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Reddit Subreddit Details

GET /v1/reddit/subreddit

Get a subreddit's details by name or URL. Returns member count, weekly active users, weekly contributions, title, description, full sidebar, creation date, community type, language, icon and banner, NSFW and quarantine flags, and a status saying whether it is active, private, banned or quarantined.

Cost

$0.003 per request

Free tier

50 requests/month

Parameters

subreddit

Subreddit name, with or without r/, e.g. Python. Provide exactly one of subreddit or url.

url

Subreddit URL, e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/ (max 500 characters). Provide exactly one of subreddit or url.

Example Request

curl "https://apidirect.io/v1/reddit/subreddit?subreddit=Python" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://apidirect.io/v1/reddit/subreddit",
    headers={"X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "subreddit": "Python"
    }
)
print(response.json())

Example Response

{
  "subreddit": {
    "name": "Python",
    "subreddit_id": "2qh0y",
    "title": "Python",
    "description": "The largest Python community for Reddit! Stay up to date with the latest news, packages, and meta information relating to the Python programming language. \n-...",
    "sidebar": "####[The Python Discord](https://discord.gg/python)\n\nNews about the dynamic, interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, extensible programming language Pytho...",
    "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/",
    "subscribers": 1518060,
    "weekly_active_users": 118064,
    "weekly_contributions": 737,
    "created_at": "2008-01-25 03:14:39",
    "type": "public",
    "status": "active",
    "nsfw": false,
    "quarantined": false,
    "icon": "https://styles.redditmedia.com/t5_2qh0y/styles/communityIcon_lctik80p96tg1.png?width=64&frame=1&auto=webp&s=92baaacc951d52b5071629852df033d53cafa5ec",
    "banner": "https://styles.redditmedia.com/t5_2qh0y/styles/bannerBackgroundImage_cd73kiu1502d1.png?frame=1&auto=webp&s=cb043cb4ba040265a97554d8debbeb2ed419db16",
    "language": "en"
  }
}

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