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Try the Reddit Search API

Test Crawlora's Reddit Search API with realistic prefilled parameters. Generate a cURL request, inspect the expected structured JSON response, and open the full docs or pricing page when you are ready to integrate this public web data extraction endpoint into your application.

Endpoint facts

Method: GET
API path: /reddit/search
Platform: Reddit
Auth: apiKey
Credits: 1 credit/request
Required params: q
Common optional params: subreddit, sort, time, limit, after

Reddit Search API documentation Reddit platform page Crawlora API pricing Try Reddit Comments API Try Reddit Post API Try Reddit Subreddit Posts API

Prefilled cURL

curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/reddit/search?q=<q>&sort=relevance&time=hour" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Request parameters visible to crawlers

Parameter	Type	Required	Prefilled value	Description
q	string	Yes		Search keywords
subreddit	string	No		Restrict search to a subreddit name, without r/
sort	string	No	relevance	Sort: relevance, hot, new, top, or comments
time	string	No	hour	Time window for top/comments sorts: hour, day, week, month, year, or all
limit	integer	No		Maximum posts, defaults to 25 and clamps to 100
after	string	No		Reddit pagination token

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "query": "gpt",
    "subreddit": "OpenAI",
    "sort": "relevance",
    "posts": [
      {
        "id": "1abcxyz",
        "name": "t3_1abcxyz",
        "subreddit": "OpenAI",
        "title": "OpenAI discussion thread",
        "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1abcxyz/openai_discussion_thread/",
        "author": {
          "name": "sample_user",
          "profile_url": "https://www.reddit.com/user/sample_user/"
        },
        "created": "2024-04-19T00:00:00Z",
        "selftext": "Discussion body",
        "source_feed_url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/search?q=gpt&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance"
      }
    ],
    "pagination": {
      "limit": 25,
      "after": "t3_1abcxyz"
    },
    "source": {
      "type": "feed",
      "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/search?q=gpt&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance"
    }
  }
}

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Endpoint

GETapiKey1 credit/requestreddit.searchResponseDocReddit

GET /reddit/search

Search Reddit posts

Searches public Reddit content and returns normalized public post entries.

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Required query parameters

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Search keywords

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Sample responseGET

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{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "query": "gpt",
    "subreddit": "OpenAI",
    "sort": "relevance",
    "posts": [
      {
        "id": "1abcxyz",
        "name": "t3_1abcxyz",
        "subreddit": "OpenAI",
        "title": "OpenAI discussion thread",
        "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1abcxyz/openai_discussion_thread/",
        "author": {
          "name": "sample_user",
          "profile_url": "https://www.reddit.com/user/sample_user/"
        },
        "created": "2024-04-19T00:00:00Z",
        "selftext": "Discussion body",
        "source_feed_url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/search?q=gpt&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance"
      }
    ],
    "pagination": {
      "limit": 25,
      "after": "t3_1abcxyz"
    },
    "source": {
      "type": "feed",
      "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/search?q=gpt&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance"
    }
  }
}

Endpoint details

Searches public Reddit content and returns normalized public post entries.

Method: GET
Path: /reddit/search
Authentication: apiKey
Credit cost: 1 credit/request
Platform: Reddit
Parameters: 7 documented fields

Request parameters

q:querysubreddit:querysort:querytime:querylimit:queryafter:queryx-api-key:header

Response schema fields

codedatadata.paginationdata.pagination.afterdata.pagination.limitdata.postsdata.posts[].authordata.posts[].author.namedata.posts[].author.profile_urldata.posts[].comment_countdata.posts[].createddata.posts[].created_utc

Sample response summary

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "query": "gpt",
    "subreddit": "OpenAI",
    "sort": "relevance",
    "posts": [
      {
        "id": "1abcxyz",
        "name": "t3_1abcxyz",
        "subreddit": "OpenAI",
        "title": "OpenAI discussion thread",
        "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1abcxyz/openai_discussion_thread/",
        "author": {
          "name": "sample_user",
          "profile_url": "https://www.reddit.com/user/sample_user/"
        },
        "created": "2024-04-19T00:00:00Z",
        "selftext": "Discussion body",
        "source_feed_url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/search?q=gpt&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance"
      }
    ],
    "pagination": {
      "limit": 25,
      "after": "t3_1abcxyz"
    },
    "source": {
      "type": "feed",
      "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/search?q=gpt&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance"
    }
  }
}

cURL example

curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/reddit/search?q=<q>" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

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Endpoint facts

Method: GET
API path: /reddit/search
Platform: Reddit
Auth: apiKey
Credits: 1 credit/request
Required params: q
Common optional params: subreddit, sort, time, limit, after

Reddit Search API documentation Reddit platform page Crawlora API pricing Try Reddit Comments API Try Reddit Post API Try Reddit Subreddit Posts API

Prefilled cURL

curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/reddit/search?q=<q>&sort=relevance&time=hour" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Request parameters visible to crawlers

Parameter	Type	Required	Prefilled value	Description
q	string	Yes		Search keywords
subreddit	string	No		Restrict search to a subreddit name, without r/
sort	string	No	relevance	Sort: relevance, hot, new, top, or comments
time	string	No	hour	Time window for top/comments sorts: hour, day, week, month, year, or all
limit	integer	No		Maximum posts, defaults to 25 and clamps to 100
after	string	No		Reddit pagination token

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "query": "gpt",
    "subreddit": "OpenAI",
    "sort": "relevance",
    "posts": [
      {
        "id": "1abcxyz",
        "name": "t3_1abcxyz",
        "subreddit": "OpenAI",
        "title": "OpenAI discussion thread",
        "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1abcxyz/openai_discussion_thread/",
        "author": {
          "name": "sample_user",
          "profile_url": "https://www.reddit.com/user/sample_user/"
        },
        "created": "2024-04-19T00:00:00Z",
        "selftext": "Discussion body",
        "source_feed_url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/search?q=gpt&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance"
      }
    ],
    "pagination": {
      "limit": 25,
      "after": "t3_1abcxyz"
    },
    "source": {
      "type": "feed",
      "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/search?q=gpt&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance"
    }
  }
}

{ "code": 200, "msg": "OK", "data": { "query": "gpt", "subreddit": "OpenAI", "sort": "relevance", "posts": [ { "id": "1abcxyz", "name": "t3_1abcxyz", "subreddit": "OpenAI", "title": "OpenAI discussion thread", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1abcxyz/openai_discussion_thread/", "author": { "name": "sample_user", "profile_url": "https://www.reddit.com/user/sample_user/" }, "created": "2024-04-19T00:00:00Z", "selftext": "Discussion body", "source_feed_url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/search?q=gpt&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance" } ], "pagination": { "limit": 25, "after": "t3_1abcxyz" }, "source": { "type": "feed", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/search?q=gpt&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance" } } }

Endpoint details

Searches public Reddit content and returns normalized public post entries.

Method: GET
Path: /reddit/search
Authentication: apiKey
Credit cost: 1 credit/request
Platform: Reddit
Parameters: 7 documented fields

Request parameters

q:querysubreddit:querysort:querytime:querylimit:queryafter:queryx-api-key:header

Response schema fields

Sample response summary

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "query": "gpt",
    "subreddit": "OpenAI",
    "sort": "relevance",
    "posts": [
      {
        "id": "1abcxyz",
        "name": "t3_1abcxyz",
        "subreddit": "OpenAI",
        "title": "OpenAI discussion thread",
        "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1abcxyz/openai_discussion_thread/",
        "author": {
          "name": "sample_user",
          "profile_url": "https://www.reddit.com/user/sample_user/"
        },
        "created": "2024-04-19T00:00:00Z",
        "selftext": "Discussion body",
        "source_feed_url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/search?q=gpt&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance"
      }
    ],
    "pagination": {
      "limit": 25,
      "after": "t3_1abcxyz"
    },
    "source": {
      "type": "feed",
      "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/search?q=gpt&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance"
    }
  }
}

cURL example

curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/reddit/search?q=<q>" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

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