I made a comment on an Imgur post. A friend told me "haha I saw that comment! That was on Reddit, right?" No, no my friend. It was on Imgur. Now I have to know when, to the second, I made my comment. I know when the Reddit comment was made because the alt-text on dates is the UTC time the [whatever element the date represents] was posted. But on Imgur, I can't find this information.
But this is 2014. There has to be a way. Right? RIGHT?! Please help me find the exact time an Imgur comment is posted!
Best Answer
There is a way, but not an easy one. Use the /comment method of Imgur API, which returns, among other things, the epoch timestamp of the comment (i.e., with accuracy up to 1 second).
The path is https://api.imgur.com/3/comment/{id} where {id} is the number at the end of the permalink of a comment. The data returned by the API looks like the example below, where
datetime
is the field you want. A tool such as http://www.epochconverter.com/ can convert it to human-readable form.The only catch is: Imgur API requires authorization, so before using it, you will need to jump through the registration hoops described at https://api.imgur.com/