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reddit-post-comments

Every comment Reddit sends for one post, flattened in reading order: author, score, text, depth in the thread, time, id, the parent's id and the comment's own link. url is the post's page or its id; sort top, best, new, controversial or old; limit caps the rows (up to about 500). session (your reddit_session cookie, used for this run only, never stored) is optional. Without session it reads Reddit's public JSON as a visitor (a few seconds; Reddit refuses some of our addresses); when Reddit refuses, a slower second source answers (about 40 s, replies one level deep).

stagedreddit.comWASM module8 fields2 units; or recordsfresh 10 min
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Live · your key · counts against your quota✓ 200 OK

              
# Hit Run - the rows render here as a table, with the cost

            

            
            
          

        

      

    





Fields
8 columns on every row. null means the site does not state it.


fieldtypemeaning
authorstringThe commenter's Reddit name, without u/.
scoreintegerThe comment's score when read.
textstringThe comment's whole text, as Reddit's markdown.
depthintegerHow deep the comment sits in the thread: 0 answers the post, 1 answers a comment, and so on.
createdstringWhen the comment was written, ISO 8601 UTC.
idstringReddit's id of the comment (without t1_).
parentstringThe id of what the comment answers: the post's id at depth 0, else the parent comment's id.
urlstringThe comment's own page on Reddit.



null means the site does not state it.
authorstringThe commenter's Reddit name, without u/.
scoreintegerThe comment's score when read.
textstringThe comment's whole text, as Reddit's markdown.
depthintegerHow deep the comment sits in the thread: 0 answers the post, 1 answers a comment, and so on.
createdstringWhen the comment was written, ISO 8601 UTC.
idstringReddit's id of the comment (without t1_).
parentstringThe id of what the comment answers: the post's id at depth 0, else the parent comment's id.
urlstringThe comment's own page on Reddit.


How it behaves
Cost. 2 units; or records. A failed run costs 0.
Freshness 10 min. The same input within 10 min is served from cache at 0 units.
How it answers. Answers at once for one input; a large run goes as a job you poll.














Questions about this recipeQuestions
Short answers. The API reference has the long ones.


Call POST /recipes/reddit-post-comments with your key and url and sort and limit. You get rows with the 8 fields above. The recipe is tested against the live site every 6 hours.







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