# reddit-api

This skill guides an agent through fetching Reddit posts, feeds, comments, and user profiles via fetcher.sh. Use it for keyword searches or to gather material for monitoring and analysis.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 3600 installs · ★ 2
- Author: fetcher-sh
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/reddit-api/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-05
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/reddit-api

## What it does

The skill describes HTTP GET requests to fetcher.sh for searching posts across subreddits, finding subreddits and users, and retrieving feeds or a post with its comment tree. An agent can also fetch a user profile, posts, and comments. The `sort` and `cursor` parameters control ordering and pagination.

Requests can be paid for with prepaid credits and a Bearer key, or through x402 in USDC. Reddit OAuth app registration is not required. Each call costs `$0.002/call`; an exhausted credit balance returns `402`, and upstream failures are not refunded because payment settles before data is delivered. That payment timing matters for paid data pipelines.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills --skill reddit-api -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/reddit-api/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/reddit-api/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills --skill reddit-api -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/reddit-api/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills --skill reddit-api -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/reddit-api/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills reddit-api
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/reddit-api/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills --skill reddit-api -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills --path skills/reddit-api
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/reddit-api/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills --skill reddit-api -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/reddit-api/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- search Reddit posts across subreddits by keyword
- rank search results by popularity or comment count
- retrieve a subreddit’s post feed
- fetch a post’s comment tree and replies to a comment
- collect a user’s posts and comments

## Example prompts
- Find Reddit posts about local models and sort them by comment count.
- Fetch the top posts from `MachineLearning`.
- Get the profile, posts, and comments for `spez`.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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BEGIN THIRD-PARTY FILE 3cb2ecd45547a1be
````text
---
name: reddit-api
description: >-
  A Reddit API alternative on fetcher.sh — pay-per-call in USDC via x402, or
  prepaid credits with a Bearer key, no OAuth app registration. Use when the
  user wants to search Reddit posts across every subreddit by keyword and
  sort by top, hot, new, or most-discussed, search subreddits or users by
  keyword, fetch a subreddit's info or its hot/new/top post feed, fetch a
  single post with its comment tree and comment replies, pull the sitewide
  best/hot/new/top feeds, or fetch a user's profile, posts, and comments.
  Also covers Reddit sentiment analysis input, subreddit monitoring, keyword
  tracking, and Reddit data pipelines without Reddit's own API app
  registration or rate-limit tiers.
keywords:
  - reddit
  - reddit-api
  - reddit-api-alternative
  - subreddit
  - social-listening
  - x402
  - ai-agent
---

# Reddit API

Reddit data on demand: cross-subreddit post search, subreddit and user search,
subreddit info and feeds, single posts with full comment trees, sitewide
best/hot/new/top feeds, and user profiles/posts/comments — one plain HTTP GET
per call, paid as you go. No OAuth app registration, no client ID/secret pair,
no Reddit API rate-limit tier.

Base URL: `https://reddit.fetcher.sh`

## Authentication

Two ways to pay, same data — full mechanics in the [`fetcher`
skill](../fetcher/SKILL.md):

```bash
# 1. Prepaid credits (recommended — get a key at https://fetcher.sh/topup
#    or via POST /api/credits/topup, see the fetcher skill)
export FETCHER_API_KEY="bby_live_xxxxxxxxxxxx"
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
  "https://reddit.fetcher.sh/api/search/post?keyword=hello"

# 2. x402 pay-per-call — omit the header; a GET with no payment returns 402
#    with machine-readable payment requirements (USDC on Base, Polygon,
#    Arbitrum, Monad, or Solana). @x402/fetch signs and retries automatically.
```

Every response is `{ "status": number, "message": string, "data": ... }`; the
HTTP status mirrors `status`.

## Endpoints (15 — all GET, $0.002/call)

| Endpoint | What it returns |
| --- | --- |
| `/api/search/post` | Posts across every subreddit matching a keyword |
| `/api/search/subreddit` | Subreddits matching a keyword |
| `/api/search/user` | Users matching a keyword |
| `/api/subreddit/{name}` | A subreddit's info |
| `/api/subreddit/{name}/posts` | A subreddit's post feed |
| `/api/post/{id}` | A single post |
| `/api/post/{id}/comments` | A post's comment tree |
| `/api/post/{id}/comments/{commentId}/replies` | Replies to a comment |
| `/api/posts/hot` | Sitewide hot feed |
| `/api/posts/new` | Sitewide new feed |
| `/api/posts/top` | Sitewide top feed |
| `/api/posts/best` | Sitewide best feed |
| `/api/user/{username}` | A user's profile |
| `/api/user/{username}/posts` | A user's posts |
| `/api/user/{username}/comments` | A user's comments |

`{id}` / `{name}` / `{username}` are path parameters. Optional `sort` /
`cursor` reorder and paginate; `keyword` (search) is required where it
appears.

## Scenarios

**Top posts about a topic, across every subreddit:**

```bash
````
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