Reddit API for Posts, Comments, and Communities

Capabilities

Search, threads, and accounts

For community monitors and research. Start with a topic or a subreddit, then open the thread.

Search

Give it a topic and get posts back, with the subreddit, the score, and the author. Narrow it to posts, comments, or communities when the query is too wide. See examples

A subreddit's listing

Hot, new, and top are the front page of a community. Pass the subreddit and you get the posts sitting there now. See examples

The thread

One post returns the title, the body, the score, and the comment tree. This is the call for reading an argument. See examples

The account

A username returns that person's posts and comments. Use it when you want their recent history. See examples

Comments in a community

The newest replies in a subreddit. Fits a monitor that cares about the reaction more than the original post. See examples

Communities

Popular and new subreddits show where conversation is gathering. A directory of communities, not a feed of posts. See examples

Shortened examples

Sample responses

Shortened examples of a search hit, a post, a comment, a profile, and a community. The figures are the ones in the sample. A live call also includes a meta object.

A search hit

{
    "title": "AAPL -don't buy (yet)",
    "subreddit": "wallstreetbets",
    "author": "Agreeable_Ice_4774",
    "score": 26,
    "link_flair_text": "Discussion"
}

A comment

{
    "id": "ncbfmda",
    "author": "AfraidAnalyst",
    "subreddit": "wallstreetbets",
    "link_title": "What Are Your Moves Tomorrow, September 04, 2025",
    "body": "Yeah, kinda dug a big hole and trying to escape",
    "score": 1
}

A community

{
    "name": "AskReddit",
    "title": "Ask Reddit...",
    "public_description": "r/AskReddit is the place to ask and answer thought-provoking questions.",
    "subscribers": 57603394,
    "subreddit_type": "public",
    "over18": false
}

A post

{
    "name": "t3_p0esdp",
    "title": "Do Hedge Funds beat the market?",
    "subreddit": "wallstreetbets",
    "score": 946,
    "upvote_ratio": 0.96,
    "link_flair_text": "DD"
}

A profile

{
    "name": "spez",
    "total_karma": 934614,
    "link_karma": 180843,
    "comment_karma": 753771,
    "verified": true,
    "is_gold": true
}

Why SteadyAPI

Read the conversation

Ask for a post, a comment, or a profile. You do not have to archive a whole subreddit to read one thread.

The post is the unit

Title, score, and comments belong to one post. You do not have to pull a whole subreddit to read one of them.

The object you named

A call returns the post, the comment, or the profile you asked for.

List first, then open

A subreddit listing is enough to choose a thread. The comment tree is a second call, on the post you kept.

The same account

Reddit uses the SteadyAPI key and the monthly allowance already on your plan.

Pricing

Same plans, whole catalog

Plans cover the whole SteadyAPI catalog, not only this API. The monthly allowance is on the table. For a larger volume, email [email protected].

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