Reddit post comments API

Q: Which errors can it return?

invalid_params (do not retry), unsupported_url (do not retry), not_found (do not retry). Account and platform errors from the errors list can also happen. A failure always costs 0 credits.

Q: How do I get more than one page?

Send the same request with cursor set to the cursor you received, until has_more is false . Each page costs its own price. See pagination .

Q: Is there an SDK call for it?

The Python client has client.reddit.post_comments(...) and the TypeScript client client.reddit.postComments() . Both return the same envelope as the HTTP API. Install them from PyPI ( socialscrape-sdk ) or npm ( socialscrape ); plain HTTP works in any language.

Q: Can an AI agent call it?

Yes. The MCP server , which you run on your own machine, reaches every built endpoint, with the same prices.

Cost: 1 credit
Cached repeats: 0 creditssend max_age_days, results kept 30 days
Failed requests: 0 credits

Replies Reddit folds away stay folded.

You send url.

Part of the Reddit Scraper API: 7 Reddit endpoints on one key.

Request

Send your key in the x-api-key header.

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    timeout=60,12)13body = res.json()1415if body["ok"]:16    print(body["data"])17else:18    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}

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`url`	url	yes	Post URL (reddit.com/r/.../comments/..., redd.it/..., mobile share links).
`sort`	string		Order of results. Changing it restarts the cursor chain. Also accepted as `sort_by`, `sortBy`, `order`.
`cursor`	string		Opaque cursor from the previous page; pass it back unchanged. Also accepted as `continuationToken`, `continuation_token`, `next_max_id`, `max_id`, `max_cursor`, `min_time`, `after`, `page_token`, `pageToken`, `paginationToken`, `next_page_id`, `page`.

Every request also accepts trim, raw and max_age_days.

Response

Sample from a recorded response, shortened. Values are examples, not your data.

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 br...",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...",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=5bbfe08fa505dabc7fd2ede...",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 p...",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      }123    }124  },125  "cursor": null,126  "has_more": false127}

Fields

A page of results. Each entry in items is a Comment. cursor and has_more page through the rest.

A field the platform does not give is null, never made up. Extra platform details are in extra.

Field	Type	Always	Notes
`object`	`"comment"`
`platform`	Platform	yes
`id`	string	yes
`url`	string or null
`post_id`	string or null
`parent_id`	string or null		set on replies
`author`	Author or null
`text`	string or null
`published_at`	string (ISO 8601 date-time) or null
`stats`	CommentStats
`is_pinned`	boolean or null
`is_by_creator`	boolean or null
`extra`	object or null

Full field list in the reference for this endpoint and the data models. Errors are listed under Errors.

Questions

Which errors can it return?

invalid_params (do not retry), unsupported_url (do not retry), not_found (do not retry). Account and platform errors from the errors list can also happen. A failure always costs 0 credits.

How do I get more than one page?

Send the same request with cursor set to the cursor you received, until has_more is false. Each page costs its own price. See pagination.

Is there an SDK call for it?

The Python client has client.reddit.post_comments(...) and the TypeScript client client.reddit.postComments(). Both return the same envelope as the HTTP API. Install them from PyPI (socialscrape-sdk) or npm (socialscrape); plain HTTP works in any language.

Can an AI agent call it?

Yes. The MCP server, which you run on your own machine, reaches every built endpoint, with the same prices.

How to scrape Reddit post commentsStep by step, nine languages Subreddit detailsGET /v1/reddit/subreddit/details Subreddit postsGET /v1/reddit/subreddit/posts Search within a subredditGET /v1/reddit/subreddit/search Reddit postGET /v1/reddit/post Reddit video post transcriptGET /v1/reddit/post/transcript Reference in the docsEvery parameter and error Reddit Scraper APIAll 7 Reddit endpoints