Get Reddit Post Comments by Permalink

Full comment tree for a post by permalink. Returns a clean wrapper with the post, native Reddit comment tree nodes, and a pagination cursor.

Query Parameters

Example

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  "https://api.redditapis.com/api/reddit/comments?permalink=/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1sgjld3/"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.redditapis.com/api/reddit/comments?permalink=/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1sgjld3/",
  { headers: { Authorization: "Bearer TOKEN" } }
);

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.redditapis.com/api/reddit/comments",
    params={"permalink": "/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1sgjld3/"},
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer TOKEN"},
)

Response Shape

{
  "post": { "...": "same post shape as /api/reddit/post/:id" },
  "comments": [
    {
      "kind": "t1",
      "data": { "id": "abc", "body": "...", "author": "user123" }
    }
  ],
  "after": null
}

comments is Reddit's native comment tree — each node has kind: "t1" and data.replies containing child comments. post follows the posts field shape.

Fetch by post ID instead of permalink

If you already have the post ID and not the full permalink, call the ID form. It returns the exact same response shape at the same price, so you never have to build a permalink just to read a thread.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  "https://api.redditapis.com/api/reddit/comments/1sgjld3"

This is an alias of GET /api/reddit/post/{postId}/comments — both run the same handler. All three of these return the same thing:

Adding the ID form did not change the permalink form above — it still works exactly as documented, and existing integrations need no changes.