reddit_archive_comments_search
Search archived Reddit comments by text, author, subreddit, post, or parent comment, then narrow results with creation-date bounds to find historical discussions.
Instructions
Search archived Reddit comments. Searches Arctic Shift's public historical comment archive. Supply at least one of query, author, subreddit, link_id, or parent_id; date bounds can further narrow that search. query searches comment body text and must be combined with author, subreddit, link_id, or parent_id; it maps to Arctic Shift's body parameter. Arctic Shift may time out or throttle broad searches, which return 503 with Retry-After. created_after/created_before are time boundaries, not Reddit listing cursors. Each comment includes created_utc and retrieved_on; archived scores can lag changes for roughly 36 hours. A valid query with no matches returns an empty comments array.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| sort | No | Sort by creation time | |
| limit | No | Maximum comments, defaults to 25 and clamps to 100 | |
| query | No | Full-text search within comment bodies; requires author, subreddit, link_id, or parent_id | |
| author | No | Public Reddit username filter | |
| link_id | No | Reddit post id to scope comments | |
| parent_id | No | Parent comment id; an explicitly empty value selects top-level comments | |
| subreddit | No | Subreddit name filter | |
| created_after | No | Creation-time lower bound; accepts epoch seconds or milliseconds, ISO 8601 dates, or relative offsets such as 1year, 2d, or 5min | |
| created_before | No | Creation-time upper bound; accepts epoch seconds or milliseconds, ISO 8601 dates, or relative offsets such as 1year, 2d, or 5min |