Search Reddit with one call.
Read Reddit, search posts and comment threads, without building or maintaining a scraper. Same response shape as every other platform here, so one parser handles all of them.
50 free credits on signup, no card
failed calls: 0 credits
1The call
curl -H "x-api-key: $SS_KEY" \ "https://api.socialsearchapi.com/v1/reddit/search?query=cloudflare+workers"
This call costs 2 credits. A new account starts with 50 free credits on any platform: create a key in the dashboard and this command runs as-is.
2Why not build this yourself
Reddit restricts automated reading from cloud hosts on every surface - the JSON endpoints, old.reddit and the RSS feed. The official OAuth API works but its terms forbid redistributing the data, and the new UI is a JavaScript wall. Doing it yourself means specialised infrastructure and an HTML parser kept alive against a site that changes without notice.
3What comes backcaptured 2026-09-08
{
"success": true,
"platform": "reddit",
"data": {
"total": 3,
"items": [
{
"id": "1svlt79",
"platform": "reddit",
"type": "post",
"title": "Cloudflare Workers AI - worth it?",
"text": "Hey,I’m hitting a wall with the new Codex limits on GPT Business, they burn through way too fast lately and it’s star...",
"url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/CloudFlare/comments/1svlt79/cloudflare_workers_ai_worth_it/",
"created_at": "2026-04-25T19:42:34Z",
"metrics": {
"score": 4,
"comments": 25
},
"extra": {
"subreddit": "r/CloudFlare"
}
}
]
},
"credits_used": 2
}Items from Reddit carry: author, created_at, extra, id, metrics, platform, text, title, type, url.
4Characteristics
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| /v1/reddit/comments/search | 1 credit a call |
| /v1/reddit/post | 2 credits a call |
| /v1/reddit/post/comments | 2 credits a call |
| /v1/reddit/post/transcript | 5 credits a call |
| /v1/reddit/profile | 1 credit a call |
| /v1/reddit/profile/comments | 1 credit a call |
| /v1/reddit/profile/posts | 1 credit a call |
| /v1/reddit/search | 2 credits a call |
| /v1/reddit/subreddit | 2 credits a call |
| /v1/reddit/subreddit/posts | 2 credits a call |
| /v1/reddit/subreddit/search | 2 credits a call |
| /v1/reddit/subreddits | 1 credit a call |
| Typical latency | 10,116 ms, measured 2026-09-08 |
| Coverage | Public posts and comments only. No private subreddits, no user DMs, no vote data. |
| Data | Publicly available content only, nothing behind a login. See the public data notice. |
| Reference | Every Reddit endpoint, its parameters and its price: API reference |