Reddit Comment Search API. Comments matching your search.

const params = new URLSearchParams({
  query: "golang",
});
const res = await fetch(`https://socialtap.dev/v1/reddit/search_comments?${params}`, {
  headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALTAP_API_KEY ?? "" },
});
const body = await res.json();
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`${body.error.code}: ${body.error.message}`);
const { data, page, meta } = body;
console.log(data, meta.credits_charged);

import os

import requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://socialtap.dev/v1/reddit/search_comments",
    params={"query": "golang"},
    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"]},
)
body = res.json()
if not res.ok:
    raise RuntimeError(f"{body['error']['code']}: {body['error']['message']}")
data, page, meta = body["data"], body["page"], body["meta"]
print(data, meta["credits_charged"])

require "json"
require "net/http"

uri = URI("https://socialtap.dev/v1/reddit/search_comments")
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form('query' => 'golang')
req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
req["x-api-key"] = ENV.fetch("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY")
res = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, use_ssl: uri.scheme == "https") { |http| http.request(req) }
body = JSON.parse(res.body)
raise "#{body["error"]["code"]}: #{body["error"]["message"]}" unless res.is_a?(Net::HTTPSuccess)
pp body["data"]
puts body["meta"]["credits_charged"]

<?php

$query = http_build_query([
    'query' => 'golang',
]);
$ch = curl_init('https://socialtap.dev/v1/reddit/search_comments?' . $query);
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => ['x-api-key: ' . getenv('SOCIALTAP_API_KEY')],
]);
$body = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);
if (curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE) >= 400) {
    throw new RuntimeException($body['error']['code'] . ': ' . $body['error']['message']);
}
print_r($body['data']);
echo $body['meta']['credits_charged'], PHP_EOL;

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"net/http"
	"net/url"
	"os"
)

func main() {
	q := url.Values{}
	q.Set("query", "golang")
	req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://socialtap.dev/v1/reddit/search_comments?"+q.Encode(), nil)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	req.Header.Set("x-api-key", os.Getenv("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"))
	res, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()
	var body struct {
		Data  json.RawMessage `json:"data"`
		Page  json.RawMessage `json:"page"`
		Meta  map[string]any  `json:"meta"`
		Error *struct {
			Code    string `json:"code"`
			Message string `json:"message"`
		} `json:"error"`
	}
	if err := json.NewDecoder(res.Body).Decode(&body); err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	if body.Error != nil {
		log.Fatalf("%s: %s", body.Error.Code, body.Error.Message)
	}
	fmt.Println(string(body.Data), body.Meta["credits_charged"])
}

curl 'https://socialtap.dev/v1/reddit/search_comments?query=golang' \
  -H "x-api-key: $SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"

{
  "data": [
    {
      "approximate_fields": [],
      "author": {
        "avatar_url": "https://www.redditstatic.com/avatars/defaults/v2/avatar_default_4.png",
        "display_name": null,
        "id": null,
        "is_verified": null,
        "url": "https://www.reddit.com/user/TheHeretic/",
        "username": "TheHeretic"
      },
      "edited_at": null,
      "id": "t1_19rgj26rxh943",
      "is_by_post_author": null,
      "is_edited": null,
      "is_liked_by_author": null,
      "is_pinned": null,
      "metrics": {
        "like_count": 391,
        "reply_count": null
      },
      "parent_id": null,
      "platform": "reddit",
      "platform_specific": {
        "reddit": {
          "award_count": null,
          "depth": null,
          "distinguished": null,
          "is_collapsed": null,
          "is_deleted": null,
          "more_replies_count": null,
          "post": {
            "comment_count": 633,
            "is_nsfw": false,
            "is_spoiler": false,
            "published_at": "2026-10-21T23:38:18Z",
            "score": 1258,
            "title": "Aside from hacking TVs to remove ads, what’s another cool/innovative way you’ve used claude to boost your quality of life",
            "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xc31hj/aside_from_hacking_tvs_to_remove_ads_whats/"
          },
          "reply_to_author": null,
          "score": 391,
          "subreddit": {
            "id": "t5_7t8hvt",
            "name": "ClaudeAI",
            "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/"
          }
        }
      },
      "post_id": "t3_1xc31hj",
      "published_at": "2026-10-22T00:29:40Z",
      "text": "Reverse engineering Microsoft teams to make a golang version that only uses ~120mb of RAM as compared to 3GiB on Mac",
      "unknown_fields": [],
      "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xc31hj/aside_from_hacking_tvs_to_remove_ads_whats/19rgj26rxh943/"
    },
    {
      "approximate_fields": [],
      "author": {
        "avatar_url": "https://www.redditstatic.com/avatars/defaults/v2/avatar_default_3.png",
        "display_name": null,
        "id": null,
        "is_verified": null,
        "url": "https://www.reddit.com/user/Conflict-Mother/",
        "username": "Conflict-Mother"
      },
      "edited_at": null,
      "id": "t1_19s0zx668qjgj",
      "is_by_post_author": null,
      "is_edited": null,
      "is_liked_by_author": null,
      "is_pinned": null,
      "metrics": {
        "like_count": 1,
        "reply_count": null
      },
      "parent_id": "t1_19s0zmg6ic9hh",
      "platform": "reddit",
      "platform_specific": {
        "reddit": {
          "award_count": null,
          "depth": null,
          "distinguished": null,
          "is_collapsed": null,
          "is_deleted": null,
          "more_replies_count": null,
          "post": {
            "comment_count": 17,
            "is_nsfw": false,
            "is_spoiler": false,
            "published_at": "2026-11-02T11:19:09Z",
            "score": 0,
            "title": "Synology has abandaned beloved VideoStation, now I re-create it",
            "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/synology/comments/1xlujkl/synology_has_abandaned_beloved_videostation_now_i/"
          },
          "reply_to_author": null,
          "score": 1,
          "subreddit": {
            "id": "t5_2s4co",
            "name": "synology",
            "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/synology/"
          }
        }
      },
      "post_id": "t3_1xlujkl",
      "published_at": "2026-11-02T11:50:12Z",
      "text": "yes single binary is the most gain from. In idle status, MyVideoStation in docker occupy about 25MB mem as I see, and even when scanning golang's mem gc is working very well. Because of all htmls are served from embed, it is blazing fast too.",
      "unknown_fields": [],
      "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/synology/comments/1xlujkl/synology_has_abandaned_beloved_videostation_now_i/19s0zx668qjgj/"
    },
    {
      "approximate_fields": [],
      "author": {
        "avatar_url": "https://www.redditstatic.com/shreddit/assets/avatar_over18.png",
        "display_name": null,
        "id": null,
        "is_verified": null,
        "url": "https://www.reddit.com/user/lispLaiBhari/",
        "username": "lispLaiBhari"
      },
      "edited_at": null,
      "id": "t1_19s0kg7kv3uzp",
      "is_by_post_author": null,
      "is_edited": null,
      "is_liked_by_author": null,
      "is_pinned": null,
      "metrics": {
        "like_count": 1,
        "reply_count": null
      },
      "parent_id": "t1_19s0jm74i7yxx",
      "platform": "reddit",
      "platform_specific": {
        "reddit": {
          "award_count": null,
          "depth": null,
          "distinguished": null,
          "is_collapsed": null,
          "is_deleted": null,
          "more_replies_count": null,
          "post": {
            "comment_count": 13,
            "is_nsfw": false,
            "is_spoiler": false,
            "published_at": "2026-11-02T05:33:45Z",
            "score": 7,
            "title": "Kuberenetes home lab suggestion",
            "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes/comments/1xlozgi/kuberenetes_home_lab_suggestion/"
          },
          "reply_to_author": null,
          "score": 1,
          "subreddit": {
            "id": "t5_33f68",
            "name": "kubernetes",
            "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes/"
          }
        }
      },
      "post_id": "t3_1xlozgi",
      "published_at": "2026-11-02T06:03:20Z",
      "text": "Thanks. So i want to learn Kubernetes along with CI/CD. Currently working in golang application side but wanted to do this setup and experiment.\n\nOne laptop and one mini-PC(mid range), will this suffice to experiment on prem K8S/CI/CD?",
      "unknown_fields": [],
      "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes/comments/1xlozgi/kuberenetes_home_lab_suggestion/19s0kg7kv3uzp/"
    }
  ],
  "page": {
    "has_more": true,
    "next_cursor": "c1.EXAMPLE_CURSOR",
    "next_cursor_expires_at": "2026-10-26T12:00:00Z",
    "end_reason": null
  },
  "meta": {
    "request_id": "req_3f9c2a7d1e8b4c6a9f0e2d4b6a8c0e1f",
    "platform": "reddit",
    "source": "page",
    "is_cached": false,
    "credits_charged": 1,
    "latency_ms": 581,
    "fetched_at": "2026-10-25T12:00:00Z",
    "input": null,
    "credits_remaining": 9999,
    "client_request_id": null,
    "warnings": []
  }
}

import { SocialTap } from "socialtap";

const client = new SocialTap(); // apiKey defaults to process.env.SOCIALTAP_API_KEY

const res = await client.reddit.searchComments.list({ query: "golang" });
console.log(res.data);
console.log(res.credits.charged, res.meta.request_id);

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.URLEncoder;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        String query = "query=" + encode("golang");
        HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
            .uri(URI.create("https://socialtap.dev/v1/reddit/search_comments?" + query))
            .header("x-api-key", System.getenv("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"))
            .GET()
            .build();
        HttpResponse<String> response = HttpClient.newHttpClient()
            .send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        // An error is {"error": {"code", "message", ...}}; success is {data, meta}, meta.credits_charged its price.
        if (response.statusCode() >= 400) throw new RuntimeException(response.body());
        System.out.println(response.body());
    }

    static String encode(String value) {
        return URLEncoder.encode(value, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
    }
}

using System.Text.Json;

using var http = new HttpClient();
http.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("x-api-key", Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"));

var query = string.Join("&",
    "query=" + Uri.EscapeDataString("golang"));
var res = await http.GetAsync("https://socialtap.dev/v1/reddit/search_comments?" + query);
using var body = JsonDocument.Parse(await res.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());
if (!res.IsSuccessStatusCode)
{
    var error = body.RootElement.GetProperty("error");
    throw new Exception($"{error.GetProperty("code")}: {error.GetProperty("message")}");
}
Console.WriteLine(body.RootElement.GetProperty("data"));
Console.WriteLine(body.RootElement.GetProperty("meta").GetProperty("credits_charged"));

// Cargo.toml: reqwest = { version = "0.12", features = ["blocking", "json"] }, serde_json = "1"
use std::env;

fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    let res = reqwest::blocking::Client::new()
        .get("https://socialtap.dev/v1/reddit/search_comments")
        .query(&[("query", "golang")])
        .header("x-api-key", env::var("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY")?)
        .send()?;
    let ok = res.status().is_success();
    let body: serde_json::Value = res.json()?;
    if !ok {
        return Err(format!("{}: {}", body["error"]["code"], body["error"]["message"]).into());
    }
    println!("{} {}", body["data"], body["meta"]["credits_charged"]);
    Ok(())
}