LiveUpdate¶

class praw.models.LiveUpdate(reddit, thread_id=None, update_id=None, _data=None)¶

An individual LiveUpdate object.

Typical Attributes

This table describes attributes that typically belong to objects of this class. Since attributes are dynamically provided (see Determine Available Attributes of an Object), there is not a guarantee that these attributes will always be present, nor is this list necessarily comprehensive.

Attribute	Description
`author`	The `Redditor` who made the update.
`body`	Body of the update, as Markdown.
`body_html`	Body of the update, as HTML.
`created_utc`	The time the update was created, as Unix Time.
`stricken`	A `bool` representing whether or not the update was stricken (see `strike()`).

__init__(reddit, thread_id=None, update_id=None, _data=None)¶

Initialize a lazy LiveUpdate instance.

Either thread_id and update_id, or _data must be provided.

Parameters:	reddit – An instance of `Reddit`. thread_id – A live thread ID, e.g., `'ukaeu1ik4sw5'`. update_id – A live update ID, e.g., `'7827987a-c998-11e4-a0b9-22000b6a88d2'`.

Usage:

update = LiveUpdate(reddit, 'ukaeu1ik4sw5',
                    '7827987a-c998-11e4-a0b9-22000b6a88d2')
update.thread     # LiveThread(id='ukaeu1ik4sw5')
update.id         # '7827987a-c998-11e4-a0b9-22000b6a88d2'
update.author     # 'umbrae'

contrib¶

Provide an instance of LiveUpdateContribution.

Usage:

thread = reddit.live('ukaeu1ik4sw5')
update = thread['7827987a-c998-11e4-a0b9-22000b6a88d2']
update.contrib  # LiveUpdateContribution instance

fullname¶

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.

classmethod parse(data, reddit)¶

Return an instance of cls from data.

Parameters:	data – The structured data. reddit – An instance of `Reddit`.

thread¶: Return LiveThread object the update object belongs to.