TTL

Return the expiration in seconds of a key.

Arguments

key

str

required

The key

Response

The number of seconds until this expires, negative if the key does not exist or does not have an expiration set.

Example

# Get the TTL of a key
redis.set("my-key", "value")

assert redis.ttl("my-key") == -1

redis.expire("my-key", 10)

assert redis.ttl("my-key") > 0

# Non existent key
assert redis.ttl("non-existent-key") == -2