Reddit API/Post/Fetch Reddit APP Comment Replies (Sub-comments)
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Reddit Fetch Reddit APP Comment Replies (Sub-comments) API

Get replies (second-level comments / sub-comments) under a specified comment on Reddit APP When a comment node has a more.cursor field, use this API to fetch the sub-comments of that comment Steps: 1. First call fetch_post_comments to get the top-level comments of a post 2. Find the node with sub-comments in the returned data (childCount > 0) 3. Get the more.cursor value of that node 4. Use that cursor to call this API to get sub-comments Note: The cursor value comes from the more.cursor field in the comment data Path example: $.data.postInfoById.commentForest.trees[*].more.cursor Cursor format is similar to: "commenttree:ex:(RjiJd"

GET/v1/reddit/fetch_comment_replies
post_idstringrequired

Post ID, format: "t3_XXXXXX"

cursorstringrequired

Comment cursor, obtained from the more.cursor field in the comment data, format: "commenttree:ex:(xxx)"

sort_typestringoptional

Sort order, default is CONFIDENCE Options: CONFIDENCE, NEW, TOP, HOT, CONTROVERSIAL, OLD, RANDOM

need_formatbooleanoptional

Whether to clean/sanitize the data

Reddit API Use Cases

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