Snapchat Comments API. Spotlight comments and replies, page by page.

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Returns the comments on a public Snapchat Spotlight, or one comment's replies, from the Spotlight's link or ID. Each comment has its text, posting time, exact like and reply counts, whether the Spotlight's poster wrote or favorited it, and the commenter's ID, name, picture, verified badge, and username where Snapchat shows one. Comments come a page at a time, in Snapchat's own ranking.

GET /v1/snapchat/comments

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16 typed fields null when unknown
26 spotlight comments and replies per page, Snapchat's own ranking of the Spotlight's comments; a comment's replies oldest first
url is all it needs, e.g. https://www.snapchat.com/@mrbeast/spotlight/W7_EDlXWTBiXAEEniNoMPwAAYbHZzZmtrYm1jAZhMOQmTAZhMOQfqAAAAAQ

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$ npm install socialtap

url = https://www.snapchat.com/@mrbeast/spotlight/W7_EDlXWTBiXAEEniNoMPwAAYbHZzZmtrYm1jAZhMOQmTAZhMOQfqAAAAAQ

Open in playground

GET /v1/snapchat/commentsTry in

const params = new URLSearchParams({
  url: "https://www.snapchat.com/@mrbeast/spotlight/W7_EDlXWTBiXAEEniNoMPwAAYbHZzZmtrYm1jAZhMOQmTAZhMOQfqAAAAAQ",
});
const res = await fetch(`https://socialtap.dev/v1/snapchat/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/snapchat/comments",
    params={"url": "https://www.snapchat.com/@mrbeast/spotlight/W7_EDlXWTBiXAEEniNoMPwAAYbHZzZmtrYm1jAZhMOQmTAZhMOQfqAAAAAQ"},
    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/snapchat/comments")
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form('url' => 'https://www.snapchat.com/@mrbeast/spotlight/W7_EDlXWTBiXAEEniNoMPwAAYbHZzZmtrYm1jAZhMOQmTAZhMOQfqAAAAAQ')
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([
    'url' => 'https://www.snapchat.com/@mrbeast/spotlight/W7_EDlXWTBiXAEEniNoMPwAAYbHZzZmtrYm1jAZhMOQmTAZhMOQfqAAAAAQ',
]);
$ch = curl_init('https://socialtap.dev/v1/snapchat/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("url", "https://www.snapchat.com/@mrbeast/spotlight/W7_EDlXWTBiXAEEniNoMPwAAYbHZzZmtrYm1jAZhMOQmTAZhMOQfqAAAAAQ")
	req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://socialtap.dev/v1/snapchat/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 -G 'https://socialtap.dev/v1/snapchat/comments' \
  --data-urlencode 'url=https://www.snapchat.com/@mrbeast/spotlight/W7_EDlXWTBiXAEEniNoMPwAAYbHZzZmtrYm1jAZhMOQmTAZhMOQfqAAAAAQ' \
  -H "x-api-key: $SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"

{
  "data": [
    {
      "approximate_fields": [],
      "author": {
        "avatar_url": "https://cf-st.sc-cdn.net/3d/render/38357514-103501769400_23-s5-v1.webp?ua=2",
        "display_name": "Sadeeq™️",
        "id": "5c3014ea-7aef-433d-be14-617eef3666bb",
        "is_verified": false,
        "url": null,
        "username": null
      },
      "edited_at": null,
      "id": "a592688a-c0e3-4544-9441-665cbcc684ac",
      "is_by_post_author": false,
      "is_edited": null,
      "is_liked_by_author": false,
      "is_pinned": null,
      "metrics": {
        "like_count": 1592,
        "reply_count": 13
      },
      "parent_id": null,
      "platform": "snapchat",
      "platform_specific": {
        "snapchat": {
          "author_user_id": "5c3014ea-7aef-433d-be14-617eef3666bb"
        }
      },
      "post_id": "W7_EDlXWTBiXAEEniNoMPwAAYbHZzZmtrYm1jAZhMOQmTAZhMOQfqAAAAAQ",
      "published_at": "2025-07-27T14:25:17Z",
      "text": "You cheater 😭",
      "unknown_fields": [],
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "approximate_fields": [],
      "author": {
        "avatar_url": "https://cf-st.sc-cdn.net/3d/render/31151407-103950905393_19-s5-v1.webp?ua=2",
        "display_name": "Lucy",
        "id": "838f5544-0aa2-40b5-9911-d310032b3d87",
        "is_verified": false,
        "url": null,
        "username": null
      },
      "edited_at": null,
      "id": "a7c58936-d969-4205-b114-aa8ba9cc841c",
      "is_by_post_author": false,
      "is_edited": null,
      "is_liked_by_author": false,
      "is_pinned": null,
      "metrics": {
        "like_count": 1299,
        "reply_count": 72
      },
      "parent_id": null,
      "platform": "snapchat",
      "platform_specific": {
        "snapchat": {
          "author_user_id": "838f5544-0aa2-40b5-9911-d310032b3d87"
        }
      },
      "post_id": "W7_EDlXWTBiXAEEniNoMPwAAYbHZzZmtrYm1jAZhMOQmTAZhMOQfqAAAAAQ",
      "published_at": "2025-09-14T15:23:53Z",
      "text": "Mr beast haters-------------------------->",
      "unknown_fields": [],
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "approximate_fields": [],
      "author": {
        "avatar_url": "https://cf-st.sc-cdn.net/aps/bolt/aHR0cHM6Ly9jZi1zdC5zYy1jZG4ubmV0L2QvdnNRVVdPN3dJTTJETHF5T3ZzSE1KP2JvPUVna3lBUVJJQWxBWllBRSUzRCZ1Yz0yNQ._RS0,640_FMjpeg",
        "display_name": "𝐊𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐚💋ྀི",
        "id": "e6252914-86c7-4aef-86fe-e53f0dd89218",
        "is_verified": false,
        "url": null,
        "username": null
      },
      "edited_at": null,
      "id": "00c351f3-6d8d-43fa-ab44-0ffbb6b5b210",
      "is_by_post_author": false,
      "is_edited": null,
      "is_liked_by_author": false,
      "is_pinned": null,
      "metrics": {
        "like_count": 1385,
        "reply_count": 9
      },
      "parent_id": null,
      "platform": "snapchat",
      "platform_specific": {
        "snapchat": {
          "author_user_id": "a53d0b5d-5c95-4a79-bb04-02931574f0be"
        }
      },
      "post_id": "W7_EDlXWTBiXAEEniNoMPwAAYbHZzZmtrYm1jAZhMOQmTAZhMOQfqAAAAAQ",
      "published_at": "2025-08-04T17:06:39Z",
      "text": "Bro this is cheating",
      "unknown_fields": [],
      "url": null
    }
  ],
  "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": "snapchat",
    "source": "api",
    "is_cached": false,
    "credits_charged": 1,
    "latency_ms": 343,
    "fetched_at": "2026-10-25T12:00:00Z",
    "input": {
      "kind": "post",
      "id": "W7_EDlXWTBiXAEEniNoMPwAAYbHZzZmtrYm1jAZhMOQmTAZhMOQfqAAAAAQ",
      "url": "https://www.snapchat.com/spotlight/W7_EDlXWTBiXAEEniNoMPwAAYbHZzZmtrYm1jAZhMOQmTAZhMOQfqAAAAAQ"
    },
    "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.snapchat.comments.list({ url: "https://www.snapchat.com/@mrbeast/spotlight/W7_EDlXWTBiXAEEniNoMPwAAYbHZzZmtrYm1jAZhMOQmTAZhMOQfqAAAAAQ" });
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 = "url=" + encode("https://www.snapchat.com/@mrbeast/spotlight/W7_EDlXWTBiXAEEniNoMPwAAYbHZzZmtrYm1jAZhMOQmTAZhMOQfqAAAAAQ");
        HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
            .uri(URI.create("https://socialtap.dev/v1/snapchat/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("&",
    "url=" + Uri.EscapeDataString("https://www.snapchat.com/@mrbeast/spotlight/W7_EDlXWTBiXAEEniNoMPwAAYbHZzZmtrYm1jAZhMOQmTAZhMOQfqAAAAAQ"));
var res = await http.GetAsync("https://socialtap.dev/v1/snapchat/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/snapchat/comments")
        .query(&[("url", "https://www.snapchat.com/@mrbeast/spotlight/W7_EDlXWTBiXAEEniNoMPwAAYbHZzZmtrYm1jAZhMOQmTAZhMOQfqAAAAAQ")])
        .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(())
}

200 OK · GET https://socialtap.dev/v1/snapchat/commentsLong arrays and strings are shortened here. Real responses are complete.Docs

One schema on 9 platforms.

The response reference lists every field, its type and when it is null. See the full schema.

Null means unknown
A field Snapchat doesn't show is null, never zero or an empty string, so a real zero always means zero.
What it accepts
The Spotlight: its link (https://www.snapchat.com/@mrbeast/spotlight/<id>, /spotlight/<id>, /add/<name>/spotlight/<id>, /p/<publisher>/spotlight/<id>, /web/spotlight/<id>, with or without /embed, or a share link) or its bare ID.
Write one parser
Snapchat, TikTok, Instagram and 6 more platforms answer in these fields, so the code that reads one reads them all.

platformstring: Platform ID (tiktok, youtube, …).
idstring: Platform-native comment ID (string; Reddit with its t1_ prefix).
post_idstring: ID of the post commented on (equals post.id).
parent_idstring: ID of the comment this replies to; null for top-level comments.
urlstring: Permalink, when the platform has one.
textstring: Comment body as plain text.
authorobject: The commenting account. An account the platform no longer names (a deleted account) has a null id and username and the platform's label as display_name (Reddit: [deleted]).
published_atstring: When the comment was posted, RFC 3339 UTC. Where the platform shows only a relative time ("3 weeks ago"), the latest time that label allows (the fetch time minus the stated amount), listed in approximate_fields.

What teams build with the Snapchat Comments API.

Read what people say under a creator's Spotlights
Collect comments and replies for sentiment analysis
Find a Spotlight's most liked comments
See which comments a creator favorited

Good to know before you build.

Snapchat's walk repeats comments: a later page can hold a comment an earlier one did, so deduplicate by id. Within one page they are distinct.
The list is in Snapchat's own ranking, not by time, so since and until only filter it, and a walk ends with max_pages after a few pages with nothing in the window. Replies come oldest first.
A walk ends when Snapchat stops giving a next page, which can be before the Spotlight's comment count, as that count also holds replies and comments Snapchat doesn't list.
Snapchat shows only a display name for most commenters, so their author.username and author.url are null. author.id is then their user ID, or the ID of their public profile (as the Snapchat Profile API returns it) where they have one.
An account can replace its public profile, so an older comment can name an older author.id. platform_specific.snapchat.author_user_id is the one that stays the same.
An account Snapchat no longer names shows as Snapchatter, with every other author field null.
A Spotlight that is gone returns not_found when it has no comments. Snapchat keeps serving the comments of some removed Spotlights, and those are returned.
comment_id lists an existing comment's replies. A comment ID Snapchat doesn't know returns an empty list, because Snapchat doesn't tell it apart from a comment with no replies, and metrics.reply_count can be a little above what the walk returns.
Snapchat has no link to one comment, so url is null. It shows no pins or edits logged out, so is_pinned, is_edited and edited_at are null.

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Snapchat Comments API. Spotlight comments and replies, page by page.

Snapchat Comments API at a glance

Send one request. Get up to 26 spotlight comments and replies back.

One schema on 9 platforms.

Null means unknown

What it accepts

Write one parser

What teams build with the Snapchat Comments API.

Read what people say under a creator's Spotlights

Collect comments and replies for sentiment analysis

Find a Spotlight's most liked comments

See which comments a creator favorited

Good to know before you build.

1 credit per page. Failed requests are free.

Questions about the Snapchat Comments API.

Comments on 8 more platforms.

Snapchat API. 3 endpoints, one key.

Try it on a link you already have.