/lemmy/comments/search

POST /api/lemmy/comments/search

Price: 20 credits

Search Lemmy comments by free text across the network or inside one community, each with its text, author, vote tally, descendant comment count and the post and community it belongs to

How to use it

This searches comment bodies only — a term appearing in a post title will not surface here, so pair it with lemmy/posts/search when looking for a topic. Matches come from the whole network as the `instance` sees it, and each row carries the submission it belongs to under `post`, whose vote and comment counts are absent here — read them from lemmy/posts with `post.url`.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• instance string — Lemmy instance domain to read from. Any instance answers for the whole network, and its own view of vote and comment counts is what you get (default: "lemmy.world"; examples: "lemmy.world", "lemmy.ml", "sopuli.xyz"; minLength: 1)
• query string required — Free-text query matched against comment bodies (examples: "rust gpu"; minLength: 1)
• count integer required — Max number of comments to return (examples: 50; min: 1; max: 4000)
• community string nullable — Restrict to one community, as `name@instance`, a bare `name` hosted by the instance, or a /c/ URL (examples: "technology@lemmy.world"; minLength: 1)
• sort string nullable — Ordering applied by the instance (one of: "Active", "Hot", "New", "Old", "Scaled", "Controversial", "MostComments", "NewComments", "TopHour", "TopSixHour", "TopTwelveHour", "TopDay", "TopWeek", "TopMonth", "TopThreeMonths", "TopSixMonths", "TopNineMonths", "TopYear", "TopAll")
• listing_type string nullable — `Local` keeps only comments whose community is hosted on the instance, regardless of the author's own instance; `All` includes federated communities too (one of: "All", "Local")

Response

• @type string (default: "LemmyComment")
• id string required
• url string nullable
• text string nullable
• path string nullable
• depth integer nullable
• parent_comment_id string nullable
• language_id string nullable
• is_local boolean nullable
• is_removed boolean nullable
• is_deleted boolean nullable
• is_distinguished boolean nullable
• is_author_admin boolean nullable
• is_author_moderator boolean nullable
• created_at integer nullable
• updated_at integer nullable
• score integer nullable
• upvote_count integer nullable
• downvote_count integer nullable
• reply_count integer nullable
• author object nullable
  • @type string (default: "LemmyUser")
  • id string required
  • url string nullable
  • alias string nullable
  • name string nullable
  • bio string nullable
  • image string nullable
  • banner string nullable
  • matrix_user_id string nullable
  • instance_id string nullable
  • is_local boolean nullable
  • is_bot boolean nullable
  • is_banned boolean nullable
  • is_deleted boolean nullable
  • is_admin boolean nullable
  • ban_expires_at integer nullable
  • created_at integer nullable
  • updated_at integer nullable
  • post_count integer nullable
  • comment_count integer nullable
  • moderated_communities array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "LemmyCommunity")
    • id string required
    • url string nullable
    • alias string nullable
    • community_title string nullable
    • description string nullable
    • image string nullable
    • banner string nullable
    • visibility string nullable
    • instance_id string nullable
    • is_local boolean nullable
    • is_nsfw boolean nullable
    • is_removed boolean nullable
    • is_deleted boolean nullable
    • is_hidden boolean nullable
    • is_posting_restricted_to_mods boolean nullable
    • created_at integer nullable
    • updated_at integer nullable
    • subscriber_count integer nullable
    • local_subscriber_count integer nullable
    • post_count integer nullable
    • comment_count integer nullable
    • active_day_user_count integer nullable
    • active_week_user_count integer nullable
    • active_month_user_count integer nullable
    • active_half_year_user_count integer nullable
    • moderators array (default: [])
• community object nullable
  • @type string (default: "LemmyCommunity")
  • id string required
  • url string nullable
  • alias string nullable
  • community_title string nullable
  • description string nullable
  • image string nullable
  • banner string nullable
  • visibility string nullable
  • instance_id string nullable
  • is_local boolean nullable
  • is_nsfw boolean nullable
  • is_removed boolean nullable
  • is_deleted boolean nullable
  • is_hidden boolean nullable
  • is_posting_restricted_to_mods boolean nullable
  • created_at integer nullable
  • updated_at integer nullable
  • subscriber_count integer nullable
  • local_subscriber_count integer nullable
  • post_count integer nullable
  • comment_count integer nullable
  • active_day_user_count integer nullable
  • active_week_user_count integer nullable
  • active_month_user_count integer nullable
  • active_half_year_user_count integer nullable
  • moderators array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "LemmyUser")
    • id string required
    • url string nullable
    • alias string nullable
    • name string nullable
    • bio string nullable
    • image string nullable
    • banner string nullable
    • matrix_user_id string nullable
    • instance_id string nullable
    • is_local boolean nullable
    • is_bot boolean nullable
    • is_banned boolean nullable
    • is_deleted boolean nullable
    • is_admin boolean nullable
    • ban_expires_at integer nullable
    • created_at integer nullable
    • updated_at integer nullable
    • post_count integer nullable
    • comment_count integer nullable
    • moderated_communities array (default: [])
• post object nullable
  • @type string (default: "LemmyPost")
  • id string required
  • url string nullable
  • post_title string nullable
  • text string nullable
  • link_url string nullable
  • link_content_type string nullable
  • thumbnail string nullable
  • alt_text string nullable
  • embed_title string nullable
  • embed_description string nullable
  • embed_video_url string nullable
  • media object nullable
    • @type string (default: "LemmyImage")
    • image string nullable
    • width integer nullable
    • height integer nullable
    • content_type string nullable
  • language_id string nullable
  • is_local boolean nullable
  • is_nsfw boolean nullable
  • is_locked boolean nullable
  • is_removed boolean nullable
  • is_deleted boolean nullable
  • is_featured_community boolean nullable
  • is_featured_local boolean nullable
  • is_author_admin boolean nullable
  • is_author_moderator boolean nullable
  • created_at integer nullable
  • updated_at integer nullable
  • score integer nullable
  • upvote_count integer nullable
  • downvote_count integer nullable
  • comment_count integer nullable
  • newest_comment_at integer nullable
  • author object nullable
    • @type string (default: "LemmyUser")
    • id string required
    • url string nullable
    • alias string nullable
    • name string nullable
    • bio string nullable
    • image string nullable
    • banner string nullable
    • matrix_user_id string nullable
    • instance_id string nullable
    • is_local boolean nullable
    • is_bot boolean nullable
    • is_banned boolean nullable
    • is_deleted boolean nullable
    • is_admin boolean nullable
    • ban_expires_at integer nullable
    • created_at integer nullable
    • updated_at integer nullable
    • post_count integer nullable
    • comment_count integer nullable
    • moderated_communities array (default: [])
      • @type string (default: "LemmyCommunity")
      • id string required
      • url string nullable
      • alias string nullable
      • community_title string nullable
      • description string nullable
      • image string nullable
      • banner string nullable
      • visibility string nullable
      • instance_id string nullable
      • is_local boolean nullable
      • is_nsfw boolean nullable
      • is_removed boolean nullable
      • is_deleted boolean nullable
      • is_hidden boolean nullable
      • is_posting_restricted_to_mods boolean nullable
      • created_at integer nullable
      • updated_at integer nullable
      • subscriber_count integer nullable
      • local_subscriber_count integer nullable
      • post_count integer nullable
      • comment_count integer nullable
      • active_day_user_count integer nullable
      • active_week_user_count integer nullable
      • active_month_user_count integer nullable
      • active_half_year_user_count integer nullable
      • moderators array (default: [])
  • community object nullable
    • @type string (default: "LemmyCommunity")
    • id string required
    • url string nullable
    • alias string nullable
    • community_title string nullable
    • description string nullable
    • image string nullable
    • banner string nullable
    • visibility string nullable
    • instance_id string nullable
    • is_local boolean nullable
    • is_nsfw boolean nullable
    • is_removed boolean nullable
    • is_deleted boolean nullable
    • is_hidden boolean nullable
    • is_posting_restricted_to_mods boolean nullable
    • created_at integer nullable
    • updated_at integer nullable
    • subscriber_count integer nullable
    • local_subscriber_count integer nullable
    • post_count integer nullable
    • comment_count integer nullable
    • active_day_user_count integer nullable
    • active_week_user_count integer nullable
    • active_month_user_count integer nullable
    • active_half_year_user_count integer nullable
    • moderators array (default: [])
      • @type string (default: "LemmyUser")
      • id string required
      • url string nullable
      • alias string nullable
      • name string nullable
      • bio string nullable
      • image string nullable
      • banner string nullable
      • matrix_user_id string nullable
      • instance_id string nullable
      • is_local boolean nullable
      • is_bot boolean nullable
      • is_banned boolean nullable
      • is_deleted boolean nullable
      • is_admin boolean nullable
      • ban_expires_at integer nullable
      • created_at integer nullable
      • updated_at integer nullable
      • post_count integer nullable
      • comment_count integer nullable
      • moderated_communities array (default: [])
  • cross_posts array (default: [])

Errors

• 422 — community is not a Lemmy community handle, or instance is not a domain Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — No such post, comment, community or user on this Lemmy instance, or the instance did not answer the Lemmy API Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.