get_thing: Get a comment or post based on its unique id
In jfeldhege/redditoR: Access the Reddit API

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Examples

Get a comment or post based on its unique id

get_thing(
  subreddit,
  id,
  type = c("comment", "post"),
  accesstoken = NULL,
  output = c("df", "json", "all"),
  verbose = FALSE,
  retry = FALSE
)

`subreddit`	The subreddit of the thing
`id`	The unique id of the requested thing. Reddit IDs are in base 36.
`type`	What type of thing the id is. Must be `comment` or `post`.
`accesstoken`	The accesstoken required to access the endpoint. Scope must be `"read"`.
`output`	What the function should return. Choose `json` for an unparsed json object, `df` for a parsed object in form of a dataframe, and `all` for a list containg the json object, a dataframe, and the before and after anchors (if those exist for the endpoint).
`verbose`	A logical flag whether information about the data extraction should be printed to the console.
`retry`	A logical flag whether a failed api request should be retried. Requests will be tried up to three times with varying time intervals between requests.

More info at https://www.reddit.com/dev/api/

The requested thing as a dataframe, json object or a list containing both.

## Not run: 
read_token <- get_token(scope = "read",
                        useragent = my_useragent,
                        username = my_username,
                        password = my_password,
                        client_id = my_client_id,
                        client_secret = my_client_secret)
                        

comm <- get_comments(subreddit = "askreddit",
                      accesstoken = read_token,
                      output = "df",
                      limit = 1)

#Look up the post this comment was made to
parent_post <- get_thing(subreddit = "askreddit",
                         id = comm$parent_id,
                         item_type = "post",
                         accesstoken = read_token)

## End(Not run)