Search Reddit with one API call

Read Reddit — search posts and comment threads — without building or maintaining a scraper. Native scrape over a residential proxy, with automatic failover. Same response shape as every other platform here, so one parser handles all of them. 1 credit a call.

The call

curl -H "x-api-key: $SS_KEY" \
  "https://api.socialsearchapi.com/v1/reddit/search?query=llm+agents"

This call costs 1 credit once you are on credits. A new account gets 5 free calls on any platform — verify an email and this command runs as-is.

What comes back

A real response from this endpoint, captured on 2026-07-25 and trimmed to one item:

{
  "success": true,
  "platform": "reddit",
  "served_by": "native",
  "data": {
    "total": 3,
    "items": [
      {
        "platform": "reddit",
        "type": "post",
        "title": "I tested every free LLM provider for AI agents. Here's the only 3 worth using.",
        "url": "https://old.reddit.com/r/better_claw/comments/1tjuuem/i_tested_every_free_llm_provider_for_ai_agents/",
        "author": "ShabzSparq",
        "created_at": "2026-05-21T19:17:20Z",
        "metrics": {
          "comments": 63,
          "score": 180
        },
        "extra": {
          "url_path": "/r/better_claw/comments/1tjuuem/i_tested_every_free_llm_provider_for_ai_agents/",
          "subreddit": "r/better_claw",
          "created_at_raw": "2026-05-21T19:17:20+00:00"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "credits_used": 1
}

Items from Reddit carry: author, created_at, extra, metrics, platform, title, type, url.

Why not just scrape it yourself

Reddit hard-blocks datacenter IPs on every surface — the JSON endpoints, old.reddit and the RSS feed all 403 from a cloud host. The official OAuth API works but its terms forbid redistributing the data, and the new UI is a JavaScript wall. Doing it yourself means renting residential IPs and keeping an HTML parser alive against a site that changes without notice.

• Cost here: 1 credit a call, $0.003 at list.
• Last verified 2026-07-25: 5,896ms for this call.
• Coverage: Public posts and comments only. No private subreddits, no user DMs, no vote data.

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