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Reddit API

Posts, comments, search and community stats from any public subreddit.

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Overview

Read Reddit the way people see it on reddit.com: subreddit feeds, full comment threads, site-wide and in-subreddit search, 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 reddit.com's pages don't carry are left out rather than faked.

Source: reddit.com.

Try it live

Pick an endpoint and run it: real data, no signup, 5 free requests a day.

Endpoint

GET/v1/reddit/subreddit

1 credit per request
Examples
subreddit

Subreddit name without r/, e.g. marketing.

More options (4)
sort

Feed order, as on reddit.com.

timeframe

Time window for sort=top: hour, day, week, month, year or all.

after

The after from the previous response, to get the next page.

trim

true omits selftext_html for a smaller response.

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Results come back as a table you can download as CSV, or as the raw JSON.

Endpoints

Subreddit postsGET /v1/reddit/subreddit · 1 creditA subreddit's feed (hot, new, top, rising or best), with titles, text, scores and comment counts.
Subreddit detailsGET /v1/reddit/subreddit/details · 1 creditA community's size, activity, description, rules and images.
Subreddit searchGET /v1/reddit/subreddit/search · 1 creditSearch one subreddit's posts by keyword, returned as compact result cards.
Search RedditGET /v1/reddit/search · 1 creditSearch all of Reddit for posts matching a keyword.
Post commentsGET /v1/reddit/post/comments · 1 creditA Reddit post and its comment thread, with nested replies.

Call it

Every endpoint is a GET with your key in the x-api-key header. For example, Subreddit posts:

curl
curl "https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/reddit/subreddit?subreddit=marketing" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Use it in Claude

Once LurkAPI is connected to Claude, each endpoint is a tool Claude can call:

ToolWhat it does
reddit_subreddit_postsSubreddit posts: A subreddit's feed (hot, new, top, rising or best), with titles, text, scores and comment counts.
reddit_subreddit_detailsSubreddit details: A community's size, activity, description, rules and images.
reddit_subreddit_searchSubreddit search: Search one subreddit's posts by keyword, returned as compact result cards.
reddit_searchSearch Reddit: Search all of Reddit for posts matching a keyword.
reddit_post_commentsPost comments: A Reddit post and its comment thread, with nested replies.