Can I use this gem to fetch a users latest comment?

[sergiotapia]

My use case is quite simple, I just need to fetch the latest comments given a user.

For example:

user = RedditKit.user 'foobar'
user.comments.each do |comment|
  puts #{comment.body} - #{comment.post_date}
end

Is this possible at the moment, I couldn't seem to find anything related to Comments in the source code.

[BukhariH]

There's something like this exactly in the examples! So, we have your back!

You can achieve exactly what you're looking for by:

comments = RedditKit.user_content 'PresidentObama', :category => :comments

comments.each do |comment|
  puts "The comment '#{comment.text}' was posted at #{comment.posted_at}."
end

That is what you were looking for?

[sergiotapia]

I don't know how I missed that, let's chalk it up to 3am coding. :)

I had already written a Nokogiri based parsing solution but I assume this will be much quicker. Is this library only parsing JSON comments? That would be significantly quicker than my HTML scraping solution.

[samsymons]

Yeah, RedditKit uses reddit's JSON API for comments and parses them using multi_json, so it's pretty speedy.

[sergiotapia]

Thank you, I'll change my ruby code to use this lib and submit a pull request to show this example on the README.md file.