Get the transcript of a Reddit video post · Reddit API
Returns the transcript of a Reddit-hosted video post, optionally in a given language. Returns `not_found` when the post does not exist.
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curl https://api.unifapi.com/reddit/posts/{id}/transcript \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $UNIFAPI_KEY"Parameters
- idpathrequired
- Reddit post id (`t3_` prefix optional).
- languagequery
- Optional ISO 639-1 language code (two letters) to prefer when multiple caption tracks exist.
This operation is part of the Reddit API in the social platforms category. It uses the same Bearer token, request tracing, error model, and billing envelope as every UnifAPI endpoint, so agents can switch between platforms without custom per-vendor glue code.
Use it when a workflow needs Reddit public data alongside other social networks, but should still keep one API key, one account balance, and one predictable JSON contract.
Common agent workflows
- Fetch canonical public Reddit content for summarization, ranking, monitoring, or enrichment.
- Attach engagement, author, media, and source metadata to an agent workflow.
- Give an AI agent a stable Reddit data source without building a per-platform integration.
- Normalize Reddit responses into the same UnifAPI envelope used across the catalog.
Unified envelope, platform-native fields
- Lookup responses return one canonical object in `data` with stable identifiers, source URLs where available, and platform-specific metadata normalized into predictable JSON.
- The operation has a 3 credits ($0.003) minimum charge, so `billing.records_charged` can be higher than the visible records returned.
- A not-found or invalid-input condition uses the unified UnifAPI error shape, so callers do not need special handling for each source platform.
Response status codes
Billing
This operation charges 1 credit per billable record, with a 3 credits ($0.003) operation minimum. Public responses include billing metadata with credits charged, records charged, and remaining workspace balance. Incorrect Credit deductions caused by platform failures can be restored as billing corrections.
Errors and retries
Authentication, validation, rate-limit, not-found, and provider errors use the unified UnifAPI error format. Agents should log `request_id`, retry only retryable failures, and treat invalid API keys, disabled keys, and expired keys as the same public `unauthorized` error type.
Fields in the data object
A successful Get the transcript of a Reddit video post call returns one data object with these fields.
- idstring | null
- Stable post identifier.
- urlstring | null
- Canonical public post URL.
- video_idstring | null
- Hosted video identifier when available.
- transcriptobject | null
- Transcript content when captions are available. Null when the post resolved but captions are not exposed.
Agents & Skills built on Reddit
You rarely call Get the transcript of a Reddit video post by hand. These prebuilt agents and skills already read Reddit data inside Claude or Codex — start from one of them, or call this endpoint yourself.
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