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Returning reddit user IDs for submissions and comments #556

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If applied, will update the returned item of the _api_obj_to_item method of the reddit scraper to include the authors full user id, instead of just their username. This is useful to users who track reddit users by these unique IDs across many sources.

If applied, will update the returned item of the _api_obj_to_item method of the reddit scraper to include the authors full user id, instead of just their username. This is useful to users who track reddit users by these unique IDs across sources.
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Returning those IDs is indeed a good idea, yeah, thanks!

date: datetime.datetime
id: str
link: typing.Optional[str]
selftext: typing.Optional[str]
subreddit: typing.Optional[str] # E.g. submission 617p51
subreddit_id: typing.Optional[str]
score: int

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The score is intentionally not included. Pushshift's data is almost always outdated and therefore completely wrong. This also wasn't mentioned in either the commit message or the PR...?

@@ -20,11 +20,14 @@
@dataclasses.dataclass
class Submission(snscrape.base.Item):
author: typing.Optional[str] # E.g. submission hf7k6
author_id: typing.Optional[str]

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I use camelCase for variables/attributes (cf. Comment.parentId), so this should be authorId, and likewise on the other lines.

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