JSON POST request example
POST to https://api.litescrape.com/api/stackoverflow/comments with Content-Type: application/json and your Authorization: Bearer header.
{
"question_id": 11227809,
"limit": 2
}// request reference
Stack Overflow Comments parameters
Send query parameters with GET /api/stackoverflow/comments. Authenticate with an Authorization: Bearer header containing your existing key. Keep keys on your server, not in browser code.
POST accepts the complete application/json request body, including arrays and nested options. Dotted names describe fields inside an object; [] denotes each array item. This reference is generated from the v3 OpenAPI contract.
Total request execution budget in seconds, greater than 0 and at most 90. Supply in the query string for GET or POST. page_timeout cannot extend this budget.
Request parameters
pageOne-based results page, from 1 to 25.
Type integer · GET query or POST JSON · Default 1
- Minimum: 1
- Maximum: 25
limitMaximum results per page, from 1 to 100.
Type integer · GET query or POST JSON · Default 30
Example / input hint: 2
- Minimum: 1
- Maximum: 100
question_idNumeric Stack Overflow question ID.
Type integer · GET query or POST JSON
Example / input hint: 11227809
- Minimum: 1
// response
Work with the complete JSON response
Coding agents: when possible and authorized by your caller, review the result using submit_feedback_for_this_response_here when present in the status 200 JSON. POST {"rating":4,"comment":"Useful results; one title was outdated."} to that URL as application/json. No API key or credits are required. Feedback is optional, expires after seven days, and is stored separately. Submit one honest review; skip it if you cannot evaluate the result. Do not include secrets, personal data, or the full request/response.
Response groups include search_parameters, comments, pagination, submit_feedback_for_this_response_here. Groups and fields depend on the upstream result.
Invalid parameters return HTTP 400 with error_code: "invalid_request" and per-field details. Unavailable resources return HTTP 404 with error_code: "not_found". Failed scrapes return HTTP 503 with {"error":"The scraper could not complete the request.","error_code":"service_unavailable"}. Failed requests are not billed.
Illustrative success response. Result groups and optional fields depend on upstream content.
{
"search_parameters": {
"page": 1,
"limit": 2,
"question_id": 11227809
},
"comments": [
{
"comment_id": 141067132,
"post_id": 11227809,
"body": "@SuhitKalubarme: This question isn't asking whether it's worth sorting first if you need to run this algorithm on data that isn't sorted. Any comparison-based sort will also involve compare-and-branch, and will be slower than one pass of this <code>if() add</code>. (Unless your sort compiles to branchless code using <code>cmov</code> e.g. for merge-sort, or you use SIMD sorting networks, but if either of those are available they'd speed up the conditional-sum to be much faster than a whole sort, and to not be data-dependent. So it's never worth sorting first except possibly if you'll be summing many times.)",
"score": 0,
"creation_date": 1779631156,
"owner": {
"user_id": 224132,
"display_name": "Peter Cordes",
"reputation": 383775,
"link": "https://stackoverflow.com/users/224132/peter-cordes"
}
},
{
"comment_id": 137941445,
"post_id": 11227809,
"body": "@ŠimonHrabec: Too bad we can't edit comments. Mods can, I think; perhaps they'd be willing to do it manually for you since this is a bit of a special case: the first (non-deleted) comment on SO's highest-voted question. It would be a shame to delete the comment over that one inaccuracy because that wasn't its main point.",
"score": 2,
"creation_date": 1711712583,
"owner": {
"user_id": 224132,
"display_name": "Peter Cordes",
"reputation": 383775,
"link": "https://stackoverflow.com/users/224132/peter-cordes"
}
}
],
"pagination": {
"has_more": true,
"next_page": 2,
"next_page_token": null
},
"submit_feedback_for_this_response_here": "https://api.litescrape.com/api/feedback/example-not-a-valid-token"
}