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POST
/
v2
/
commentannotations
/
get
Get Comment Annotations
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.velt.dev/v2/commentannotations/get \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'x-velt-api-key: <x-velt-api-key>' \
  --header 'x-velt-auth-token: <x-velt-auth-token>' \
  --data '{
  "data": {
    "organizationId": "<string>",
    "documentId": "<string>",
    "documentIds": [
      "<string>"
    ],
    "groupByDocumentId": true,
    "locationIds": [
      "<string>"
    ],
    "folderId": "<string>",
    "annotationIds": [
      "<string>"
    ],
    "userIds": [
      "<string>"
    ],
    "statusIds": [
      "<string>"
    ],
    "updatedAfter": 123,
    "updatedBefore": 123,
    "createdAfter": 123,
    "createdBefore": 123,
    "pageSize": 123,
    "pageToken": "<string>"
  }
}'
{
  "result": {
    "status": "success",
    "message": "Annotations fetched successfully.",
    "data": [
      {
        "comments": [
          {
            "commentId": 123456,
            "type": "text",
            "to": [],
            "status": "updated",
            "attachments": [],
            "recorders": [],
            "reactionAnnotationIds": [
              "TPVIZ7VH6rgh4nKm2xjs",
              "REgRT9CY852tr12m3kto"
            ],
            "taggedUserContacts": [],
            "customList": [],
            "toOrganizationUserGroup": [],
            "commentText": "This is a sample comment text.",
            "commentHtml": "<p>This is a sample comment text.</p>",
            "lastUpdated": "2023-06-15T10:30:00Z",
            "createdAt": 1687344600000,
            "from": {
              "userId": "user123",
              "organizationId": "d448b95936703db7d0923122172fb13c",
              "userSnippylyId": "1174701858709696",
              "photoUrl": "",
              "initial": "J",
              "clientUserName": "John Doe",
              "name": "John Doe",
              "clientOrganizationId": "yourOrganizationId",
              "plan": "trial",
              "email": "john.doe@example.com",
              "color": "#a259fe",
              "textColor": "#FFFFFF",
              "isAdmin": true
            },
            "isDraft": false,
            "isCommentTextAvailable": true
          }
        ],
        "type": "comment",
        "status": {
          "id": "OPEN",
          "name": "Open",
          "color": "var(--velt-accent, #625DF5)",
          "lightColor": "var(--velt-accent-light, #E7E8FA)",
          "type": "default",
          "svg": "\n      <svg\n        width=\"16\"\n        height=\"16\"\n        viewBox=\"0 0 16 16\"\n        fill=\"none\"\n        xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"\n      >\n        <path\n          fill-rule=\"evenodd\"\n          clip-rule=\"evenodd\"\n          d=\"M8.00016 13.3333C10.9457 13.3333 13.3335 10.9455 13.3335 8.00001C13.3335 5.05449 10.9457 2.66668 8.00016 2.66668C5.05464 2.66668 2.66683 5.05449 2.66683 8.00001C2.66683 10.9455 5.05464 13.3333 8.00016 13.3333ZM8.00016 14.6667C11.6821 14.6667 14.6668 11.6819 14.6668 8.00001C14.6668 4.31811 11.6821 1.33334 8.00016 1.33334C4.31826 1.33334 1.3335 4.31811 1.3335 8.00001C1.3335 11.6819 4.31826 14.6667 8.00016 14.6667Z\"\n          fill=\"currentColor\"\n        />\n      </svg>\n      "
        },
        "pageInfo": {
          "deviceInfo": {
            "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/142.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
            "browserName": "Chrome",
            "browserVersion": "142",
            "deviceType": "Tablet",
            "orientation": "landscape",
            "osName": "Macintosh",
            "osVersion": "10.15.7",
            "screenWidth": 1512,
            "screenHeight": 982
          },
          "url": "https://example.com/document",
          "path": "/document",
          "queryParams": "",
          "baseUrl": "https://example.com",
          "title": "Document Title",
          "screenWidth": 1512,
          "commentUrl": "https://example.com/document?scommentId=yourAnnotationId"
        },
        "customList": [],
        "subscribedUsers": {
          "061a01a98f80f415b1431236b62bb10b": {
            "user": {
              "userId": "user123"
            },
            "type": "auto"
          }
        },
        "unsubscribedUsers": {},
        "subscribedGroups": {},
        "from": {
          "userId": "user123",
          "organizationId": "d448b95936703db7d0923122172fb13c",
          "userSnippylyId": "1174701858709696",
          "photoUrl": "",
          "initial": "J",
          "clientUserName": "John Doe",
          "name": "John Doe",
          "clientOrganizationId": "yourOrganizationId",
          "plan": "trial",
          "email": "john.doe@example.com",
          "color": "#a259fe",
          "textColor": "#FFFFFF",
          "isAdmin": true
        },
        "lastUpdated": 1687344661000,
        "createdAt": 1687344600000,
        "annotationId": "yourAnnotationId",
        "metadata": {
          "apiKey": "yourApiKey",
          "documentId": "yourDocumentId",
          "organizationId": "yourOrganizationId"
        },
        "annotationNumber": 1,
        "annotationIndex": 2
      },
      null // null is returned only if you provided an annotationId that doesn't exist
    ],
    "nextPageToken": "pageToken"
  }
}
Use this API to retrieve comment annotations from a document within an organization. Additional filters can be applied using location IDs, annotation IDs, or user IDs.
Prior to using this API, you must:
  • Enable advanced queries option in the console
  • Deploy v4 series of the Velt SDK.

Endpoint

POST https://api.velt.dev/v2/commentannotations/get

Headers

x-velt-api-key
string
required
Your API key.
x-velt-auth-token
string
required

Body

Params

data
object
required

Example Requests

1. Get annotations by organizationId and documentId

{
  "data": {
    "organizationId": "yourOrganizationId",
    "documentId": "yourDocumentId",
    "pageSize": 10,
    "pageToken": "1720441573192",
    "statusId": "OPEN"
  }
}

2. Get annotations by organizationId and documentIds grouped by documentId

{
  "data": {
    "organizationId": "yourOrganizationId",
    "documentIds": ["yourDocumentId1", "yourDocumentId2"],
    "groupByDocumentId": true
  }
}

3. Get annotations by organizationId, documentId, and locationIds

{
  "data": {
    "organizationId": "yourOrganizationId",
    "documentId": "yourDocumentId",
    "locationIds": [
      "locationx"
    ],
    "pageSize": 10,
    "pageToken": "1720441573192",
    "statusId": "OPEN"
  }
}

4. Get annotations by organizationId, documentId, locationIds, and userIds

{
  "data": {
    "organizationId": "yourOrganizationId",
    "documentId": "yourDocumentId",
    "locationIds": [
      "locationx"
    ],
    "userIds": [
      "yourUserId"
    ],
    "pageSize": 10,
    "pageToken": "1720441573192",
    "statusId": "OPEN"
  }
}

5. Get annotations by organizationId, documentId, and userIds

{
  "data": {
    "organizationId": "yourOrganizationId",
    "documentId": "yourDocumentId",
    "userIds": [
      "yourUserId"
    ],
    "pageSize": 10,
    "pageToken": "1720441573192",
    "statusId": "OPEN"
  }
}

6. Get annotations by organizationId, documentId, and annotationIds

{
  "data": {
    "organizationId": "yourOrganizationId",
    "documentId": "yourDocumentId",
    "annotationIds": [
      "yourAnnotationId1",
      "yourAnnotationId2"
    ],
    "pageSize": 10,
    "pageToken": "1720441573192",
    "statusId": "OPEN"
  }
}

7. Get annotations by organizationId, documentId, locationIds, and annotationIds

{
  "data": {
    "organizationId": "yourOrganizationId",
    "documentId": "yourDocumentId",
    "locationIds": [
      "locationx"
    ],
    "annotationIds": [
      "yourAnnotationId1",
      "yourAnnotationId2"
    ],
    "pageSize": 10,
    "pageToken": "1720441573192",
    "statusId": "OPEN"
  }
}

8. Get annotations by organizationId, statusIds, updatedAfter, and updatedBefore

{
   "data": {
       "organizationId": "myorg1",
       "statusIds": ["OPEN"],
       "updatedAfter": 1720441573192,
       "updatedBefore": 1720441573192,
   }
}

9. Get annotations by organizationId, folderId

{
   "data": {
       "organizationId": "myorg1",
       "folderId": "folderId1"
   }
}

Response

Response Field Notes:
  • reactionAnnotationIds: Returns an array of reaction annotation IDs (strings), not full reaction objects
  • viewedBy: This field is not currently returned by this endpoint
  • createdAt and lastUpdated: Timestamps are returned in milliseconds since epoch for annotations and in ISO 8601 format for comments

Success Response with single documentId

{
  "result": {
    "status": "success",
    "message": "Annotations fetched successfully.",
    "data": [
      {
        "comments": [
          {
            "commentId": 123456,
            "type": "text",
            "to": [],
            "status": "updated",
            "attachments": [],
            "recorders": [],
            "reactionAnnotationIds": [
              "TPVIZ7VH6rgh4nKm2xjs",
              "REgRT9CY852tr12m3kto"
            ],
            "taggedUserContacts": [],
            "customList": [],
            "toOrganizationUserGroup": [],
            "commentText": "This is a sample comment text.",
            "commentHtml": "<p>This is a sample comment text.</p>",
            "lastUpdated": "2023-06-15T10:30:00Z",
            "createdAt": 1687344600000,
            "from": {
              "userId": "user123",
              "organizationId": "d448b95936703db7d0923122172fb13c",
              "userSnippylyId": "1174701858709696",
              "photoUrl": "",
              "initial": "J",
              "clientUserName": "John Doe",
              "name": "John Doe",
              "clientOrganizationId": "yourOrganizationId",
              "plan": "trial",
              "email": "john.doe@example.com",
              "color": "#a259fe",
              "textColor": "#FFFFFF",
              "isAdmin": true
            },
            "isDraft": false,
            "isCommentTextAvailable": true
          }
        ],
        "type": "comment",
        "status": {
          "id": "OPEN",
          "name": "Open",
          "color": "var(--velt-accent, #625DF5)",
          "lightColor": "var(--velt-accent-light, #E7E8FA)",
          "type": "default",
          "svg": "\n      <svg\n        width=\"16\"\n        height=\"16\"\n        viewBox=\"0 0 16 16\"\n        fill=\"none\"\n        xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"\n      >\n        <path\n          fill-rule=\"evenodd\"\n          clip-rule=\"evenodd\"\n          d=\"M8.00016 13.3333C10.9457 13.3333 13.3335 10.9455 13.3335 8.00001C13.3335 5.05449 10.9457 2.66668 8.00016 2.66668C5.05464 2.66668 2.66683 5.05449 2.66683 8.00001C2.66683 10.9455 5.05464 13.3333 8.00016 13.3333ZM8.00016 14.6667C11.6821 14.6667 14.6668 11.6819 14.6668 8.00001C14.6668 4.31811 11.6821 1.33334 8.00016 1.33334C4.31826 1.33334 1.3335 4.31811 1.3335 8.00001C1.3335 11.6819 4.31826 14.6667 8.00016 14.6667Z\"\n          fill=\"currentColor\"\n        />\n      </svg>\n      "
        },
        "pageInfo": {
          "deviceInfo": {
            "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/142.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
            "browserName": "Chrome",
            "browserVersion": "142",
            "deviceType": "Tablet",
            "orientation": "landscape",
            "osName": "Macintosh",
            "osVersion": "10.15.7",
            "screenWidth": 1512,
            "screenHeight": 982
          },
          "url": "https://example.com/document",
          "path": "/document",
          "queryParams": "",
          "baseUrl": "https://example.com",
          "title": "Document Title",
          "screenWidth": 1512,
          "commentUrl": "https://example.com/document?scommentId=yourAnnotationId"
        },
        "customList": [],
        "subscribedUsers": {
          "061a01a98f80f415b1431236b62bb10b": {
            "user": {
              "userId": "user123"
            },
            "type": "auto"
          }
        },
        "unsubscribedUsers": {},
        "subscribedGroups": {},
        "from": {
          "userId": "user123",
          "organizationId": "d448b95936703db7d0923122172fb13c",
          "userSnippylyId": "1174701858709696",
          "photoUrl": "",
          "initial": "J",
          "clientUserName": "John Doe",
          "name": "John Doe",
          "clientOrganizationId": "yourOrganizationId",
          "plan": "trial",
          "email": "john.doe@example.com",
          "color": "#a259fe",
          "textColor": "#FFFFFF",
          "isAdmin": true
        },
        "lastUpdated": 1687344661000,
        "createdAt": 1687344600000,
        "annotationId": "yourAnnotationId",
        "metadata": {
          "apiKey": "yourApiKey",
          "documentId": "yourDocumentId",
          "organizationId": "yourOrganizationId"
        },
        "annotationNumber": 1,
        "annotationIndex": 2
      },
      null // null is returned only if you provided an annotationId that doesn't exist
    ],
    "nextPageToken": "pageToken"
  }
}

Success Response with multiple documentIds with groupByDocumentId

{
    "result": {
        "status": "success",
        "message": "Annotations fetched successfully.",
        "data": {
            "documentId1": [
                {
                    "annotationId": "annotationId1",
                    "comments": [
                      //comment objects
                    ],
                    "from": {
                      //from user object
                    },
                    "status": {
                        "color": "#625DF5",
                        "id": "OPEN",
                        "lightColor": "#E7E8FA",
                        "name": "Open",
                        "type": "default"
                    },
                    //other fields
                },
                {
                    "annotationId": "annotationId2",
                    "comments": [
                      //comment objects
                    ],
                    "from": {
                      //from user object
                    },
                    "status": {
                        "color": "#625DF5",
                        "id": "OPEN",
                        "lightColor": "#E7E8FA",
                        "name": "Open",
                        "type": "default"
                    },
                    //other fields
                },
            ],
            "documentId1": [
                {
                    "annotationId": "annotationId1",
                    "comments": [
                      //comment objects
                    ],
                    "from": {
                      //from user object
                    },
                    "status": {
                        "color": "#625DF5",
                        "id": "OPEN",
                        "lightColor": "#E7E8FA",
                        "name": "Open",
                        "type": "default"
                    },
                    //other fields
                },
                {
                    "annotationId": "annotationId2",
                    "comments": [
                      //comment objects
                    ],
                    "from": {
                      //from user object
                    },
                    "status": {
                        "color": "#625DF5",
                        "id": "OPEN",
                        "lightColor": "#E7E8FA",
                        "name": "Open",
                        "type": "default"
                    },
                    //other fields
                },
            ]
        },
        "nextPageToken": "Ds7NMZw0wWSdmfJFLNioTw=="
    }
}

Failure Response

{
  "error": {
    "message": "ERROR_MESSAGE",
    "status": "INVALID_ARGUMENT"
  }
}
{
  "result": {
    "status": "success",
    "message": "Annotations fetched successfully.",
    "data": [
      {
        "comments": [
          {
            "commentId": 123456,
            "type": "text",
            "to": [],
            "status": "updated",
            "attachments": [],
            "recorders": [],
            "reactionAnnotationIds": [
              "TPVIZ7VH6rgh4nKm2xjs",
              "REgRT9CY852tr12m3kto"
            ],
            "taggedUserContacts": [],
            "customList": [],
            "toOrganizationUserGroup": [],
            "commentText": "This is a sample comment text.",
            "commentHtml": "<p>This is a sample comment text.</p>",
            "lastUpdated": "2023-06-15T10:30:00Z",
            "createdAt": 1687344600000,
            "from": {
              "userId": "user123",
              "organizationId": "d448b95936703db7d0923122172fb13c",
              "userSnippylyId": "1174701858709696",
              "photoUrl": "",
              "initial": "J",
              "clientUserName": "John Doe",
              "name": "John Doe",
              "clientOrganizationId": "yourOrganizationId",
              "plan": "trial",
              "email": "john.doe@example.com",
              "color": "#a259fe",
              "textColor": "#FFFFFF",
              "isAdmin": true
            },
            "isDraft": false,
            "isCommentTextAvailable": true
          }
        ],
        "type": "comment",
        "status": {
          "id": "OPEN",
          "name": "Open",
          "color": "var(--velt-accent, #625DF5)",
          "lightColor": "var(--velt-accent-light, #E7E8FA)",
          "type": "default",
          "svg": "\n      <svg\n        width=\"16\"\n        height=\"16\"\n        viewBox=\"0 0 16 16\"\n        fill=\"none\"\n        xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"\n      >\n        <path\n          fill-rule=\"evenodd\"\n          clip-rule=\"evenodd\"\n          d=\"M8.00016 13.3333C10.9457 13.3333 13.3335 10.9455 13.3335 8.00001C13.3335 5.05449 10.9457 2.66668 8.00016 2.66668C5.05464 2.66668 2.66683 5.05449 2.66683 8.00001C2.66683 10.9455 5.05464 13.3333 8.00016 13.3333ZM8.00016 14.6667C11.6821 14.6667 14.6668 11.6819 14.6668 8.00001C14.6668 4.31811 11.6821 1.33334 8.00016 1.33334C4.31826 1.33334 1.3335 4.31811 1.3335 8.00001C1.3335 11.6819 4.31826 14.6667 8.00016 14.6667Z\"\n          fill=\"currentColor\"\n        />\n      </svg>\n      "
        },
        "pageInfo": {
          "deviceInfo": {
            "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/142.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
            "browserName": "Chrome",
            "browserVersion": "142",
            "deviceType": "Tablet",
            "orientation": "landscape",
            "osName": "Macintosh",
            "osVersion": "10.15.7",
            "screenWidth": 1512,
            "screenHeight": 982
          },
          "url": "https://example.com/document",
          "path": "/document",
          "queryParams": "",
          "baseUrl": "https://example.com",
          "title": "Document Title",
          "screenWidth": 1512,
          "commentUrl": "https://example.com/document?scommentId=yourAnnotationId"
        },
        "customList": [],
        "subscribedUsers": {
          "061a01a98f80f415b1431236b62bb10b": {
            "user": {
              "userId": "user123"
            },
            "type": "auto"
          }
        },
        "unsubscribedUsers": {},
        "subscribedGroups": {},
        "from": {
          "userId": "user123",
          "organizationId": "d448b95936703db7d0923122172fb13c",
          "userSnippylyId": "1174701858709696",
          "photoUrl": "",
          "initial": "J",
          "clientUserName": "John Doe",
          "name": "John Doe",
          "clientOrganizationId": "yourOrganizationId",
          "plan": "trial",
          "email": "john.doe@example.com",
          "color": "#a259fe",
          "textColor": "#FFFFFF",
          "isAdmin": true
        },
        "lastUpdated": 1687344661000,
        "createdAt": 1687344600000,
        "annotationId": "yourAnnotationId",
        "metadata": {
          "apiKey": "yourApiKey",
          "documentId": "yourDocumentId",
          "organizationId": "yourOrganizationId"
        },
        "annotationNumber": 1,
        "annotationIndex": 2
      },
      null // null is returned only if you provided an annotationId that doesn't exist
    ],
    "nextPageToken": "pageToken"
  }
}