Social platforms

Search posts within a subreddit · Reddit API

GET/reddit/subreddits/{name}/search

$min $0.003

Searches the posts of one subreddit by text, sorted by relevance, hot, top, new or comments, with a timeframe. Paginate with `cursor`.

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Request

curl https://api.unifapi.com/reddit/subreddits/{name}/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $UNIFAPI_KEY"

Parameters

namepathrequired: Subreddit name without the r/ prefix (exact casing).
queryquery: Search text to match against public subreddit posts.
sortquery: Sort order for search results. Default: `relevance`.
timeframequery: Time range filter for search results. Default: `all`.
cursorquery: Opaque pagination cursor from a previous response's `pagination.next_cursor`. Omit for the first page.

Overview

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

Search Reddit for public mentions, creators, posts, or topics matching a user query.
Feed ranked Reddit results into research, monitoring, and enrichment workflows.
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.

Response shape

Unified envelope, platform-native fields

List-style responses return `data` as an array of top-level records plus optional `pagination` for continuation tokens or cursors.
The operation has a 3 credits ($0.003) minimum charge, so `billing.records_charged` can be higher than the visible records returned.
If the workspace balance cannot cover every result, the response can be truncated and `billing.truncated_due_to_balance` tells the caller why.

Response status codes

200400401402404429500502503

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.

Response fields

Fields on each record in data

A successful Search posts within a subreddit call returns data as an array; each record carries these fields (12 of 19 shown — the docs list the full schema).

idstring | null: Stable post identifier.
post_idstring | null: Post identifier when available.
titlestring | null: Post title.
urlstring | null: Canonical public URL for this post.
permalinkstring | null: Permalink path or URL for this post.
is_nsfwboolean | null: Whether the post is marked as adult content.
is_spoilerboolean | null: Whether the post is marked as a spoiler.
is_crosspostboolean | null: Whether the post is a crosspost.
authorobject | null: Post author when available.
textstring | null: Self-post body text when available.
subredditobject | null: Subreddit metadata when available.
vote_countnumber | null: Vote count when available.

Run it

Agents & Skills built on Reddit

You rarely call Search posts within a subreddit 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.