Every comment on one Hacker News discussion
Give it a Hacker News item link and it returns the story plus its whole comment tree flattened into rows: author, posted time, depth, parentId, storyId, the story title and the comment text, up to 200 comments and ten levels deep. Paste several links to do several threads in one run, or raise commentsMinLength to drop one-liners before they are charged. $0.20 per 1,000 items.
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