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Reddit Data API

Official Reddit listings and search, 100 QPM free for non-commercial use

The Reddit Data API returns subreddit listings, posts, comments, and search results in JSON. As of the post-2023 policy, every request must go through OAuth 2.0; the free tier allows 100 queries per minute per OAuth client for non-commercial use. Commercial use requires a paid agreement.

Free tier

Free for non-commercial: 100 QPM (OAuth) / 10 QPM unauth; commercial is paid

Rate limits

100 queries/min averaged over 10 min (OAuth); 10/min without OAuth

Auth

OAuth

Base URL

https://oauth.reddit.com

What you'd build with it

  • Monitor a subreddit for posts mentioning your product or competitors
  • Pull top discussions on a topic as research input for an agent
  • Build a trend tracker over hot/new listings

Key endpoints

  • GET/r/{subreddit}/hotHot posts in a subreddit
  • GET/r/{subreddit}/comments/{id}A post and its comment tree
  • GET/searchSearch posts site-wide or within a subreddit
  • GET/r/{subreddit}/newNewest posts in a subreddit
Members

Members get the runnable recipe

Sign in free to copy the example request, see a sample response, and read the gotchas.

Tags

socialredditsearchcontent