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How to get the parent comment via the API (self.lemmybotsupport)
submitted 1 year ago by Bluetreefrog to c/lemmybotsupport
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I'm trying to work out how to get a parent comment (if any) of a comment. The API documentation lists an attribute of comments 'path', which seems to hold a real, but it doesn't explain anywhere (that I could find), how to derive the parent comment from that.

Can anyone point me towards a resource to help me work this out?

Thanks in advance.

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[–] Rooki 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Path is build up like this:

"0.97159.97160"

0 = The post itself
97159 = the parent comment id
97160 = the "current" comment id ( should be the same as comment.id )

You can ping me if you have another question!

[–] Bluetreefrog 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you.

[–] Rooki 1 points 1 year ago

I didnt understood it at first too. But after checking what the numbers are i can share that information :)