Social platforms

Get a Reddit user profile by username · Reddit API

GET/reddit/users/{username}

$min $0.001

Return a Reddit user's public profile by username, including karma, account age, and verification flags. Useful as the entry point for any user-level research.

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Request

curl https://api.unifapi.com/reddit/users/{username} \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $UNIFAPI_KEY"

Parameters

usernamepathrequired: Reddit username without the `u/` prefix, e.g. 'spez'.

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

Resolve a public Reddit identity into structured profile metadata for enrichment agents.
Refresh creator, company, or account snapshots without managing source-specific response shapes.
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

Lookup responses return one canonical object in `data` with stable identifiers, source URLs where available, and platform-specific metadata normalized into predictable JSON.
The `billing.records_charged` field reports the charged billable-record quantity for the successful response.
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

200400401402404429500502503

Billing

This operation charges 1 credit per billable record, with a 1 credit ($0.001) 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 in the data object

A successful Get a Reddit user profile by username call returns one data object with these fields.

idstring: Reddit username (URL slug).
user_t2_idstring: Reddit internal user id (`t2_*` fullname).
namestring
prefixed_namestring: Display form like `u/spez`.
karma_totalnumber
karma_from_postsnumber
karma_from_commentsnumber
is_verifiedboolean
is_employeeboolean

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Agents & Skills built on Reddit

You rarely call Get a Reddit user profile by username 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.