Extract subreddit posts as structured data.
Provide a subreddit name and receive a clean JSON array of posts. No OAuth2 flows, User-Agent rotation, or nested response parsing required.
Live demo
Try it live.
Change the parameters and run a real request against the endpoint. No account, no key.
Free to try, no account. Costs 5 credits on your own key.
Run the request to see a live response.
curl -X POST https://automatio.ai/api/v1/query \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $AUTOMATIO_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"tool":"reddit_subreddit","params":{"subreddit":"webdev","limit":5}}'How it works
One request, one response.
- 1
Specify the subreddit
Call the endpoint with the target community name and desired sorting method.
- 2
Fetch community content
The system retrieves the latest posts directly from the origin platform's public feed.
- 3
Ingest structured JSON
Receive a flattened object containing post metadata, content, and pagination tokens.
Capabilities
What you get.
Everything this endpoint does, without running the infrastructure yourself.
Standardized Sorting
Access posts via hot, new, top, rising, or controversial rankings to match platform feed logic.
Temporal Filtering
Narrow results to specific time windows like the past day or year when sorting by popularity.
Sequential Pagination
Use cursor tokens to move through deep history across multiple request cycles.
Metadata Extraction
Capture post scores, author handles, and timestamps in a consistent format for every call.
Cost of ownership
Build it yourself, or call this.
Both are real options. Here is what each one actually costs you.
Run it yourself
- Register developer apps and secrets
- Implement OAuth2 token refresh logic
- Manage User-Agent strings and 429 errors
- Parse complex nested JSON structures
Call the API
- Authenticate with one persistent key
- Use a single POST body for all subreddits
- Scale without managing account reputation
- Ingest clean, flattened JSON immediately
Integrate
Built for the language you use.
One HTTP endpoint. Copy the call in your language and go.
curl -X POST https://automatio.ai/api/v1/query \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $AUTOMATIO_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ "tool": "reddit_subreddit", "params": { "subreddit": "webdev" } }'In production
What people build with it.
Market Research Tools
Analyze the top-performing posts of all time in a niche subreddit to identify what content resonates with a specific demographic. This provides historical context for brand positioning without manual scraping.
Sentiment Analysis Pipelines
Collect new posts from industry communities to feed LLMs for real-time brand reputation monitoring and alerting. Data comes back pre-parsed for immediate injection into analysis models.
Trend Monitoring Dashboards
Track rising posts in developer or finance communities to spot emerging topics before they reach mainstream news cycles. The data includes timestamps and scores to identify high-velocity discussions.
Choosing parameters
Which options matter.
The table below lists what exists. These are the calls worth making deliberately.
- sort
- limit
- after
Alternatives
When to use something else.
A page that pretends it has no alternatives reads as an advert. These are the other real options.
Official Reddit API
Best for applications requiring user-specific actions like posting, but requires managing complex OAuth2 flows and strict User-Agent rules.
RSS Feeds
A zero-code option for basic monitoring that lacks deep metadata, pagination control, and advanced sorting filters.
Before you integrate
What it does not do.
The boundaries are as useful as the features. These are the ones worth knowing up front.
Public Data Only
This tool cannot access private, quarantined, or banned communities regardless of your personal account permissions on the platform.
No Comment Trees
Post listings do not include full comment threads; a separate post-specific tool is required to extract deep discussion data or nested replies.
Read-Only Access
The API does not support write actions such as creating posts, voting, or moderator functions on behalf of a user.
Reference
5 credits per call- Endpoint
- POST https://automatio.ai/api/v1/query
- Tool ID
- reddit_subreddit
Parameters
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| subreddit | string | Subreddit name (e.g., "programming", "technology") | |
| sort | "hot" | "top" | "new" | "rising" | "controversial" | — | Sort order |
| time | "hour" | "day" | "week" | "month" | "year" | "all" | — | Time filter (for top/controversial) |
| limit | number | — | Posts per page (default: 25) |
| after | string | — | Pagination cursor from previous response |
The same endpoints are available over MCP, and the full machine-readable catalogue lives in the API documentation.
Frequently Asked Questions
Find answers to common questions about Subreddit API
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