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Search Subreddits and Communities by Topic

Search subreddits by name or topic — the Communities tab on reddit.com. Verified to match Reddit's UI rank order for SFW and NSFW queries, with pagination.

GET/api/reddit/search/communities$0.002 / call

Search subreddits. Mirrors the "Communities" tab on reddit.com search with the same rank order.

Query Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`q`	string	Yes	Search query
`nsfw`	boolean	No	`true` to include NSFW communities
`limit`	number	No	Number of communities to return, `1`-`100` (default `25`)
`after`	string	No	Pagination cursor

Example

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  "https://api.redditapis.com/api/reddit/search/communities?q=twitter"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.redditapis.com/api/reddit/search/communities?q=twitter",
  { headers: { Authorization: "Bearer TOKEN" } }
);

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.redditapis.com/api/reddit/search/communities",
    params={"q": "twitter"},
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer TOKEN"},
)

User Comments

Fetch a Reddit user's recent comments by username — sorted by new, top, or controversial. Includes comment body, score, subreddit, and cursor pagination.

LoginNew

Log in to a Reddit account with username and password (plus optional 2FA TOTP). Returns the full set of session cookies for /comment, /vote, and /dm.

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Query Parameters Example