Reddit is a social news aggregation, discussion, and community platform where users submit, vote, and comment on content organized into topic-based communities called subreddits. Reddit provides developer APIs for accessing platform data, managing communities, running advertising campaigns, and embedding content. The Reddit Data API provides access to posts, comments, subreddits, user profiles, and moderation tools via OAuth 2.0. The Reddit Ads API enables programmatic management of advertising campaigns, audiences, and conversion tracking. All API access requires OAuth 2.0 authentication via the oauth.reddit.com server at 60 requests per minute.
Reddit publishes 12 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Account API, Flair API, Links & Comments API, and 9 more. Tagged areas include Reddit, Advertising, Community, Content, and Social Media.
The Reddit catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.
Reddit’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, support, signup flow, and 23 more developer resources.
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the
Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so
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Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it
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holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in
front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created.
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Reddit is an area vendor: providers adopt it to run part of their developer surface. This is the Kin Score checks its features can move for a provider that adopts it, what each one really earns, and what it earns nothing for.
communitycapability map1 features checked 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.22.0
A subreddit is the weakest community pointer on the Kin Score. Declared as Community it earns half of support_channel (1 of 2 points) only because that type is never probed. Declared as Support it is probed, and www.reddit.com answers every subreddit path, real or invented, with the same 8.4 KB page (checked 2026-09-25 with both a browser and a bot user agent), so it grades soft-404 and earns nothing, as the one Reddit support pointer in the catalog already does. Subreddits are also created and moderated by redditors, so a provider may not own the community it points at.
Developer Ergonomics1.0 of 42 pts
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Support channelconditional Developer ErgonomicsOnly while Community pointers stay unprobed. Declared as Support, or once the probe reads Community, www.reddit.com returns an identical ~8.4 KB 200 for a real and a nonexistent subreddit, the pointer grades soft-404 and the credit is 0. The one Reddit supp…
Across 8977 providers that publish a contract, adopting Reddit would move 0. Median lift: composite +0.0 (90th percentile +0.0), agent readiness +0.0 (+0.0). Conditional rows excluded.
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