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Reddit API
Posts, comments, search and community stats from any public subreddit.
Overview
Read Reddit as anyone sees it on reddit.com: subreddit feeds, full comment threads, search across Reddit or within one subreddit, and community stats. Useful for audience research, brand and competitor monitoring, and finding the questions your customers ask.
Field names follow Reddit's own API, so code written for Reddit's JSON keeps working. Fields that reddit.com's pages don't show are left out rather than faked.
Source: reddit.com.
Endpoints
Call it
Each endpoint is a web address. Request it with GET, put your API key in the x-api-key header, and you get JSON back. For example, Subreddit posts:
curl "https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/reddit/subreddit?subreddit=marketing" \-H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"Use it in Claude
Connect LurkAPI to Claude and ask in plain English. Each endpoint is a tool Claude can call:
| Tool | Endpoint |
|---|---|
reddit_subreddit_posts | Subreddit posts |
reddit_subreddit_details | Subreddit details |
reddit_subreddit_search | Subreddit search |
reddit_search | Search Reddit |
reddit_post_comments | Post comments |
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