---
title: "Comment by id"
method: GET
path: "/api/comments/{id}"
tags: ["comments"]
---

# Comment by id

`GET /api/comments/{id}`

This endpoint allows the client to retrieve a comment as well as his descendants comments.

  It will return the required comment (the root) with its nested descendants as a thread.

  See the format specification for further details.

## Path parameters

- `id` integer, required

## Response `200`

A List of the Comments

## Other responses

- `404` — Comment Not Found

## Changes

- **2026-07-13** (v1) `7db6ba099285` — 2 breaking
  - removed the media type `application/json` for the response with the status `200`
  - removed the media type `application/json` for the response with the status `404`
- **2026-05-28** (v1) `6550ad7be94f` — 2 info
  - added the media type `application/json` for the response with the status `200`
  - added the media type `application/json` for the response with the status `404`
- **2026-03-03** (v1) `c9e7662755c2` — 2 breaking
  - removed the media type `application/json` for the response with the status `200`
  - removed the media type `application/json` for the response with the status `404`
- **2023-12-18** (v1) `1c81594090c0` — 2 info
  - added the media type `application/json` for the response with the status `200`
  - added the media type `application/json` for the response with the status `404`
- **2023-12-12** (v1) `3ab0f1109fb2` — 2 breaking
  - removed the media type `application/json` for the response with the status `200`
  - removed the media type `application/json` for the response with the status `404`

[Full history](https://skmtc.dev/forem/apis/forem-api-v1/changes/api/comments/:id/get.md)

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