Is it possible to get comment count?

[iacchus]

Hello,

thanks for the awesome software! :)

Is it possible to get the comments counting for blog post?

[laymonage]

Could you elaborate on your use case? The comments count is already shown by giscus at the top of the widget.

[iacchus]

The home page at the blog. Like disqus, a link that shows 0 Comments or 1 Comment or [n] Comments

I am implementing it in the following blog of mine, I would like also to set the button to open the sidebar with "[number of] Comments." (sorry for being still in development.) Here in this blog post for example:

https://iacchus.github.io/md-test.html

[laymonage]

Hey @iacchus, this is now possible by retrieving IMetadataMessage in a message event listener and accessing giscusData.discussion.totalCommentCount. You can follow this guide for more details.

You need to enable the "Emit discussion metadata" feature in the configuration:

or add data-emit-metadata="1" to your existing <script> tag.

[iacchus]

Very nice. Is there a way of getting the comments of all the posts of the page? (for example, the blog's home page.)

[laymonage]

Unfortunately no, unless you embed giscus for every post that appears on the page.

Another hacky way to do it would be to embed giscus once, then change the discussion config inside a loop, while listening to the metadata. But this is very hacky and not sustainable. I think your best bet would be to call GitHub's API on your own.