Reddit reddit User API

Scrape a Reddit user's profile, posts and comments

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.stophy.dev/v1/reddit/user \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "username": "spez"
}
'

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({username: 'spez'})
};

fetch('https://api.stophy.dev/v1/reddit/user', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

import requests

url = "https://api.stophy.dev/v1/reddit/user"

payload = { "username": "spez" }
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "results": [
      {
        "type": "post",
        "postUrl": "<string>",
        "score": 0,
        "comments": 0,
        "isNsfw": true,
        "isVideo": true,
        "isPinned": true,
        "postId": "<string>",
        "title": "<string>",
        "text": "<string>",
        "authorId": "<string>",
        "authorUsername": "<string>",
        "authorUrl": "<string>",
        "subreddit": "<string>",
        "upvotePercent": 50,
        "publishedAt": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
        "flair": "<string>",
        "linkUrl": "<string>",
        "thumbnailUrl": "<string>",
        "imageUrls": [
          "<string>"
        ],
        "videoUrl": "<string>",
        "videoHlsUrl": "<string>",
        "videoDurationSeconds": 123,
        "pollOptions": [
          {
            "text": "<string>",
            "votes": 0
          }
        ],
        "pollTotalVotes": 0,
        "pollEndsAt": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
        "repostOfUrl": "<string>"
      }
    ],
    "userId": "<string>",
    "username": "<string>",
    "userUrl": "<string>",
    "postKarma": 0,
    "commentKarma": 0,
    "createdAt": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
    "avatarUrl": "<string>",
    "isVerified": true,
    "cursor": "<string>"
  },
  "creditsUsed": 123,
  "requestId": "<string>"
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "cliSessionCompleted",
    "message": "<string>",
    "retryable": true,
    "requestId": "<string>",
    "retryAfterSeconds": 123,
    "requiredCredits": 123,
    "availableCredits": 123,
    "billingUrl": "https://stophy.dev/billing"
  }
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "cliSessionCompleted",
    "message": "<string>",
    "retryable": true,
    "requestId": "<string>",
    "retryAfterSeconds": 123,
    "requiredCredits": 123,
    "availableCredits": 123,
    "billingUrl": "https://stophy.dev/billing"
  }
}

POST

user

Scrape a Reddit user's profile, posts and comments

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.stophy.dev/v1/reddit/user \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "username": "spez"
}
'

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({username: 'spez'})
};

fetch('https://api.stophy.dev/v1/reddit/user', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

import requests

url = "https://api.stophy.dev/v1/reddit/user"

payload = { "username": "spez" }
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "results": [
      {
        "type": "post",
        "postUrl": "<string>",
        "score": 0,
        "comments": 0,
        "isNsfw": true,
        "isVideo": true,
        "isPinned": true,
        "postId": "<string>",
        "title": "<string>",
        "text": "<string>",
        "authorId": "<string>",
        "authorUsername": "<string>",
        "authorUrl": "<string>",
        "subreddit": "<string>",
        "upvotePercent": 50,
        "publishedAt": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
        "flair": "<string>",
        "linkUrl": "<string>",
        "thumbnailUrl": "<string>",
        "imageUrls": [
          "<string>"
        ],
        "videoUrl": "<string>",
        "videoHlsUrl": "<string>",
        "videoDurationSeconds": 123,
        "pollOptions": [
          {
            "text": "<string>",
            "votes": 0
          }
        ],
        "pollTotalVotes": 0,
        "pollEndsAt": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
        "repostOfUrl": "<string>"
      }
    ],
    "userId": "<string>",
    "username": "<string>",
    "userUrl": "<string>",
    "postKarma": 0,
    "commentKarma": 0,
    "createdAt": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
    "avatarUrl": "<string>",
    "isVerified": true,
    "cursor": "<string>"
  },
  "creditsUsed": 123,
  "requestId": "<string>"
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "cliSessionCompleted",
    "message": "<string>",
    "retryable": true,
    "requestId": "<string>",
    "retryAfterSeconds": 123,
    "requiredCredits": 123,
    "availableCredits": 123,
    "billingUrl": "https://stophy.dev/billing"
  }
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "cliSessionCompleted",
    "message": "<string>",
    "retryable": true,
    "requestId": "<string>",
    "retryAfterSeconds": 123,
    "requiredCredits": 123,
    "availableCredits": 123,
    "billingUrl": "https://stophy.dev/billing"
  }
}

Scrape a Reddit user’s profile, posts and comments. The user is identified by its URL or username.

Request

Exactly one of userUrl or username is required. A request that sets both, or none, fails with invalidRequest.

import { Stophy } from "stophy";

const stophy = new Stophy({ apiKey: process.env.STOPHY_API_KEY });
const result = await stophy.reddit.user({ username: "spez" });
console.log(result.data.results);

from stophy import Stophy

stophy = Stophy()  # reads STOPHY_API_KEY
result = stophy.reddit.user(username="spez")
print(result["data"]["results"])

curl -X POST https://api.stophy.dev/v1/reddit/user \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STOPHY_API_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"username":"spez"}'

stophy reddit user --username spez

Response

If successful, the response body contains the standard envelope. data contains the user’s profile and karma, and results lists a page of their posts and comments. The following example is a real response, truncated: each list shows one item and long strings are cut.

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "userId": "1w72",
    "username": "spez",
    "userUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/user/spez/",
    "postKarma": 184509,
    "commentKarma": 756493,
    "createdAt": "2005-06-06T04:00:00.000Z",
    "avatarUrl": "https://styles.redditmedia.com/t5_3k30p/styles/profileIcon_uj015iwx9s7g1.png?width=256&height=256&crop=256:256,smart&s=…",
    "isVerified": true,
    "results": [
      {
        "type": "comment",
        "commentId": "p1wosm9",
        "commentUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/r/u_spez/comments/1vgbkge/modernizing_reddits_infrastructure_with_you/p1wosm9/",
        "text": "That was the thinking. Otherwise it would be easier to just replicate the UI. ",
        "score": 13,
        "publishedAt": "2026-08-05T18:31:50.000Z",
        "subreddit": "u_spez",
        "postId": "1vgbkge",
        "postTitle": "Modernizing Reddit’s infrastructure with you"
      },
      {
        "type": "post",
        "postId": "1vgbkge",
        "postUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/r/u_spez/comments/1vgbkge/modernizing_reddits_infrastructure_with_you/",
        "title": "Modernizing Reddit’s infrastructure with you",
        "text": "Hi everyone,\n\nLast May, I shared how we were building Reddit for its [next…",
        "authorId": "1w72",
        "authorUsername": "spez",
        "authorUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/user/spez/",
        "subreddit": "u_spez",
        "score": 350,
        "upvotePercent": 84,
        "comments": 472,
        "publishedAt": "2026-08-05T16:03:56.000Z",
        "thumbnailUrl": "https://external-preview.redd.it/-_NM9QKmwnaF7Ti3sXwY6oJD9PVQrQGXBx1288oLFXw.png?auto=webp&s=58d39b335111d200e60a1e6fa3…",
        "isNsfw": false,
        "isVideo": false,
        "isPinned": false
      }
    ],
    "cursor": "t1_opmb76u"
  },
  "creditsUsed": 1,
  "requestId": "2fe9dbad-fc48-4890-9751-0b24b596035b"
}

Field	Type	Description
`cursor`	string	The pagination token. Pass it as `cursor` to retrieve the next page. Omitted on the last page.
`type`	string	The kind of item: `post` or `comment`.
`publishedAt`	string (ISO 8601)	The publication time, in UTC.
`score`	integer	Upvotes minus downvotes.
`upvotePercent`	number	The share of votes that are upvotes, as a percentage.
`createdAt`	string (ISO 8601)	The creation time, in UTC.

For every field, see the response schema on this page.

Optional parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
`tab`	string	Specifies which part of the profile to read. Acceptable values are `overview`, `posts` and `comments`. If unset, defaults to `overview`.
`sort`	string	Specifies the order of the results. Acceptable values are `newest`, `hot`, `top` and `controversial`. If unset, defaults to `newest`.
`time`	string	Restricts results to posts from this period. Leave it out for Reddit’s default. Acceptable values are `pastHour`, `today`, `pastWeek`, `pastMonth`, `pastYear` and `allTime`.
`cursor`	string	The pagination token from the previous response.

Billing

Each successful request consumes 1 credit, regardless of the number of items returned. Requests that fail, or that return no items, are not billed.

Pagination

Results are paginated. To retrieve the next page, pass the value of data.cursor as cursor in a subsequent request. A response that omits cursor is the last page.

Reddit reddit Post: Accepts postUrl. Scrape a Reddit post and its comments.
Reddit reddit Subreddit: Accepts subreddit. Scrape a subreddit and its posts.
Reddit reddit Other Discussions: Accepts postUrl. Scrape where else a link was shared on Reddit.

Authorizations

Authorization

string

header

required

Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.

Query Parameters

maxTextLength

integer

Cut every text value in the response to this many characters. A value that was cut ends with …, and a page whose text was cut has isTruncated set to true. A screenshot is never cut. Leave it out to get the full text.

Required range: x >= 1

Body

application/json

userUrl

string

Link to the Reddit user, like https://www.reddit.com/user/spez. Send this or username.

username

string

Reddit user username, like spez. Send this or userUrl.

tab

enum<string>

default:overview

Available options:

overview,

posts,

comments

sort

enum<string>

default:newest

Reddit's own sort.

Available options:

newest,

hot,

top,

controversial

time

enum<string>

Reddit's own time filter. Leave out for Reddit's default.

Available options:

pastHour,

today,

pastWeek,

pastMonth,

pastYear,

allTime

cursor

string

The cursor from the previous response. Send it as is.

Minimum string length: 1

Response

The data, and the credits this call used.

success

any

required

data

object

required

Show child attributes

creditsUsed

integer

required

requestId

string

required

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Shopping

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Real estate

Ads

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