---
title: "Get a Hacker News story’s comments"
method: GET
path: "/v1/hackernews/story/comments"
tags: ["Hacker News"]
---

# Get a Hacker News story’s comments

`GET /v1/hackernews/story/comments`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.scrapeatlas.com`
- URL: `https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/hackernews/story/comments`
- Auth: API key in header `x-api-key`

Retrieve a nested Hacker News comment tree with comment fields and children. Bound the walk with depth and limit to read only the levels you need. Deleted comments retain null author and text values, and coverage describes the returned tree. Each successful request costs 1 account credit, including partial results. Failed requests cost 0 credits.

## Query parameters

- `id` string, required
- `depth` string
- `limit` string

## Response `200`

Inspect the response status and failure or coverage fields.

- union
  - object
    - `requestId` string, uuid, required
    - `accounting` object, required
      - `upstreamRequests` integer, required
      - `responseBytes` integer, required
      - `durationMs` number, required
    - `success` true, required
    - `status` 'success' | 'partial', required
    - `sourceUrl` string, uri, required
    - `fetchedAt` string, date-time, required
    - `coverage` object, required
      - `source` 'public_api', required
      - `complete` boolean, required
      - `warnings` string[], required
    - `id` integer, required
    - `type` string, required
    - `commentCount` integer, required
    - `maxDepth` integer, required
    - `comments` object[], required
  - object
    - `requestId` string, uuid, required
    - `accounting` object, required
      - `upstreamRequests` integer, required
      - `responseBytes` integer, required
      - `durationMs` number, required
    - `success` false, required
    - `status` 'failed' | 'challenged', required
    - `failure` object, required
      - `code` 'invalid_request' | 'unauthorized' | 'not_found' | 'upstream_challenged' | 'upstream_rate_limited' | 'upstream_error' | 'unsupported_page' | 'response_too_large' | 'unsafe_redirect' | 'request_limit' | 'timeout' | 'busy' | 'payload_too_complex', required
      - `message` string, required

## Other responses

- `400`: Request could not complete; inspect error or failure.code.
- `401`: Request could not complete; inspect error or failure.code.
- `402`: Request could not complete; inspect error or failure.code.
- `403`: Request could not complete; inspect error or failure.code.
- `404`: Request could not complete; inspect error or failure.code.
- `408`: Request could not complete; inspect error or failure.code.
- `413`: Request could not complete; inspect error or failure.code.
- `429`: Request could not complete; inspect error or failure.code.
- `500`: Request could not complete; inspect error or failure.code.
- `502`: Request could not complete; inspect error or failure.code.
- `503`: Request could not complete; inspect error or failure.code.
- `504`: Request could not complete; inspect error or failure.code.

---

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