get removal reasons from the list of reasons as returned by Reddit.

Deprecated

• WebSocketException.original_exception is deprecated and slated for removal in PRAW 8.0.

Fixed

• An issue where certain subreddit settings could not be set through SubredditModeration.update(), such as welcome_message_enabled and welcome_message_text. This change also removes the need for PRAW to track current subreddit settings and send unmodified ones in the update request.

• Instances of BadRequests captured by PRAW that do not contain any detailed JSON data are re-raised as the original BadRequest.

• submit_image() and submit_video() will throw MediaPostFailed when Reddit fails to post an image or video post.

7.0.0 (2020/04/24)

Added

• config_interpolation parameter for Reddit supporting basic and extended modes.

• Add partial_redditors() that returns lightweight redditor objects that contain only a few fields. This is useful for resolving Redditor IDs to their usernames in bulk.

• User.friends() has a new parameter user that takes either an instance of Redditor or a string containing a redditor name and returns an instance of Redditor if the authenticated user is friends with the user, otherwise throws an exception.

• SubmissionModeration.flair() has the parameter flair_template_id for applying flairs with template IDs.

• Emoji.update() supports modifying an emoji’s permissions.

• SubredditEmoji.add() now supports optionally passing booleans to set an emoji’s permissions upon upload.

• Methods SubredditLinkFlairTemplates.update() and SubredditRedditorFlairTemplates.update() contain a new parameter, fetch, that toggles the automatic fetching of existing data from Reddit. It is set to True by default.

• Values in methods SubredditLinkFlairTemplates.update() and SubredditRedditorFlairTemplates.update() that are left as the defaults will no longer be over-written if the fetch parameter is set to True, but will fill in existing values for the flair template.

• The parameter text for methods SubredditLinkFlairTemplates.update() and SubredditRedditorFlairTemplates.update() is no longer required.

• There is a new method, post_requirements(), to fetch a subreddit’s post requirements.

• Method SubmissionModeration.sticky() will now ignore the Conflict exception generated by trying to sticky the same post multiple times.

• A new method CommentModeration.show() will uncollapse a comment that was collapsed because of Crowd Control

• Methods submit_image() and submit_video() will throw TooLargeMediaException if the submitted media is rejected by Reddit due to the size of the media.

• Class Reddit has an attribute, validate_on_submit, that can be set after class initialization that causes methods submit(), submit_image(), submit_video(), and Submission.edit() to check that the submission matches a subreddit’s post validation rules. This attribute will be functionally useless once Reddit implements their change. This attribute will be deprecated on the next release after Reddit’s change, and will be removed on the next major release after Reddit’s change.

Warning

In May-June 2020, Reddit will force all submissions to run through a subreddit’s validation rules.

• Introduced a data class, RedditErrorItem, to represent an individual error item returned from Reddit.

• Class RedditAPIException now serves as a container for the RedditErrorItems. You can access the items by doing RedditAPIException.items, which returns a list.

• APIException is an alias to RedditAPIException.

• Parameter discussion_type to methods submit(), submit_image(), and submit_video() to support submitting as a live discussion (set to "CHAT").

• Instances of Trophy can be compared for equality with each other.

• Reddit has a new configurable parameter, timeout. This defaults to 16 seconds. It controls how long PRAW will wait for a response before throwing an exception.

• PRAW now handles ratelimit errors returned as instances of RedditAPIException.

• Reddit has one new parameter, ratelimit_seconds . The parameter configures the maximum amount of seconds to catch ratelimits for. It defaults to 5 seconds when not specified.

Changed

• prawcore.BadRequest should no longer be raised. Instead, a more useful RedditAPIException instance will be raised.

• Set the default comment sort to confidence instead of best because it turns out best isn’t actually the correct value for the parameter.

Deprecated

• APIException is deprecated and slated for removal in PRAW 8.0.

Fixed

• SubredditFlair.update() will not error out when the flair text contains quote marks.

Removed

• Converting APIException to string will no longer escape unicode characters.

• Module praw.models.modaction no longer exists. Please use the module praw.models.mod_action, or directly import ModAction from praw.models.

• Methods SubredditLinkFlairTemplates.update() and SubredditRedditorFlairTemplates.update() will no longer create flairs that are using an invalid template id, but instead throw a InvalidFlairTemplateID.

• Method reddit.user.moderator_subreddits has been removed. Please use moderated() instead.

6.5.1 (2020/01/07)

Fixed

• Removed usages of NoReturn that caused PRAW to fail due to ImportError in Python <3.5.4 and <3.6.2.

6.5.0 (2020/01/05)

Added

• set_original_content() supports marking a submission as original content.

• unset_original_content() supports unmarking a submission as original content.

• moderated() to get a list of a redditor’s moderated subreddits.

• Parameter without_websockets to submit_image() and submit_video() to submit without using WebSockets.

• Reddit.redditor() supports fullname param to fetch a Redditor by the fullname instead of name. Redditor constructor now also has fullname param.

• Add RemovalReason and SubredditRemovalReasons to work with removal reasons

• Attribute removal_reasons to SubredditModeration to interact with new removal reason classes

• Parameters mod_note and reason_id to remove() to optionally apply a removal reason on removal

• Add SubredditModerationStream to enable moderation streams

• Attribute stream to SubredditModeration to interact with new moderation streams

• Add edited() to allow streaming of SubredditModeration.edited()

• Add log() to allow streaming of SubredditModeration.log()

• Add modmail_conversations() to allow streaming of Modmail.conversations()

• Add modqueue() to allow streaming of SubredditModeration.modqueue()

• Add reports() to allow streaming of SubredditModeration.reports()

• Add spam() to allow streaming of SubredditModeration.spam()

• Add unmoderated() to allow streaming of SubredditModeration.unmoderated()

• Add unread() to allow streaming of SubredditModeration.unread()

• Parameter exclude_before to stream_generator() to allow modmail_conversations() to work

• Parameters allowable_content and max_emojis to add(), add(), and update(), as well as its child classes.

Deprecated

• Method reddit.user.moderator_subreddits as moderated() provides more functionality.

• The file for ModActions (praw/models/modaction.py) has been moved to praw/models/mod_action.py and the previous has been deprecated.

Expected Changes

• The behavior of APIException will no longer unicode-escape strings in the next minor release.

6.4.0 (2019/09/21)

Added

• crosspost() support parameter flair_id to flair the submission immediately upon crossposting.

• crosspost() support parameter flair_text to set a custom text to the flair immediately upon crossposting.

• crosspost() support parameter nsfw to mark the submission NSFW immediately upon crossposting.

• crosspost() support parameter spoiler to mark the submission as a spoiler immediately upon crossposting.

Fixed

• add_community_list() has parameter description to support unannounced upstream Reddit API changes.

• WidgetModeration.update() supports passing a list of Subreddit objects.

Changed

• Removed css_class parameter cannot be used with background_color, text_color, or mod_only constraint on methods:

  • SubredditFlairTemplates.update()

  • SubredditRedditorFlairTemplates.add()

  • SubredditLinkFlairTemplates.add()

Removed

• Drop official support for Python 2.7.

• Multireddit.rename() no longer works due to a change in the Reddit API.

6.3.1 (2019/06/10)

Removed

• SubredditListingMixin.gilded(), as this was supposed to be removed in 6.0.0 after deprecation in 5.2.0.

6.3.0 (2019/06/09)

Added

• Collections (Collection and helper classes).

• submit(), submit_image(), and submit_video() can be used to submit a post directly to a collection.

• praw.util.camel_to_snake and praw.util.snake_case_keys.

• Comments can now be locked and unlocked via comment.mod.lock() and comment.mod.unlock(). See: (lock() and unlock()).

• align parameter to upload_banner_additional_image()

Changed

• Reddit.info() now accepts any non-str iterable for fullnames (not just list).

• Reddit.info() now returns a generator instead of a list when using the url parameter.

6.2.0 (2019/05/05)

Added

• upload_banner()

• upload_banner_additional_image()

• upload_banner_hover_image()

• delete_banner()

• delete_banner_additional_image()

• delete_banner_hover_image()

• submit(), submit_image(), and submit_video() support parameter nsfw to mark the submission NSFW immediately upon posting.

• submit(), submit_image(), and submit_video() support parameter spoiler to mark the submission as a spoiler immediately upon posting.

• submit_image() and submit_video() support parameter timeout. Default timeout has been raised from 2 seconds to 10 seconds.

• Added parameter function_kwargs to stream_generator() to pass additional kwargs to function.

Fixed

• Subreddit.random() returns None instead of raising ClientException when the subreddit does not support generating random submissions.

Other

• Bumped minimum prawcore version to 1.0.1.

6.1.1 (2019/01/29)

Added

• SubredditFlair.set() supports parameter flair_template_id for giving a user redesign flair.

6.1.0 (2019/01/19)

Added

• Add method Redditor.trophies() to get a list of the Redditor’s trophies.

• Add class PostFlairWidget.

• Add attributes reply_limit and reply_sort to class Comment

• Add class SubredditWidgetsModeration (accessible through SubredditWidgets.mod) and method add_text_area().

• Add class WidgetModeration (accessible through the .mod attribute on any widget) with methods update() and delete().

• Add method Reddit.put() for HTTP PUT requests.

• Add methods add_calendar() and add_community_list().

• Add methods add_image_widget() and upload_image().

• Add method add_custom_widget().

• Add method add_post_flair_widget().

• Add method add_menu().

• Add method add_button_widget().

• Add method reorder() to reorder a subreddit’s widgets.

• Add Redditors (reddit.redditors) to provide Redditor listings.

• Add submit_image() for submitting native images to Reddit.

• Add submit_video() for submitting native videos and videogifs to Reddit.

Changed

• me() returns None in read_only mode.

• SubredditLinkFlairTemplates.__iter__() uses the v2 flair API endpoint. This change will result in additional fields being returned. All fields that were previously returned will still be returned.

• SubredditRedditorFlairTemplates.__iter__() uses the v2 flair API endpoint. The method will still return the exact same items.

• Methods SubredditRedditorFlairTemplates.add(), SubredditLinkFlairTemplates.add(), SubredditRedditorFlairTemplates.update(), and SubredditLinkFlairTemplates.update() can add and update redesign-style flairs with the v2 flair API endpoint. They can still update pre-redesign-style flairs with the older endpoint.

Fixed

• Widgets of unknown types are parsed as Widgets rather than raising an exception.

6.0.0 (2018/07/24)

Added

• Add method revision() to get a specific wiki page revision.

• Added parameter skip_existing to stream_generator() to skip existing items when starting a stream.

• Add method Front.best() to get the front page “best” listing.

• Add Subreddit.widgets, SubredditWidgets, and widget subclasses like TextArea to support fetching Reddit widgets.

• Add method Submission.mark_visited() to mark a submission as visited on the Reddit backend.

Fixed

• Fix RecursionError on SubredditEmoji’s repr and str.

• SubredditFilters.add() and SubredditFilters.remove() also accept a Subreddit for the subreddit parameter.

• Remove restriction which prevents installed (non-confidential) apps from using OAuth2 authorization code grant flow.

Removed

• Subreddit.submissions as the API endpoint backing the method is no more. See https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/7tus5f/update_to_search_api/.

5.4.0 (2018/03/27)

Added

• Add method patch() to Reddit class to support HTTP PATCH requests.

• Add class Preferences to access and update Reddit preferences.

• Add attribute User.preferences to access an instance of Preferences.

• Add method Message.delete().

• Add class Emoji to work with custom subreddit emoji.

Deprecated

• Subreddit.submissions as the API endpoint backing the method is going away. See https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/7tus5f/update_to_search_api/.

Fixed

• Fix bug with positive pause_after values in streams provided by stream_generator() where the wait time was not reset after a yielded None.

• Parse URLs with trailing slashes and no "comments" element when creating Submission objects.

• Fix bug where Subreddit.submissions returns a same submission more than once

• Fix bug where ListingGenerator fetches the same batch of submissions in an infinite loop when "before" parameter is provided.

Removed

• Removed support for Python 3.3 as it is no longer supported by requests.

5.3.0 (2017/12/16)

Added

• Multireddit.stream, to stream submissions and comments from a multireddit.

• Redditor.block()

Fixed

• Now raises prawcore.UnavailableForLegalReasons instead of an AssertionError when encountering a HTTP 451 response.

5.2.0 (2017/10/24)

Changed

• An attribute on LiveUpdate now works as lazy attribute (i.e., populate an attribute when the attribute is first accessed).

Deprecated

• subreddit.comments.gilded because there isn’t actually an endpoint that returns only gilded comments. Use subreddit.gilded instead.

Fixed

• Removed comment.permalink() because comment.permalink is now an attribute returned by Reddit.

5.1.0 (2017/08/31)

Added

• Redditor.stream, with methods RedditorStream.submissions() and RedditorStream.comments() to stream a Redditor’s comments or submissions

• RedditorStream has been added to facilitate Redditor.stream

• Inbox.collapse() to mark messages as collapsed.

• Inbox.uncollapse() to mark messages as uncollapsed.

• Raise ClientException when calling Comment.refresh() when the comment does not appear in the resulting comment tree.

• Submission.crosspost() to crosspost to a subreddit.

Fixed

• Calling Comment.refresh() on a directly fetched, deeply nested Comment will additionally pull in as many parent comments as possible (currently 8) enabling significantly quicker traversal to the top-most Comment via successive parent() calls.

• Calling refresh() previously could have resulted in a AttributeError: "MoreComments" object has no attribute "_replies" exception. This situation will now result in a ClientException.

• Properly handle BAD_CSS_NAME errors when uploading stylesheet images with invalid filenames. Previously an AssertionError was raised.

• Submission’s gilded attribute properly returns the expected value from reddit.

5.0.1 (2017/07/11)

Fixed

• Calls to hide() and unhide() properly batch into requests of 50 submissions at a time.

• Lowered the average maximum delay between inactive stream checks by 4x to 16 seconds. It was previously 64 seconds, which was too long.

5.0.0 (2017/07/04)

Added

• Comment.disable_inbox_replies(), Comment.enable_inbox_replies() Submission.disable_inbox_replies(), and Submission.enable_inbox_replies() to toggle inbox replies on comments and submissions.

Changed

• cloudsearch is no longer the default syntax for search(). lucene is now the default syntax so that PRAW’s default is aligned with Reddit’s default.

• Reddit.info() will now take either a list of fullnames or a single URL string.

• Subreddit.submit() accepts a flair template ID and text.

Fixed

• Fix accessing LiveUpdate.contrib raises AttributeError.

Removed

• Iterating directly over SubredditRelationship (e.g., subreddit.banned, subreddit.contributor, subreddit.moderator, etc) and SubredditFlair is no longer possible. Iterate instead over their callables, e.g. subreddit.banned() and subreddit.flair().

• The following methods are removed: Subreddit.mod.approve, Subreddit.mod.distinguish, Subreddit.mod.ignore_reports, Subreddit.mod.remove, Subreddit.mod.undistinguish, Subreddit.mod.unignore_reports.

• Support for passing a Submission to SubredditFlair.set() is removed.

• The thing argument to SubredditFlair.set() is removed.

• Return values from Comment.block(), Message.block(), SubredditMessage.block(), SubredditFlair.delete(), friend(), Redditor.message(), Subreddit.message(), select(), and unfriend() are removed as they do not provide any useful information.

• praw.ini no longer reads in http_proxy and https_proxy settings.

• is_link parameter of SubredditRedditorFlairTemplates.add() and SubredditRedditorFlairTemplates.clear(). Use SubredditLinkFlairTemplates instead.

4.6.0 (2017/07/04)

The release’s sole purpose is to announce the deprecation of the is_link parameter as described below:

Added

• SubredditFlair.link_templates to manage link flair templates.

Deprecated

• is_link parameter of SubredditRedditorFlairTemplates.add() and SubredditRedditorFlairTemplates.clear(). Use SubredditLinkFlairTemplates instead.

4.5.1 (2017/05/07)

Fixed

• Calling parent() works on Comment instances obtained via comment_replies().

4.5.0 (2017/04/29)

Added

• Modmail.unread_count() to get unread count by conversation state.

• Modmail.bulk_read() to mark conversations as read by conversation state.

• Modmail.subreddits() to fetch subreddits using new modmail.

• Modmail.create() to create a new modmail conversation.

• ModmailConversation.read() to mark modmail conversations as read.

• ModmailConversation.unread() to mark modmail conversations as unread.

• conversations() to get new modmail conversations.

• ModmailConversation.highlight() to highlight modmail conversations.

• ModmailConversation.unhighlight() to unhighlight modmail conversations.

• ModmailConversation.mute() to mute modmail conversations.

• ModmailConversation.unmute() to unmute modmail conversations.

• ModmailConversation.archive() to archive modmail conversations.

• ModmailConversation.unarchive() to unarchive modmail conversations.

• ModmailConversation.reply() to reply to modmail conversations.

• Modmail.__call__() to get a new modmail conversation.

• Inbox.stream() to stream new items in the inbox.

• Exponential request delay to all streams when no new items are returned in a request. The maximum delay between requests is 66 seconds.

Changed

• submit() accepts selftext='' to create a title-only submission.

• Reddit accepts requestor_class=cls for a customized requestor class and requestor_kwargs={"param": value} for passing arguments to requestor initialization.

• SubredditStream.comments(), SubredditStream.submissions(), and Subreddits.stream() accept a pause_after argument to allow pausing of the stream. The default value of None retains the preexisting behavior.

Deprecated

• cloudsearch will no longer be the default syntax for Subreddit.search() in PRAW 5. Instead, lucene will be the default syntax so that PRAW’s default is aligned with Reddit’s default.

Fixed

• Fix bug where WikiPage revisions with deleted authors caused TypeError.

• Submission attributes comment_limit and comment_sort maintain their values after making instances non-lazy.

4.4.0 (2017/02/21)

Added

• LiveThreadContribution.update() to update settings of a live thread.

• reset_timestamp to limits() to provide insight into when the current rate limit window will expire.

• upload_mobile_header() to upload subreddit mobile header.

• upload_mobile_icon() to upload subreddit mobile icon.

• delete_mobile_header() to remove subreddit mobile header.

• delete_mobile_icon() to remove subreddit mobile icon.

• LiveUpdateContribution.strike() to strike a content of a live thread.

• LiveContributorRelationship.update() to update contributor permissions for a redditor.

• LiveContributorRelationship.update_invite() to update contributor invite permissions for a redditor.

• LiveThread.discussions() to get submissions linking to the thread.

• LiveThread.report() to report the thread violating the Reddit rules.

• LiveHelper.now() to get the currently featured live thread.

• LiveHelper.info() to fetch information about each live thread in live thread IDs.

Fixed

• Uploading an image resulting in too large of a request (>500 KB) now raises prawcore.TooLarge instead of an AssertionError.

• Uploading an invalid image raises APIException.

• Redditor instances obtained via moderator (e.g., reddit.subreddit("test").moderator()) will contain attributes with the relationship metadata (e.g., mod_permissions).

• Message instances retrieved from the inbox now have attributes author, dest replies and subreddit properly converted to their appropriate PRAW model.

4.3.0 (2017/01/19)

Added

• LiveContributorRelationship.leave() to abdicate the live thread contributor position.

• LiveContributorRelationship.remove() to remove the redditor from the live thread contributors.

• limits() to provide insight into number of requests made and remaining in the current rate limit window.

• LiveThread.contrib to obtain an instance of LiveThreadContribution.

• LiveThreadContribution.add() to add an update to the live thread.

• LiveThreadContribution.close() to close the live thread permanently.

• LiveUpdate.contrib to obtain an instance of LiveUpdateContribution.

• LiveUpdateContribution.remove() to remove a live update.

• LiveContributorRelationship.accept_invite() to accept an invite to contribute the live thread.

• SubredditHelper.create() and SubredditModeration.update() have documented support for spoilers_enabled. Note, however, that SubredditModeration.update() will currently unset the spoilers_enabled value until such a time that Reddit returns the value along with the other settings.

• spoiler() and unspoiler() to change a submission’s spoiler status.

Fixed

• LiveContributorRelationship.invite() and LiveContributorRelationship.remove_invite() now hit endpoints, which starts with “api/”, for consistency.

• ModeratorRelationship.update(), and ModeratorRelationship.update_invite() now always remove known unlisted permissions.

4.2.0 (2017/01/07)

Added

• .Subreddit.rules to get the rules of a subreddit.

• LiveContributorRelationship, which can be obtained through LiveThread.contributor, to interact with live threads’ contributors.

• remove_invite() to remove a moderator invite.

• LiveContributorRelationship.invite() to send a contributor invitation.

• LiveContributorRelationship.remove_invite() to remove the contributor invitation.

Deprecated

• Return values from Comment.block(), Message.block(), SubredditMessage.block(), SubredditFlair.delete(), friend(), Redditor.message(), Subreddit.message(), select(), and unfriend() will be removed in PRAW 5 as they do not provide any useful information.

Fixed

• hide() and unhide() now accept a list of additional submissions.

• replace_more() is now recoverable. Previously, when an exception was raised during the work done by replace_more(), all unreplaced MoreComments instances were lost. Now MoreComments instances are only removed once their children have been added to the CommentForest enabling callers of replace_more() to call the method as many times as required to complete the replacement.

• Working with contributors on SubredditWiki is done consistently through contributor not contributors.

• Subreddit.moderator() works.

• live_thread.contributor() now returns RedditorList correctly.

Removed

• validate_time_filter is no longer part of the public interface.

4.1.0 (2016/12/24)

Added

• Subreddits.search_by_topic() to search subreddits by topic. (see: https://www.reddit.com/dev/api/#GET_api_subreddits_by_topic).

• LiveHelper.__call__() to provide interface to praw.models.LiveThread.__init__.

• SubredditFilters to work with filters for special subreddits, like r/all.

• Added callables for SubredditRelationship and SubredditFlair so that limit and other parameters can be passed.

• Add Message.reply() to Message which was accidentally missed previously.

• Add sticky parameter to CommentModeration.distinguish() to sticky comments.

• Submission.flair() to add a submission’s flair from an instance of Submission.

• Comment.parent() to obtain the parent of a Comment.

• opt_in() and opt_out() to Subreddit to permit working with quarantined subreddits.

• LiveUpdate to represent an individual update in a LiveThread.

• Ability to access an individual LiveUpdate via reddit.live("THREAD_ID")["UPDATE_ID"].

• LiveThread.updates() to iterate the updates of the thread.

Changed

• me() now caches its result in order to reduce redundant requests for methods that depend on it. Set use_cache=False when calling to bypass the cache.

• replace_more() can be called on Comment replies.

Deprecated

• validate_time_filter will be removed from the public interface in PRAW 4.2 as it was never intended to be part of it to begin with.

• Iterating directly over SubredditRelationship (e.g., subreddit.banned, subreddit.contributor, subreddit.moderator, etc) and SubredditFlair will be removed in PRAW 5. Iterate instead over their callables, e.g. subreddit.banned() and subreddit.flair().

• The following methods are deprecated to be removed in PRAW 5 and are replaced with similar Comment.mod... and Submission.mod... alternatives: Subreddit.mod.approve, Subreddit.mod.distinguish, Subreddit.mod.ignore_reports, Subreddit.mod.remove, Subreddit.mod.undistinguish, Subreddit.mod.unignore_reports.

• Support for passing a Submission to SubredditFlair.set() will be removed in PRAW 5. Use Submission.flair() instead.

• The thing argument to SubredditFlair.set() is replaced with redditor and will be removed in PRAW 5.

Fixed

• SubredditModeration.update() accurately updates exclude_banned_modqueue, header_hover_text, show_media and show_media_preview values.

• Instances of Comment obtained through the inbox (including mentions) are now refreshable.

• Searching r/all should now work as intended for all users.

• Accessing an invalid attribute on an instance of Message will raise AttributeError instead of PRAWException.

4.0.0 (2016/11/29)

Fixed

• Fix bug where ipython tries to access attribute _ipython_canary_method_should_not_exist_ resulting in a useless fetch.

• Fix bug where Comment replies becomes [] after attempting to access an invalid attribute on the Comment.

• Reddit.wiki[…] converts the passed in page name to lower case as pages are only saved in lower case and non-lower case page names results in a Redirect exception (thanks pcjonathan).

4.0.0rc3 (2016/11/26)

Added

• implicit parameter to url() to support the implicit flow for installed applications (see: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/OAuth2#authorization-implicit-grant-flow)

• scopes() to discover which scopes are available to the current authentication

• Lots of documentation: https://praw.readthedocs.io/

4.0.0rc2 (2016/11/20)

Fixed

• Auth.authorize() properly sets the session’s Authentication (thanks @williammck).

4.0.0rc1 (2016/11/20)

PRAW 4 introduces significant breaking changes. The numerous changes are not listed here, only the feature removals. Please read through Quick Start to help with updating your code to PRAW 4. If you require additional help please ask on r/redditdev or via Slack.

Added

• Comment.block(), Message.block(), and SubredditMessage.block() to permit blocking unwanted user contact.

• LiveHelper.create() to create new live threads.

• Redditor.unblock() to undo a block.

• Subreddits.gold() to iterate through gold subreddits.

• Subreddits.search() to search for subreddits by name and description.

• Subreddits.stream() to obtain newly created subreddits in near realtime.

• User.karma() to retrieve the current user’s subreddit karma.

• praw.models.reddit.submission.SubmissionModeration.lock and praw.models.reddit.submission.SubmissionModeration.unlock to change a Submission’s lock state.

• SubredditFlairTemplates.delete() to delete a single flair template.

• SubredditModeration.unread() to iterate over unread moderation messages.

• ModeratorRelationship.invite() to invite a moderator to a subreddit.

• ModeratorRelationship.update() to update a moderator’s permissions.

• ModeratorRelationship.update_invite() to update an invited moderator’s permissions.

• Front.random_rising(), Subreddit.random_rising() and Multireddit.random_rising().

• WikiPage supports a revision argument.

• SubredditWiki.revisions() to obtain a list of recent revisions to a subreddit.

• WikiPage.revisions() to obtain a list of revisions for a wiki page.

• Support installed-type OAuth apps.

• Support read-only OAuth for all application types.

• Support script-type OAuth apps.

Changed

Note

Only prominent changes are listed here.

• helpers.comments_stream is now SubredditStream.comments()

• helpers.submissions_between is now Subreddit.submissions. This new method now only iterates through newest submissions first and as a result makes approximately 33% fewer requests.

• helpers.submission_stream is now SubredditStream.submissions()

Removed

• Removed Reddit’s login method. Authentication must be done through OAuth.

• Removed praw-multiprocess as this functionality is no longer needed with PRAW 4.

• Removed non-oauth functions Message.collapse and Message.uncollapse is_username_available.

• Removed captcha related functions.

For changes prior to version 4.0 please see: 3.6.2 changelog