Reddit API
Reddit

Get User Profile

Fetch a Reddit user's full profile by username — link karma, comment karma, account creation date, verification status, and subreddit metadata.

GET/api/reddit/user/:name

User profile with karma, account age, and verification status.

Path Parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
namestringYesReddit username (no u/ prefix)

Response (200)

{
  "name": "spez",
  "total_karma": 937404,
  "link_karma": 182287,
  "comment_karma": 755117,
  "created": "2005-06-06T04:00:00.000Z",
  "is_gold": true,
  "is_mod": true,
  "verified": true,
  "subreddit": { }
}

Example

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  "https://api.redditapis.com/api/reddit/user/spez"
const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.redditapis.com/api/reddit/user/spez",
  { headers: { Authorization: "Bearer TOKEN" } }
);
import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.redditapis.com/api/reddit/user/spez",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer TOKEN"},
)

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