GET /comments/{post_id}.json

reddit.com:reddit-api

Summary: Get post details and comments
Operation ID: getPostComments
Auth: unknown
Description

Retrieves a specific post and its comments.

Parameters (4)

depth (integer, query, optional, default: 5)

Maximum depth of comment tree to return

Constraints: {'minimum': 1, 'maximum': 10}

limit (integer, query, optional, default: 25)

Maximum number of comments to return

Constraints: {'minimum': 1, 'maximum': 100}

post_id (string, path, required)

The base36 ID of the post

sort (string, query, optional, default: confidence)

Comment sorting method

Constraints: {'enum': ['confidence', 'top', 'new', 'controversial', 'old', 'random', 'qa', 'live']}

Examples (2)

TitleTypeURLAction
Get post and comments by ID only openapi-spec https://www.reddit.com/comments/1rrgb4d.json
Get post details and comments openapi-spec https://www.reddit.com/comments/1abcdef.json

Probe History

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TimeStatusLatencySize
2026-03-23 09:39:40.769865 200 1097ms
2026-03-23 09:30:28.203567 403 664ms

Response Changes

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2026-03-23 09:39:40.769865 3583b7131587 379133fc8ba7