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Reddit Data API (official)

Reddit's own data API, where appending .json to a page URL returns its content without authentication and OAuth unlocks more. It serves live, current Reddit data, posts, comments, and profiles, but offers no deep historical search. Use it for present-day Reddit content and pair it with PullPush or Arctic Shift when you need the past.

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Why it’s useful & how it works

Reddit's official API returns live, current data: the posts, comments, and profiles that exist on Reddit right now. You can access most public content by simply appending .json to any Reddit URL. This makes it the right tool for checking a thread's current state or pulling a user's recent activity, but it holds no deep historical record and does not show content that has been removed or deleted. For historical and deleted content, pair it with PullPush or Arctic Shift.

What’s inside

Full coverage of Reddit's current public content, updated in real time. No historical archive; content that is removed or deleted disappears from the API.

API access

unauth https://www.reddit.com/ <path>.json ; authed https://oauth.reddit.com/

What we measured

Our own probes, not the archive’s own claims. Re-run periodically; every reading below is dated.

Reachability

Direct request: Blocked HTTP 403 387 ms
Through a datacenter proxy: Blocked HTTP 403 1 s

Did a real search return anything?

The request failed · median 1 s · down during the run

HTTP 403 on every attempt (proxy).

Benchmark coverage

Found 0 of 3 test items (0%) in the Social cluster. Median response 2.1 s.

By how well known the item is: 0/1 well-known, 0/1 mid, 0/1 obscure .

Reachability measured 2026-08-22. Search checked 2026-08-22. Benchmark run 2026-08-22.