Reddit post comments API reference

GET /v1/reddit/post/comments

The post's comment tree, flattened in display order (replies carry parent_id); on the first page parent is the post. Replies Reddit folds away stay folded.

Cost: 1 credit
Cache: Results are kept up to 30 days; send max_age_days to reuse them for free.
Timeout: A request still running after about 25 seconds answers 202 with a job to poll (Batch and jobs).

Parameters#

Name	Type	Required	Description
`url`	URL	yes	Post URL (reddit.com/r/.../comments/..., redd.it/..., mobile share links). Accepted hosts: `reddit.com`, `redd.it`.
`sort`	string	no	Order of results. Changing it restarts the cursor chain. One of `confidence`, `top`, `new`, `controversial`, `old`, `qa`. Default `confidence`. Also accepted as `sort_by`, `sortBy`, `order`.

Every request also accepts:

cursor: the cursor from the previous page (Pagination).
trim: true for a smaller response without null fields and extra.
raw: true to also get the platform's original object as raw.
max_age_days: accept a cached result up to this many days old, for 0 credits (Caching).

Example request#

Set your key in the environment first (see Authentication).

1curl -G "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/reddit/post/comments" \2  -H "x-api-key: $SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY" \3  --data-urlencode "url=https://www.reddit.com/r/webscraping/comments/1q6pxwn/just_started_web_scraping_is_this_a_good_start/"

1import os2import requests34params = {5    "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/webscraping/comments/1q6pxwn/just_started_web_scraping_is_this_a_good_start/",6}7res = requests.get(8    "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/reddit/post/comments",9    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY"]},10    params=params,11)12body = res.json()1314if body["ok"]:15    print(body["data"])16else:17    print(body["error"]["code"], body["error"]["message"])

1const url = new URL("https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/reddit/post/comments");2url.search = new URLSearchParams({3  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/webscraping/comments/1q6pxwn/just_started_web_scraping_is_this_a_good_start/"4}).toString();5const res = await fetch(url, {6  headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY! },7});8const body = await res.json();910if (body.ok) {11  console.log(body.data);12} else {13  console.error(body.error.code, body.error.message);14}

1{2  "nodes": [3    {4      "name": "SocialScrape Reddit post comments",5      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest",6      "typeVersion": 4.2,7      "position": [8        0,9        010      ],11      "parameters": {12        "method": "GET",13        "url": "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/reddit/post/comments",14        "sendQuery": true,15        "queryParameters": {16          "parameters": [17            {18              "name": "url",19              "value": "https://www.reddit.com/r/webscraping/comments/1q6pxwn/just_started_web_scraping_is_this_a_good_start/"20            }21          ]22        },23        "sendHeaders": true,24        "headerParameters": {25          "parameters": [26            {27              "name": "x-api-key",28              "value": "={{ $env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY }}"29            }30          ]31        }32      }33    }34  ],35  "connections": {}36}

Example response#

This is a sample from a recorded response, lists and long text are shortened, dash characters in the text are replaced with hyphens, other people's names and handles are replaced. Status 200.

200 OKSample response

1{2  "ok": true,3  "credits_charged": 1,4  "credits_remaining": 4999,5  "cached": false,6  "cached_at": null,7  "request_id": "req_f3b8983d7898d6a8fae72aa4",8  "data": {9    "object": "list",10    "items": [11      {12        "object": "comment",13        "platform": "reddit",14        "id": "nyfjrfq",15        "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/webscraping/comments/1q6pxwn/comment/nyfjrfq/",16        "post_id": "1q6pxwn",17        "parent_id": null,18        "author": {19          "id": "1000000001",20          "handle": "sample_user",21          "name": "Sample User",22          "url": null,23          "avatar_url": null,24          "verified": false25        },26        "text": "Nice work for 3 days in. But yeah, context matters, scraping a static site vs a protected one is night and day. Just be ready for the maintenance, scripts break all the time. Still worth learning imo",27        "published_at": "2026-01-08T17:16:35.580000Z",28        "stats": {29          "likes": 19,30          "replies": null,31          "dislikes": null32        },33        "is_pinned": null,34        "is_by_creator": null,35        "extra": {36          "depth": 0,37          "score": 19,38          "thing_id": "t1_nyfjrfq"39        }40      },41      {42        "object": "comment",43        "platform": "reddit",44        "id": "nyfa2v8",45        "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/webscraping/comments/1q6pxwn/comment/nyfa2v8/",46        "post_id": "1q6pxwn",47        "parent_id": null,48        "author": {49          "id": "1000000001",50          "handle": "sample_user",51          "name": "Sample User",52          "url": null,53          "avatar_url": null,54          "verified": false55        },56        "text": "Pursuing web scraping as a sole career is a BIG NO but having web scraping skill in your arsenal is a good thing. Getting public data is so easy that so many extensions and tools are there to do it.\n\nThe real-world web scraping is involve c...",57        "published_at": "2026-01-08T16:34:37.027000Z",58        "stats": {59          "likes": 2,60          "replies": null,61          "dislikes": null62        },63        "is_pinned": null,64        "is_by_creator": null,65        "extra": {66          "depth": 0,67          "score": 2,68          "thing_id": "t1_nyfa2v8"69        }70      }71    ],72    "cursor": null,73    "has_more": false,74    "parent": {75      "object": "post",76      "platform": "reddit",77      "id": "1q6pxwn",78      "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/webscraping/comments/1q6pxwn/just_started_web_scraping_is_this_a_good_start/",79      "type": "text",80      "author": {81        "id": "t2_16xbknfp71",82        "handle": "franik33",83        "name": "franik33",84        "url": "https://www.reddit.com/user/franik33/",85        "avatar_url": "https://preview.redd.it/snoovatar/avatars/5c702f7f-567b-460a-8bac-c91f154da646-headshot.png?width=64&height=64&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=5bbfe08fa505dabc7fd2ede595f19cb0e5b28502",86        "verified": null87      },88      "title": "Just Started Web Scraping - Is This a Good Start?",89      "text": "Hi everyone,\n\nI started getting into web scraping about 3-4 days ago. I already have some solid experience with Python, and my first scraping project was a public website. I managed to collect around 7,000 records and everything worked as e...",90      "published_at": "2026-01-07T20:01:30.561000Z",91      "duration_seconds": null,92      "language": null,93      "hashtags": null,94      "mentions": null,95      "stats": {96        "views": null,97        "likes": 33,98        "comments": 53,99        "shares": null,100        "saves": null,101        "dislikes": null102      },103      "media": {104        "thumbnail_url": null,105        "video_url": null,106        "audio_url": null,107        "image_urls": null,108        "width": null,109        "height": null110      },111      "song": null,112      "location": null,113      "is_pinned": null,114      "is_sponsored": null,115      "extra": {116        "award_count": 0,117        "domain": "self.webscraping",118        "post_type": "text",119        "score": 33,120        "subreddit": "webscraping",121        "subreddit_id": "t5_318ly",122        "upvote_ratio": 0.9230769230769231123      }124    }125  },126  "cursor": null,127  "has_more": false128}

Response#

A list of Comment objects in data.items, with data.cursor and data.has_more.

See Data models for every field. The envelope around data is described in Responses.

Errors#

Failures are free: credits_charged is 0. Branch on error.code, never on the message.

Code	HTTP	Retry	Meaning
`invalid_params`	400	no	A parameter is missing, unknown or has the wrong type.
`unsupported_url`	400	no	The URL is not one this endpoint accepts (wrong platform or form).
`not_found`	404	no	The platform says this profile, post or item does not exist.

Every request can also fail with the account and platform errors listed on the Errors page.

Subreddit details (GET /v1/reddit/subreddit/details)
Subreddit posts (GET /v1/reddit/subreddit/posts)
Search within a subreddit (GET /v1/reddit/subreddit/search)
Reddit post (GET /v1/reddit/post)
Reddit post comments (POST body) (POST /v1/reddit/post/comments)
Reddit video post transcript (GET /v1/reddit/post/transcript)
Reddit search (GET /v1/reddit/search)

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