Endpoint Playground
Searches Arctic Shift's public historical comment archive. Supply at least one of query, author, subreddit, link_id, or parent_id; date bounds can further narrow that search. query searches comment body text and must be combined with author, subreddit, link_id, or parent_id; it maps to Arctic Shift's body parameter. Arctic Shift may time out or throttle broad searches, which return 503 with Retry-After. created_after/created_before are time boundaries, not Reddit listing cursors. Each comment includes created_utc and retrieved_on; archived scores can lag changes for roughly 36 hours. A valid query with no matches returns an empty comments array.
curl 'https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/reddit/archive/comments/search?sort=asc' \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"| Parameter | Type | Required | Prefilled value | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| author | string | No | Public Reddit username filter | |
| subreddit | string | No | Subreddit name filter | |
| query | string | No | Full-text search within comment bodies; requires author, subreddit, link_id, or parent_id | |
| link_id | string | No | Reddit post id to scope comments | |
| parent_id | string | No | Parent comment id; an explicitly empty value selects top-level comments | |
| created_after | string | No | Creation-time lower bound; accepts epoch seconds or milliseconds, ISO 8601 dates, or relative offsets such as 1year, 2d, or 5min | |
| created_before | string | No | Creation-time upper bound; accepts epoch seconds or milliseconds, ISO 8601 dates, or relative offsets such as 1year, 2d, or 5min | |
| sort | string | No | asc | Sort by creation time |
| limit | integer | No | Maximum comments, defaults to 25 and clamps to 100 |
{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": {
"author": "example_user",
"subreddit": "OpenAI",
"link_id": "t3_abc123",
"sort": "desc",
"limit": 25,
"comments": [
{
"id": "dppum98",
"author": "example_user",
"body": "Example archived comment",
"created_utc": 1700000000,
"retrieved_on": 1700000100,
"subreddit": "OpenAI",
"link_id": "t3_abc123",
"parent_id": "t3_abc123",
"score": 3
}
],
"source": {
"type": "arctic_shift",
"url": "https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/api/comments/search?author=example_user&limit=25&sort=desc"
}
}
}The sample response, schema and code snippets below work without an account. Sending a live request needs an API key.