Lobsters · Example Payload

Comment

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Comment is an example object payload from Lobsters, with 14 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

short_idshort_id_urlurlcreated_atlast_edited_atis_deletedis_moderatedscoreflagsparent_commentcommentcomment_plaindepthcommenting_user

Example Payload

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{
  "short_id": "xyzpqr",
  "short_id_url": "https://lobste.rs/c/xyzpqr",
  "url": "https://lobste.rs/s/abcdef/interesting_advances_in_compiler_optimization#c_xyzpqr",
  "created_at": "2026-06-10T15:05:00.000Z",
  "last_edited_at": "2026-06-10T15:05:00.000Z",
  "is_deleted": false,
  "is_moderated": false,
  "score": 8,
  "flags": 0,
  "parent_comment": null,
  "comment": "<p>Great article. The LLVM pass described in section 3 is particularly clever.</p>",
  "comment_plain": "Great article. The LLVM pass described in section 3 is particularly clever.",
  "depth": 0,
  "commenting_user": "bob"
}