Subreddit details API reference

GET /v1/reddit/subreddit/details

Name, description, icon, banner, and weekly visitors and contributions in extra. Reddit does not show the subscriber count, so member_count is empty.

Cost: 1 credit
Cache: Results are kept up to 30 days; send max_age_days to reuse them for free.
Timeout: A request still running after about 25 seconds answers 202 with a job to poll (Batch and jobs).

Parameters#

Name	Type	Required	Description
`subreddit`	string	one of	Subreddit name without r/. Also accepted as `sub`.
`url`	URL	one of	Subreddit URL (reddit.com/r/<name>). Accepted hosts: `reddit.com`, `redd.it`.

Send at least one of subreddit, url. If you send several, the first listed is used and the rest are ignored.

Every request also accepts:

trim: true for a smaller response without null fields and extra.
raw: true to also get the platform's original object as raw.
max_age_days: accept a cached result up to this many days old, for 0 credits (Caching).

Example request#

Set your key in the environment first (see Authentication).

1curl -G "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/reddit/subreddit/details" \2  -H "x-api-key: $SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY" \3  --data-urlencode "subreddit=python"

1import os2import requests34params = {5    "subreddit": "python",6}7res = requests.get(8    "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/reddit/subreddit/details",9    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY"]},10    params=params,11)12body = res.json()1314if body["ok"]:15    print(body["data"])16else:17    print(body["error"]["code"], body["error"]["message"])

1const url = new URL("https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/reddit/subreddit/details");2url.search = new URLSearchParams({3  "subreddit": "python"4}).toString();5const res = await fetch(url, {6  headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY! },7});8const body = await res.json();910if (body.ok) {11  console.log(body.data);12} else {13  console.error(body.error.code, body.error.message);14}

1{2  "nodes": [3    {4      "name": "SocialScrape Subreddit details",5      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest",6      "typeVersion": 4.2,7      "position": [8        0,9        010      ],11      "parameters": {12        "method": "GET",13        "url": "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/reddit/subreddit/details",14        "sendQuery": true,15        "queryParameters": {16          "parameters": [17            {18              "name": "subreddit",19              "value": "python"20            }21          ]22        },23        "sendHeaders": true,24        "headerParameters": {25          "parameters": [26            {27              "name": "x-api-key",28              "value": "={{ $env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY }}"29            }30          ]31        }32      }33    }34  ],35  "connections": {}36}

Example response#

This is a sample from a recorded response. Status 200.

200 OKSample response

1{2  "ok": true,3  "credits_charged": 1,4  "credits_remaining": 4999,5  "cached": false,6  "cached_at": null,7  "request_id": "req_342389bfae223a7b2b9b0226",8  "data": {9    "object": "community",10    "platform": "reddit",11    "id": "t5_2qh0y",12    "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/",13    "kind": "subreddit",14    "name": "Python",15    "title": "r/Python",16    "description": "The largest Python community for Reddit! Stay up to date with the latest news, packages, and meta information relating to the Python programming language.\n---\n\nIf you have questions or are new to Python use r/LearnPython",17    "avatar_url": "https://styles.redditmedia.com/t5_2qh0y/styles/communityIcon_lctik80p96tg1.png?width=64&frame=1&auto=webp&s=92baaacc951d52b5071629852df033d53cafa5ec",18    "banner_url": "https://styles.redditmedia.com/t5_2qh0y/styles/bannerBackgroundImage_cd73kiu1502d1.png?frame=1&auto=webp&s=cb043cb4ba040265a97554d8debbeb2ed419db16",19    "member_count": null,20    "online_count": null,21    "is_nsfw": null,22    "is_private": null,23    "verified": null,24    "created_at": null,25    "extra": {26      "weekly_active_users": 94358,27      "weekly_contributions": 57928    }29  },30  "cursor": null,31  "has_more": null32}

Response#

A Community object in data.

See Data models for every field. The envelope around data is described in Responses.

Errors#

Failures are free: credits_charged is 0. Branch on error.code, never on the message.

Code	HTTP	Retry	Meaning
`invalid_params`	400	no	A parameter is missing, unknown or has the wrong type.
`unsupported_url`	400	no	The URL is not one this endpoint accepts (wrong platform or form).
`not_found`	404	no	The platform says this profile, post or item does not exist.

Every request can also fail with the account and platform errors listed on the Errors page.

Example error:

1{2  "ok": false,3  "error": {4    "code": "not_found",5    "message": "The platform says this profile, post or item does not exist.",6    "retryable": false7  },8  "credits_charged": 0,9  "request_id": "req_d41227c9ebf90bba8f007bba"10}

Subreddit posts (GET /v1/reddit/subreddit/posts)
Search within a subreddit (GET /v1/reddit/subreddit/search)
Reddit post (GET /v1/reddit/post)
Reddit post comments (GET /v1/reddit/post/comments)
Reddit post comments (POST body) (POST /v1/reddit/post/comments)
Reddit video post transcript (GET /v1/reddit/post/transcript)
Reddit search (GET /v1/reddit/search)

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