FAQ

Every answer here came from a real support conversation. If your question is not on this page, this chat reaches a human, and so does Telegram at t.me/emma_comm.

Can I use the API commercially, for example in a Shopify store or a product I sell?

Yes. Commercial use is permitted, including inside products you charge for. The limits are the ordinary ones in the terms of service: no spam, no vote manipulation, and you are responsible for how the Reddit data you pull is used and stored.

Do you offer whitelabel or reseller pricing?

Not today. There is no whitelabel tier and no reseller programme. What we do offer is volume pricing on a single account that you run your own clients through. Tell support roughly how many calls a month you expect and you will get a quote.

What is the minimum top-up?

$10. API credits never expire and carry no monthly fee, no auto-renewal and no minimum monthly spend, so one $10 top-up can last as long as you need it to. Every new account also starts with $0.50 in free credits, no card required.

Do I need a Reddit account?

Not for reading. Every read endpoint (search, posts, comments, users, subreddits, listings) works with only your redditapis.com API key sent as a Bearer token. You never hold Reddit credentials for reads.

A Reddit account is involved only when an action has to happen as a specific person rather than as our infrastructure: posting a comment, voting, or sending a DM from your own account. Those go through POST /api/reddit/login.

How do I sign in to the dashboard?

Both email + password and Continue with Google work. Sign in with whichever you signed up with. If you signed up with Google and later changed your contact email in settings, keep signing in with Google; the contact email does not change your login method.

Can I get historical posts and comments from past years?

No Reddit API can, ours included. Reddit's own API does not expose a full historical archive, and the third-party service that used to fill that gap has shut down. What you can pull for older content: keyword search across posts and comments with sort and time filters, a subreddit's top posts for a window such as the past year, any specific post's full comment tree by id, and a user's full post and comment history.

Is there a post-creation endpoint?

Yes, POST /api/reddit/submit, and there is a caveat we would rather give you up front than let you discover.

The route is built, billed and unit-tested, and it serves text (self), link and poll posts. Image and video are not served and are refused by name rather than downgraded. See Create Post for the request shape.

What it has not had is an end-to-end run against a real Reddit account. We publish it anyway, with that said plainly, rather than leave a billed capability undocumented. POST /api/reddit/mod-mail is in the same state and is still held back; see capabilities not in the reference.

Poll, image and video posts are not served yet; those need a different upstream path.

The other write endpoints are comment posting (POST /api/reddit/comment), voting, profile updates and DMs. If you plan to build on submit, tell support first so we can verify it with you rather than have it fail in your name in a real subreddit.

What is the rate limit?

There is no fixed per-key request quota on the data endpoints. See rate limits for what a 429 actually means and how to handle it.