How to detect whether a submission on Reddit is a self post using PRAW?

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16379449

  •  14-04-2022
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Question

Is it possible to detect whether a user's submission on reddit is either a self-post or a link to an external URL? I want to exclude all self-posts but can seem to find anything in PRAW's documentation.

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Solution

All of the attributes listed in the json data of the following URL are available as attributes:

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/.json?limit=1

The attribute you might be interested in specifically is is_self. In PRAW, you need only test submission.is_self.

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