Getting the Timestamp

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Getting the Timestamp

Closed this issue 3 years ago · 5 comments

Is there a way to get the timestamp from get_reddit()? e.g. {"created_utc": 1543846575.0}

comm_date = format(as.Date(as.POSIXct(unlist(lapply(main.node, function(x){GetAttribute(x,"created_utc")})), origin="1970-01-01")),"%d-%m-%y"),

Edit: It seems it is converted. Is there a simple way to recover the Unix stamp?

Answer 1 · 2018-12-03T21:54:06.000Z

I rebuilt and tried setting comm_date = to meta.node$created_utc, but the timestamps were all the same. The second effort produced the same result when I tried format(as.Date(as.POSIXct(unlist(lapply(main.node, function(x){GetAttribute(x,"created_utc")})), origin="1970-01-01")),"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")

I added the HMS to the timestamp, but they all returned as zeroes. The comments are sporadic, so I couldn't figure out the logic, but I will try again tomorrow.

Answer 2 · 2018-12-04T09:35:34.000Z

I solved it: comm_date = unlist(lapply(main.node, function(x){GetAttribute(x,"created_utc")})),

Remove the formatting, and change the data type on line 41 to numeric().

Answer 3 · 2019-10-26T21:02:08.000Z

Reopened and added a pull request.

Answer 4 · 2021-06-12T22:50:03.000Z

Hey, is this issue solved ? when I pull the data using the command

get_reddit( subreddit = "wallstreetbets",
                   cn_threshold = 1, page_threshold = 1, sort_by = "comments",
                   wait_time = 2)

it does not return timestamps

Answer 5 · 2021-08-22T15:50:11.000Z

I've updated the package to version 3.0.0 so the interface and the outputs have changed, but I expose the parsed UTC date which you can convert back to a timestamp if needed.