> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.scrapebadger.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Comments & Likers

> Paginated comments on a media, plus the likers of a comment.

Page through a media's `comments`, or list the `likers` of a comment.

**Credits:** 8 (`comments`, `comments/{comment_id}/likers`)

## Authorization

<ParamField header="X-API-Key" type="string" required>
  Your ScrapeBadger API key.
</ParamField>

## Path Parameters

<ParamField path="code" type="string" required>
  Media shortcode.
</ParamField>

<ParamField path="comment_id" type="string">
  **Comment-liker path only** — the parent comment's `pk`.
</ParamField>

## Query Parameters

<ParamField query="amount" type="integer" default="20">Page size.</ParamField>
<ParamField query="cursor" type="string">Opaque next-page token from a previous `next_cursor`.</ParamField>

## Paths

* `GET /v1/instagram/media/{code}/comments` — top-level comments.
* `GET /v1/instagram/media/{code}/comments/{comment_id}/likers` — likers of a comment.

## Response

<ResponseField name="items" type="Comment[] | UserShort[]">
  For the comments path a `Comment`: `pk`, `text`, `user`, `created_at`,
  `created_at_utc`, `like_count`, `has_liked`. For the comment-liker path a `UserShort`.
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="count" type="integer" />

<ResponseField name="next_cursor" type="string">Null when exhausted.</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="has_more" type="boolean" />

## Example

<CodeGroup>
  ```bash cURL theme={null}
  curl "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/instagram/media/C8xYzAbCdE1/comments?amount=20" \
    -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"
  ```

  ```javascript Node.js theme={null}
  const res = await fetch(
    "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/instagram/media/C8xYzAbCdE1/comments?amount=20",
    { headers: { "X-API-Key": process.env.SCRAPEBADGER_API_KEY } },
  );
  const { items, next_cursor } = await res.json();
  ```

  ```python Python theme={null}
  import requests

  res = requests.get(
      "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/instagram/media/C8xYzAbCdE1/comments",
      headers={"X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
      params={"amount": 20},
  )
  page = res.json()
  ```
</CodeGroup>

```json Response theme={null}
{
  "items": [
    {
      "pk": "17900000000000000",
      "text": "This is amazing!",
      "user": { "pk": "998877", "username": "fan_account", "is_verified": false },
      "created_at": "2026-07-30T18:10:00Z",
      "created_at_utc": 1785434600,
      "like_count": 412,
      "has_liked": false
    }
  ],
  "count": 1,
  "next_cursor": "QVFE...==",
  "has_more": true
}
```