Search Comments (Direct)

GET /v1/reddit/search/comments/direct

1 credit per page Permission: reddit:read

High-speed comment search extracting directly from Shreddit DOM markup, bypassing secondary upstream calls.

Authorization

bearerAuth: optional HTTP

apiKeyAuth: optional API key in header

Query parameters

q: required string

Search query, 1 to 500 characters.

maxLength: 500
sub: optional string

Only search this subreddit.
sort: optional relevance|new|top

default: "relevance"
t: optional hour|day|week|month|year|all

Time window when sorting by top or controversial.
after: optional string

Pagination cursor from the previous page's after field.
nsfw: optional boolean

Include NSFW content (filtered out by default).

default: false

Returns

200

The comments.

JSON

sort: required string
count: required integer
items: required array ofobject
- id: optional string
- name: optional string
- post_id: optional string
- post_title: optional string
- subreddit: optional string
- author: optional string
- score: optional integer
- body: optional string
- created_at: optional string
  
  format: date-time
- permalink: optional string
- parent_id: optional string
- is_submitter: optional boolean
- controversiality: optional integer
filtered_nsfw: required integer
subreddit: optional string | null
query: optional string | null
after: optional string | null
degraded: optional boolean

400

Bad request (invalid parameter or unknown action)

JSON

One of the following:

ErrorResponse
- error: required string
  
  Human-readable error message
- error_code: optional forbidden_scope|rate_limited|daily_quota_exceeded|insufficient_credits|duplicate_transaction
  
  Machine-readable error code. Known values include: forbidden_scope, rate_limited, daily_quota_exceeded, insufficient_credits, duplicate_transaction. Additional codes may be introduced in future releases.
Error
- error: required object
  
  code: required string
  
  message: required string
  
  retryable: required boolean
  
  retry_after: optional integer
  
  Seconds to wait before retrying.

401

Missing or invalid API key or OAuth access token

JSON

One of the following:

ErrorResponse
- error: required string
  
  Human-readable error message
- error_code: optional forbidden_scope|rate_limited|daily_quota_exceeded|insufficient_credits|duplicate_transaction
  
  Machine-readable error code. Known values include: forbidden_scope, rate_limited, daily_quota_exceeded, insufficient_credits, duplicate_transaction. Additional codes may be introduced in future releases.
Error
- error: required object
  
  code: required string
  
  message: required string
  
  retryable: required boolean
  
  retry_after: optional integer
  
  Seconds to wait before retrying.

402

The account has no credits left (insufficient_credits).

JSON

error: required object
- code: required string
- message: required string
- retryable: required boolean
- retry_after: optional integer
  
  Seconds to wait before retrying.

403

Reddit does not show this content to logged-out readers, e.g. a private or quarantined subreddit (reddit_refused).

JSON

error: required object
- code: required string
- message: required string
- retryable: required boolean
- retry_after: optional integer
  
  Seconds to wait before retrying.

429

Rate limit or daily request quota exceeded

JSON

One of the following:

ErrorResponse
- error: required string
  
  Human-readable error message
- error_code: optional forbidden_scope|rate_limited|daily_quota_exceeded|insufficient_credits|duplicate_transaction
  
  Machine-readable error code. Known values include: forbidden_scope, rate_limited, daily_quota_exceeded, insufficient_credits, duplicate_transaction. Additional codes may be introduced in future releases.
Error
- error: required object
  
  code: required string
  
  message: required string
  
  retryable: required boolean
  
  retry_after: optional integer
  
  Seconds to wait before retrying.

503

A temporary problem reaching Reddit (upstream_busy, upstream_timeout, upstream_error). Retry shortly; nothing was billed.

JSON

error: required object
- code: required string
- message: required string
- retryable: required boolean
- retry_after: optional integer
  
  Seconds to wait before retrying.

Search Comments (Direct)

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://api.threadapi.dev/v1/reddit/search/comments/direct?q=postgres%20replica%20lag' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'

const url = 'https://api.threadapi.dev/v1/reddit/search/comments/direct?q=postgres%20replica%20lag';
const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};

fetch(url, options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(json => console.log(json))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

import requests

url = "https://api.threadapi.dev/v1/reddit/search/comments/direct?q=postgres%20replica%20lag"

headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

Response example

{
  "subreddit": "string",
  "query": "string",
  "sort": "string",
  "count": 0,
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "string",
      "name": "string",
      "post_id": "string",
      "post_title": "string",
      "subreddit": "string",
      "author": "string",
      "score": 0,
      "body": "string",
      "created_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
      "permalink": "string",
      "parent_id": "string",
      "is_submitter": true,
      "controversiality": 0
    }
  ],
  "after": "string",
  "filtered_nsfw": 0,
  "degraded": true
}

{
  "error": "unauthorized: missing or invalid credentials",
  "error_code": "insufficient_credits"
}

{
  "error": "unauthorized: missing or invalid credentials",
  "error_code": "insufficient_credits"
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "not_found",
    "message": "string",
    "retryable": true,
    "retry_after": 0
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "not_found",
    "message": "string",
    "retryable": true,
    "retry_after": 0
  }
}

{
  "error": "unauthorized: missing or invalid credentials",
  "error_code": "insufficient_credits"
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "not_found",
    "message": "string",
    "retryable": true,
    "retry_after": 0
  }
}