It is an API that gives your code public conversations matching terms you care about, such as a brand, a competitor or a problem. A listening tool shows those conversations in its own dashboard; an API hands you the raw posts and comments so you can filter, score and store them in your own product.
A social media listening API for Reddit
A social media listening API returns public posts and comments that match your keywords, so you can build alerts, dashboards or reports on them. Redditapis is that layer for Reddit: search posts and comments over REST at $0.0015 a read, or register a monitor and receive matches at your own endpoint. There is no Reddit developer app and no review.
The Reddit layer of a listening product
Listening on Reddit is four jobs, and most teams only think about the first. A keyword hit tells you a word appeared. To act on it you need the thread around it, a way to hear about new hits without polling, and enough about the subreddit to know whether the mention carries any weight.
Find what was said
Search posts across Reddit or inside one subreddit, and search comment bodies directly.
GET /api/reddit/searchRead the whole thread
A match in a comment means little alone, so pull the post and its comment tree for context.
GET /api/reddit/commentsHear about it as it happens
Register a monitor with your filter, and each new match is sent to your endpoint as a signed HTTPS POST.
Live monitoringLearn who the community is
Pull subreddit details, rules, top posts and moderators to weigh a mention before you score it.
GET /api/reddit/sub/:name/aboutWhich option fits what you are building
The right answer depends on who does the filtering and how many networks you need. If you want one inbox across many networks, a suite is the better buy and you should choose one. If you are building your own product, or Reddit is the channel that matters, you want the data itself.
| Option | Best for | Cost | Left for you |
|---|---|---|---|
| Redditapis reads | Your own product or pipeline, Reddit only | $0.0015 a read, 1,000 free a month | Matching, relevance, sentiment and storage |
| Redditapis monitors | Reddit alerts without writing a poller | One free watch, then flat monthly plans, no credits used | Whatever happens after the webhook |
| Multi-platform listening API, such as Octolens | Mentions from many networks in one schema | An annual subscription with a monthly mention quota, per Octolens on 5 Nov 2026 | Less work: relevance and sentiment come with each mention |
| Reddit Data API | Teams that already hold approved access | New requests closed on 31 October 2026 | Moving to the Developer Platform before Reddit's 2027 dates |
What you still build yourself
Redditapis returns what Reddit shows: post and comment text, score, author, subreddit and timestamps. It does not label sentiment or decide what counts as relevant. That is deliberate, because those are the parts that make your product yours, but it is real work. Our guide to Reddit sentiment analysis covers the options. Plan for page size too: per our own usage logs, measured on paying calls in the 14 days to 29 October 2026, a post search returned a median of 7 posts and a subreddit listing a median of 25, so a listening job that sets limit=100 pays far less per mention. For a side-by-side with a hosted tool, see Redditapis vs Octolens. If your product tracks AI answers, see Reddit data for GEO tools.
Frequently asked
Only for Reddit. It covers Reddit and no other network, and it does not score sentiment or relevance for you. If you want every network in one inbox with scoring included, buy a suite. If you are building listening into your own product, or Reddit is the network that matters to you, reads and monitors give you the raw data at a lower floor.
Use reads when you decide what to fetch and when, such as a backfill, a nightly report or a search box in your product. Use monitors when you want new matches sent to you without running a poller. Many teams use both: reads for the history and monitors for what comes next. See the monitoring API page.
No. You sign up, create a Redditapis key and send it as a bearer token. Reddit's own app registration is not part of it, which is why Reddit closing new Data API requests on 31 October 2026 does not stand between you and a first call. The data access page says what we are and are not.
Reads are $0.0015 each and the first 1,000 every month are free, so 10,000 reads cost $15 before that allowance. A read returns a page of results, not one item, so your cost per mention depends on your page size. One keyword watch is free on every account. The pricing page has the rest.
That depends on what you build and where you operate, so read the acceptable use policy and take your own legal advice for a commercial product. Redditapis returns public content only, unless you connect your own Reddit account for the endpoints that act as you.
Reviewed 2026-11-05.