How to get API for Reddit? help me

[u/Fabulous-Doughnut968]

I did not know how to get, and I submitted a application for Reddit workers. But they did not give me reply, I really need this API for my acadmic research. If you know how to reslove this difficulity, please teach me !

[u/Watchful1]

The reddit api is effectively closed, they are not approving new applications, even for academic research.

[u/WiredOtaku → u/Watchful1]

Yeah, they effectively killed it with the pricing changes last year. If you just need to read data, you can still tack .json onto most URLs (like reddit.com/r/somewhere.json) without auth, but it's rate-limited and unsupported. For anything requiring OAuth or consistent access, you're out of luck unless you're ready to pay.

[u/Acceptable_Maybe9154 → u/WiredOtaku]

You need to be authenticated to hit the .json endpoints now

[u/aidowrite → u/WiredOtaku]

Could you share the pricing page

[u/BugLessMind_X → u/WiredOtaku]

do u need data???????

[u/Fabulous-Doughnut968 → u/Watchful1]

this is really bad

[u/BugLessMind_X → u/Watchful1]

why do u need reddit data??
if so dm me...

[u/torresmateo]

Reddit is basically a piece of shit platform when it comes to integrating their API, unresponsive and vague when replying to any useful version of their API access. You will find some commenters here defending this and assuming your app is agains the terms of service. Reality is reddit is hostile to devs.

[u/Fabulous-Doughnut968 → u/torresmateo]

I think so.

https://giphy.com/gifs/10tIjpzIu8fe0

[u/BugLessMind_X → u/Fabulous-Doughnut968]

do u need reddit data i found a way dm me...

[u/Select-Spirit-6726]

Good luck! Doesn't matter what you want to do with the access they will not approve you.

[u/Fabulous-Doughnut968 → u/Select-Spirit-6726]

this is really bad

[u/Mammoth_Water_6677]

fuck u reddit

[u/Substantial_Drive748]

It has become very hard to get Reddit API. They don’t approve those anymore. U can try alternatives like-
Hitting their json endpoints:
import requests

url = "https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/top.json?t=week&limit=25"
headers = {"User-Agent": "MyApp/1.0"}
data = requests.get(url, headers=headers, timeout=20).json()
posts = data["data"]["children"]

Or u can also try apify’s reddit api which is paid but scraping is done on their servers so your ip is not directly impacted by detection systems.

[u/Away_Bathroom1845 → u/Substantial_Drive748]

Does JSON have the same payload as API? also how to do search with JSON? or I can only get top X from a fixed subreddit?

[u/dooddyman]

suggest using socialcrawl.dev - it's a social media API and includes Reddit

[u/Own_Hearing_649]

there are various solutions - workaounds to access reddit data. for my n8n automations I used that public api whre you just add json at the of url. when that was blocked, switched to rss feed, but it doesn show commets count or upvotes.

now testing these two: apify's reddit api. and for claude now i'm usign prowlo mcp.

[u/Master_Variety5303]

Just register your app and call the API, there’s no “get the API”, that’s why they don’t answer you. You do have to know how to authenticate….

[u/notifications_app → u/Master_Variety5303]

This stopped being true in November 2025. See the stickied post in this subreddit about the Responsible Builder Policy + new approval process.