Reddit Comments API

Endpoint facts

Method

GET

API path

/reddit/comments/{id}

Auth

apiKey

Credits

1 credit default · 3 with metrics

Platform

Reddit

Response schema

#/definitions/reddit.commentsResponseDoc

Overview

Returns a Reddit post with its public comments. The default 1-credit mode uses RSS. Set `include_metrics=true` to use the anonymous HTML post page as the sole content request and return the server-rendered comments with public net score and award count plus post engagement metrics for 3 credits. Large threads may expose only an initial comment subset in anonymous HTML. Reddit does not expose per-comment upvote ratios or exact upvote/downvote totals anonymously. A post that exists but has no comments yet returns a 200 response with an empty comments list; a post that does not exist returns 404, and a temporary block or upstream failure returns 503 (retryable) rather than 404. Developers commonly use this endpoint for data enrichment, monitoring, research dashboards, internal automation, and agent-native workflows that need repeatable structured public web data. Authentication uses the documented Crawlora headers, and usage is metered with the credit cost shown on this page.

Authentication

Send your scraping API key in the x-api-key header. Use the console API Keys page to rotate or select the active key.

Billing

Endpoint usage is metered in credits. The plan prices, included credits, limits, and overage rates below match the active backend billing configuration.

Credit cost

1 credit default · 3 with metrics

Charged response

Successful 2xx responses

Infrastructure behavior

This endpoint is executed through Crawlora's managed scraping infrastructure.

• Proxy strategy: managed automatically where needed
• Browser rendering: enabled for supported targets that require rendered HTML or JavaScript execution
• Browser cluster: supported dynamic workloads can be routed through distributed browser instances
• Retry behavior: automatic retry/fallback may be used depending on endpoint type
• Challenge handling: challenged pages or unusable upstream HTML are detected and surfaced clearly when they cannot be used
• Billing: credits are charged only for successful 2xx responses
• Observability: responses include request context where available

Browser cluster behavior

Some targets require real browser execution because the data is loaded through JavaScript, dynamic rendering, or interaction-like browser behavior.

For supported endpoints, Crawlora can route requests through a managed browser cluster. This allows Crawlora to execute JavaScript, load dynamic content, apply browser-level request behavior, and normalize the rendered result into JSON.

You do not need to operate your own Playwright, Puppeteer, Chrome, proxy, queue, or retry infrastructure.

Response behavior

Example response: ```json {"code":200,"msg":"OK","data":{"post":{"id":"1tka90t","name":"t3_1tka90t","score":78,"upvote_ratio":1,"comment_count":15},"comments":[{"id":"on8jv87","name":"t1_on8jv87","parent_id":"t3_1tka90t","body":"well done! I am working on reversing Turnstile as well.","score":7,"award_count":0}],"source":{"type":"html","url":"https://www.reddit.com/comments/1tka90t/"},"metrics_source":{"type":"html","url":"https://www.reddit.com/comments/1tka90t/"}}} ```

Error behavior

Crawlora does not silently return bad data when the upstream page cannot be used.

When possible, Crawlora returns structured error context so your integration can retry, back off, or inspect the request.

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