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Run job:reddit.post.comments through the looot API: 3 providers, from $0.001 per call. Inputs, prices, output shape and code for curl, JavaScript and Python.

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Job id reddit.post.comments, in Social data (Reddit). As of 2026-10-01, 3 providers serve it through 3 tools. Run job:reddit.post.comments and looot picks one of them; with fallback on, a miss moves on to the next. See Jobs.

Inputs

Fields the job’s tools take, most shared first. Any key you send passes through unchanged.

Name	Type	Taken by	Required by	Description
`after`	string	1 of 3	0	Pagination parameter for fetching next page
`cursor`	string	1 of 3	0
`language`	string	1 of 3	0	Preferred response language as an IETF language tag; default: en-US
`need_format`	boolean	1 of 3	0	Whether to clean and format the data
`post_id`	string	1 of 3	1	Post ID
`post_url`	string	1 of 3	1	Reddit post URL or path. Example: “/r/DogAdvice/comments/1o2g2pq/i_think_i_need_to_rehome_my_dog/”
`sort_type`	string	1 of 3	0	Sort method: CONFIDENCE, NEW, TOP, HOT, CONTROVERSIAL, OLD, RANDOM
`timeout`	integer	1 of 3	0	Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds)
`trim`	boolean	1 of 3	0	Example: “false”
`url`	string	1 of 3	1
`x-request-id`	string	1 of 3	0

Providers and prices

Provider	Tool	Price
TikHub	`tikhub-api-reddit-app-fetch-post-comments`	$0.001 per call
ScrapeCreators	`scrapecreators-reddit-post-comments-get`	$0.00188 per call
Anysite	`anysite-api-reddit-posts-comments`	$0.0036 per call

A call that fails at the provider costs $0. See What’s free.

Output

Each provider answers in its own shape. Shape of the run’s result from anysite-api-reddit-posts-comments, checked against 2 real answers:

{ id, text, @type, depth, score, author: { id, name, @type }, replies: { id, text, @type, depth, score, author: { id, name, @type }, replies: { id, text, @type, depth, score, author: { ... }, replies: unknown[], parent_id, created_at, is_deleted, is_submitter, replies_count }[], parent_id, created_at, is_deleted, is_submitter, replies_count }[], parent_id, created_at, is_deleted, is_submitter, replies_count }[]

Run it

Every call needs your API token in LOOOT_TOKEN; Sign in shows how to get one. Each run also needs a new idempotency key, so a retry never pays twice. With wait: 30 the answer comes back inline when the run ends within 30 seconds. Otherwise you get the running run back: poll GET /v1/runs/<runId>.

Example input with placeholder values:

curl -X POST "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOOOT_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{"endpointId":"job:reddit.post.comments","input":{"post_id":"<post_id>"},"wait":30}'

const response = await fetch("https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.LOOOT_TOKEN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    endpointId: "job:reddit.post.comments",
    input: {
      post_id: "<post_id>",
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);

import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['LOOOT_TOKEN']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "endpointId": "job:reddit.post.comments",
        "input": {
            "post_id": "<post_id>",
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))

To pin one provider, send its tool id as endpointId instead of job:reddit.post.comments.