# Getting Threaded Comments from Notes Programmatically

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/getting-threaded-comments-from-notes-programmatically/108434>\
**Category:** APIs & Integrations\
**Tags:** professional\
**Created:** [May 31, 2024, 10:27pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/getting-threaded-comments-from-notes-programmatically/108434 "2024-05-31T22:27:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![PHoang2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d26b3c/32.png) [@PHoang2](https://community.hubspot.com/u/PHoang2)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2024, 10:27pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/getting-threaded-comments-from-notes-programmatically/108434/1 "2024-05-31T22:27:07Z")

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Hey all,

I am trying to find a way to extract the threaded comments associated with each notes using the available APIs (see attached).

**What I’ve tried so far** :

- Finding deals and their associated notes is a straightforward process (use this endpoint):

- Extracting text from the notes is feasible (use hs\_note\_body properties), though in my use-case it returns an HTML output

- There doesn’t seem to be a straightforward path to extracting threaded comments from eaech notes, even after reviewing the documentation [here](https://developers.hubspot.com/docs/api/crm/notes)?

**Questions to Community** :

- Is it even possible to extract threaded comments from notes, assuming I already what the note ID is? (the tenative answer seems to be no [here](https://community.hubspot.com/t5/APIs-Integrations/Getting-comments-of-the-notes/m-p/848009), but would like confirmation if that’s the case)
- [Secondary Question] Is there a way to just return the text from the notes without the associated HTML formatting for hs\_body?  
 ![Threads (2).jpg](https://d2qpr2jzcazej7.cloudfront.net/original/3X/5/1/517b5e24f90271902148c00bbd199f893643bfbe.jpeg)

 ![HSNoteBody.JPG](https://d2qpr2jzcazej7.cloudfront.net/original/3X/3/6/36f6702308db606262ec921d9ac3b9bd41ac9672.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![JBeatty](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/jbeatty/32/52252_2.png) [@JBeatty](https://community.hubspot.com/u/JBeatty)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2024, 5:27pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/getting-threaded-comments-from-notes-programmatically/108434/2 "2024-06-03T17:27:03Z")

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Hi @PHoang2,

Currenlty there is no way to get [comments via API](https://community.hubspot.com/t5/HubSpot-Ideas/Retrieve-comment-details-via-Reports-function-or-API/idi-p/400306#M72120). If you want to get the note body without the HTML you can use the [V1 engagement API](https://legacydocs.hubspot.com/docs/methods/engagements/get_engagement) which provides the “bodyPreview” property which is a view of the note body without the HTML markup. Alternatively depending on what programming languages you are using there are many libraries that can [extract raw text from html strings](https://www.npmjs.com/package/html-to-text).

Best,