Get Kalshi comments

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Get public Kalshi Social comments: a trader’s recent comments with the post (trade idea) each one answers, or a post with all its comments. Posts include the market, side, position cost and payout, return and engagement counts.

GET/v1/kalshi/commentsx-api-key

Headers

Get your API key

x-api-keystringrequiredheader

Your ScrapeAtlas customer key. Create one on /account/ and set SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY.

Query parameters

nicknamestringquery

A trader’s nickname: returns their recent comments. Provide nickname or postId.

ExampleDegenJohnny

postIdstringquery

A post UUID: returns the post and its comments.

limitstringquery

With nickname: comments to return, 1–20; default 20.

Example10

Response fields

140

requestIdstring

Request correlation UUID.

Upstream requests, decoded response bytes and elapsed milliseconds.

accounting.upstreamRequestsinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.responseBytesinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.durationMsnumber

Always included.

≥ 0

successboolean

True when usable data is returned; inspect status and coverage for omissions.

statusenum

success, partial, failed or challenged. HTTP 200 can be partial.

one of: success, partial

sourceUrlstring

Kalshi public API URL the data was read from.

absolute HTTPS URL

fetchedAtstring

UTC retrieval time.

order is source_order. complete is false with comment_limit when a post has more than 500 comments.

coverage.sourcestring

Always included.

coverage.completeboolean

Always included.

coverage.warningsstring[]

Always included.

coverage.orderenum

Always included.

one of: newest_first, oldest_first, ranked, relevance, source_order

Optional.

coverage.window.sincestringoptional

Optional.

coverage.window.untilstringoptional

Optional.

With postId: the post with Kalshi’s field names: id, nickname, content, media, market_ticker, market_title, event_ticker, series_tickers, side, cost_cents, payout_if_win_cents, paid_out_cents, value_cents, dollar_roi, percentage_roi, position_odds, likes_count, comments_count, copy_trades_count, bookmarks_count, view_count and created_ts (Unix microseconds).

post.idstring

Always included.

post.social_idstringoptional

Optional.

post.nicknamestringoptional

Optional.

post.x_handlestringoptional

Optional.

post.post_typestringoptional

Optional.

post.post_subtypestringoptional

Optional.

post.contentstringoptional

Optional.

post.market_tickerstringoptional

Optional.

post.market_titlestringoptional

Optional.

post.event_tickerstringoptional

Optional.

post.event_titlestringoptional

Optional.

post.event_long_titlestringoptional

Optional.

post.series_tickersstring[]optional

Optional.

up to 50 items

post.series_titlestringoptional

Optional.

post.derivative_typestringoptional

Optional.

post.sidestringoptional

Optional.

post.image_pathsstring[]nullableoptional

Optional.

post.media.providerstringoptional

Optional.

post.media.provider_idstringoptional

Optional.

post.media.urlstringoptional

Optional.

post.media.content_typestringoptional

Optional.

post.cost_centsintegernullableoptional

Optional.

post.payout_if_win_centsintegernullableoptional

Optional.

post.paid_out_centsintegernullableoptional

Optional.

post.value_centsintegernullableoptional

Optional.

post.dollar_roinumberoptional

Optional.

post.percentage_roinumberoptional

Optional.

post.position_oddsintegeroptional

Optional.

post.num_positions_on_eventintegernullableoptional

Optional.

post.likes_countintegeroptional

Optional.

post.comments_countintegeroptional

Optional.

post.copy_trades_countintegeroptional

Optional.

post.bookmarks_countintegeroptional

Optional.

post.view_countintegeroptional

Optional.

post.likedbooleanoptional

Optional.

post.bookmarkedbooleanoptional

Optional.

post.is_notablebooleanoptional

Optional.

post.created_tsinteger

Always included.

post.profile_image_pathstringoptional

Optional.

post.product_metadataobjectoptional

Optional.

With postId: comments with id, post_id, parent_comment_id (replies), nickname, content, depth, likes_count, is_deleted, media and created_ts (Unix microseconds).

up to 500 items

comments.idstring

Always included.

comments.post_idstring

Always included.

comments.parent_comment_idstringoptional

Optional.

comments.social_idstring

Always included.

comments.nicknamestring

Always included.

comments.contentstring

Always included.

comments.image_pathstringoptional

Optional.

comments.profile_image_pathstringoptional

Optional.

comments.created_tsinteger

Always included.

comments.depthinteger

Always included.

comments.likes_countinteger

Always included.

comments.likedbooleanoptional

Optional.

comments.is_deletedboolean

Always included.

Optional.

comments.media.providerstringoptional

Optional.

comments.media.provider_idstringoptional

Optional.

comments.media.urlstringoptional

Optional.

comments.media.content_typestringoptional

Optional.

With nickname: entries of comment and the post it answers.

up to 20 items

Always included.

posts_and_comments.comment.idstring

Always included.

posts_and_comments.comment.post_idstring

Always included.

posts_and_comments.comment.parent_comment_idstringoptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.comment.social_idstring

Always included.

posts_and_comments.comment.nicknamestring

Always included.

posts_and_comments.comment.contentstring

Always included.

posts_and_comments.comment.image_pathstringoptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.comment.profile_image_pathstringoptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.comment.created_tsinteger

Always included.

posts_and_comments.comment.depthinteger

Always included.

posts_and_comments.comment.likes_countinteger

Always included.

posts_and_comments.comment.likedbooleanoptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.comment.is_deletedboolean

Always included.

Optional.

posts_and_comments.comment.media.providerstringoptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.comment.media.provider_idstringoptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.comment.media.urlstringoptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.comment.media.content_typestringoptional

Optional.

Always included.

posts_and_comments.post.idstring

Always included.

posts_and_comments.post.social_idstringoptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.post.nicknamestringoptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.post.x_handlestringoptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.post.post_typestringoptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.post.post_subtypestringoptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.post.contentstringoptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.post.market_tickerstringoptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.post.market_titlestringoptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.post.event_tickerstringoptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.post.event_titlestringoptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.post.event_long_titlestringoptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.post.series_tickersstring[]optional

Optional.

up to 50 items

posts_and_comments.post.series_titlestringoptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.post.derivative_typestringoptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.post.sidestringoptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.post.image_pathsstring[]nullableoptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.post.media.providerstringoptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.post.media.provider_idstringoptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.post.media.urlstringoptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.post.media.content_typestringoptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.post.cost_centsintegernullableoptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.post.payout_if_win_centsintegernullableoptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.post.paid_out_centsintegernullableoptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.post.value_centsintegernullableoptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.post.dollar_roinumberoptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.post.percentage_roinumberoptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.post.position_oddsintegeroptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.post.num_positions_on_eventintegernullableoptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.post.likes_countintegeroptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.post.comments_countintegeroptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.post.copy_trades_countintegeroptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.post.bookmarks_countintegeroptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.post.view_countintegeroptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.post.likedbooleanoptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.post.bookmarkedbooleanoptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.post.is_notablebooleanoptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.post.created_tsinteger

Always included.

posts_and_comments.post.profile_image_pathstringoptional

Optional.

posts_and_comments.post.product_metadataobjectoptional

Optional.

HTTP 200 returns the success variant. Check status: partial means usable data with warnings, and failed or challenged requests carry a failure object described in Errors & responses.

Error codes

HTTP	failure.code	Meaning
200	`partial`	Usable data with market_limit, metadata_unavailable, candle_limit, window_truncated, comment_limit or metrics_unavailable warnings.
400	`invalid_request`	Missing, duplicate, malformed or unsupported parameters, a link outside kalshi.com/markets, a price-history window above its period limit, or parameters Kalshi rejected.
401	`unauthorized`	Missing or invalid worker API key.
404	`not_found`	Unknown market, event, series, post or trader.
429	`upstream_rate_limited`	Kalshi rate limited the request.
502	`upstream_challenged`	Kalshi refused the public request.
502	`unsupported_page`	Malformed, mismatched or non-JSON source data.
502	`response_too_large` `payload_too_complex`	Response exceeded byte or parsing limits.
502	`unsafe_redirect` `request_limit` `upstream_error`	Bounded source retrieval could not complete.
503	`busy`	All worker slots and the waiting queue are occupied.
504	`timeout`	Total request deadline expired.

Code example

curl "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/kalshi/comments?nickname=DegenJohnny&limit=10" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/kalshi/comments?nickname=DegenJohnny&limit=10",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
    }
  }
);

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data.status, data);

type Result = {
  status: "success" | "partial" | "failed" | "challenged";
  requestId: string;
  [field: string]: unknown;
};

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/kalshi/comments?nickname=DegenJohnny&limit=10",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": process.env.SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY!
    }
  }
);

const data = (await response.json()) as Result;
if (data.status === "failed" || data.status === "challenged") {
  throw new Error(`Kalshi request failed: ${data.requestId}`);
}
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/kalshi/comments",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "nickname": "DegenJohnny",
        "limit": "10"
    },
    timeout=60,
)
data = response.json()
print(data["status"], data)

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/kalshi/comments?nickname=DegenJohnny&limit=10", nil)
	req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	var data map[string]interface{}
	json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&data)
	fmt.Println(data["status"], data)
}

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        var client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
        var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
            .uri(URI.create("https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/kalshi/comments?nickname=DegenJohnny&limit=10"))
            .GET()
            .header("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
            .build();
        var response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        System.out.println(response.body());
    }
}

Use your sa_live_… customer key at https://api.scrapeatlas.com.

Responses

Successful result. Synthetic example validated against the runtime contract.

{
  "success": true,
  "status": "success",
  "requestId": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000001",
  "sourceUrl": "https://api.elections.kalshi.com/v1/social/posts/11111111-2222-4333-8444-555555555555",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-10-13T00:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_api",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": [],
    "order": "source_order"
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 2,
    "responseBytes": 1800,
    "durationMs": 340
  },
  "post": {
    "id": "11111111-2222-4333-8444-555555555555",
    "social_id": "aaaaaaaa-bbbb-4ccc-8ddd-eeeeeeeeeeee",
    "nickname": "synthetic.trader",
    "post_type": "idea",
    "post_subtype": "",
    "content": "Synthetic trade idea",
    "market_ticker": "KXSYNTH-30-AAA",
    "market_title": "Will the synthetic team win?",
    "event_ticker": "KXSYNTH-30",
    "event_title": "Synthetic championship",
    "event_long_title": "Synthetic championship winner",
    "series_tickers": [
      "KXSYNTH"
    ],
    "series_title": "Synthetic championship",
    "derivative_type": "contract",
    "side": "yes",
    "image_paths": null,
    "media": null,
    "cost_cents": 2348,
    "payout_if_win_cents": 29726,
    "paid_out_cents": null,
    "value_cents": 2348,
    "dollar_roi": 0,
    "percentage_roi": 0,
    "position_odds": 7,
    "num_positions_on_event": 1,
    "likes_count": 3,
    "comments_count": 1,
    "copy_trades_count": 0,
    "bookmarks_count": 0,
    "view_count": 131,
    "liked": false,
    "bookmarked": false,
    "created_ts": 1782792095061855,
    "profile_image_path": "synthetic-image",
    "product_metadata": {}
  },
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": "22222222-3333-4444-8555-666666666666",
      "post_id": "11111111-2222-4333-8444-555555555555",
      "social_id": "aaaaaaaa-bbbb-4ccc-8ddd-eeeeeeeeeeee",
      "nickname": "synthetic.trader",
      "content": "Synthetic reply",
      "image_path": "",
      "profile_image_path": "synthetic-image",
      "created_ts": 1782792121604405,
      "depth": 0,
      "likes_count": 1,
      "liked": false,
      "is_deleted": false,
      "media": null
    }
  ]
}

Missing, duplicate, malformed or unsupported parameters, a link outside kalshi.com/markets, a price-history window above its period limit, or parameters Kalshi rejected.

{
  "requestId": "9d2f1c0a-6b1e-4c7d-9a8e-2f3b4c5d6e7f",
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 0,
    "responseBytes": 0,
    "durationMs": 0
  },
  "success": false,
  "status": "failed",
  "failure": {
    "code": "invalid_request",
    "message": "Invalid request: missing, duplicate, unsupported or malformed parameters."
  }
}