# Reddit Search Comments API (https://www.socialcrawl.dev/platforms/reddit/search-comments)

> Searches Reddit's COMMENT index directly, so a phrase that only ever appears three levels deep inside someone's reply is reachable in one call. Every other comment surface on this API needs a post you have already found; this one does not. Each hit arrives with its parent post inline, because a bare comment body off a search index is unreadable without it: `ext.post_title`, `ext.subreddit`, `ext.subreddit_subscribers`, `ext.post_score`, `ext.post_comment_count`, `ext.post_author`, `ext.post_published_at`, `ext.post_flair`, `ext.post_url` and `ext.content_language`. Reddit's search operators work in `query`, which is where most of the power is: `author:username` returns that account's indexed comments, `subreddit:name terms` scopes the sweep to one community, and quoted phrases tighten a loose match. `comment.parent_id` is null on this lane and that is honest rather than missing — the upstream does not say whether a hit is a top-level comment or a deep reply, and this API does not guess. Up to 25 hits per page; paginate with `cursor`. A query that matches nothing still returns a full page of loosely-related comments rather than an empty list, which is Reddit's own search behaviour on both of this API's Reddit upstreams, so judge relevance on the rows rather than on the count.

TL;DR: `GET /v1/reddit/search/comments` costs 1 credit per call and returns SocialCrawl's unified JSON schema. Single x-api-key auth, 100 free credits on signup.

## Parameters

| Parameter | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `query` | yes | Search phrase. Reddit's operators work here: `author:username` for one account's comments, `subreddit:name terms` to scope to a community, and quotes for an exact phrase. |
| `sort` | no | Sort order for the comment hits. (relevance \| top \| new) |
| `cursor` | no | Cursor to get more results. Get 'cursor' from the previous response. |

## Code example

```bash
curl "https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/reddit/search/comments?query=best%20project%20management%20software" \
  -H "x-api-key: sc_YOUR_API_KEY"
```

See the full Reddit API: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/platforms/reddit

## Pricing

- Standard endpoints: 1 credit per call
- Advanced endpoints: 5 credits per call
- Premium endpoints: 10 credits per call
- 100 free credits on signup, no credit card required. Cached responses cost 0 credits. Credit packs never expire.
- Full pricing: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/pricing