How to Get All Official Comments

Official Comments are used by venues for discussion of papers, including author rebuttals. To get all Official Comments, use the following steps.

These instructions are for API2 venues (most venues since 2024).

1. Install and Instantiate the Python Client

import openreview
from openreview.api import OpenReviewClient

client = OpenReviewClient(
    baseurl='https://api2.openreview.net',
    username=YOUR_USERNAME,
    password=YOUR_PASSWORD
)

2. Get all submissions with replies

Next, get all submissions for the venues with replies:

venue_id =VENUE_ID #ID of the venue you would like to get submissions for

#get the name for the submission invitation
venue_group = client.get_group(venue_id)
submission_name = venue_group.content['submission_name']['value']
invitation_name = f'{venue_id}/-/{submission_name}' #Put the name of the invitation here

#get all submissions
submissions = client.get_all_notes(
invitation= invitation_name,details = 'replies')

See here for information on how to find a venue ID

3. Get all official comments from replies

The following code will return a list with all official comments for all submissions.

official_comments=[]
for s in submissions:
    official_comments.extend([r for r in submission.details['replies'] if r['invitations'][0].endswith('Official_Comment')])

How to filter comments

Once you have the Official Comments, you can filter them by certain properties to select a specific type of comments. For example, to get all comments made by the submission authors, you can filter by comments signed by the submission authors:

author_comments = [
        r for r in official_comments if any('Authors' in mem for mem in r['signatures'])
    ]

You can replace 'Authors' with another group as well, such as '/Reviewer_' or a profile id.

Some fields that may be helpful to filter comments by:

• signatures: The signature of the profile or group (such as Submission[Number]/Authors) that posted the Note

• readers: The profile(s) or group(s) that can read the note

• forum: The unique ID of the submission that the comment is posted to

• replyto: The unique ID of the note that the comment is a reply to (e.g. if this comment is a response to a review on the forum page, then the replyto id will be that of the review)