How to access a reddit post using redditkit in ruby?

Question

I have a reddit post link here:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/comments/6m5k0o/teehee/

I wish to access the data of this post throught the redditkit API.

• http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/redditkit/

I have tried countless times and the docs don't make too much sense to me. Can someone help show how to do this through the ruby console? Or even an implementation of this in rails would be really helpful!

Answer 1

Looking at the #comment method on the gem, it takes a comment_full_name and performs a GET to api/info.json with that parameter as an id (seen by viewing the source for that method). If we look at the reddit api for api/info the id parameter is a full name for the object with a link to what a full name is.

Following that link, a full name for a comment is

Fullnames start with the type prefix for the object's type, followed by the thing's unique ID in base 36.

and

type prefixes

t1_ Comment

So now we know the comment_full_name should be t1_#{comment's unique id} which appears to be 6m5k0o. Here, I'm unsure if that's already base36 or if they want you to convert that into base36 before passing it. Without seeing what all you've tried, I would say

client = RedditKit::Client.new 'username', 'password'
client.comment("t1_6m5k0o")

and if that doesn't work

client.comment("t1_#{'6m5k0o' base36 encoded}")

For questions like this, it would be nice to see some of your code and what you tried/results they gave. For all I know, you've already tried this and have a reason it didn't work for you.

I would test this out for you, but I don't have a reddit account for the gem to sign in with, this is just my guess glancing at the documentation.