reddit

Get a Reddit user profile

Returns one Reddit account by username: the four-way karma split, the cake day, the bio, the avatar and banner, the trophy count and the profile title. author.likes_count is TOTAL karma; the split that Reddit users actually reason about is at ext.post_karma, ext.comment_karma and ext.awardee_karma, and the three sum to the total. author.joined_at is the cake day. author.display_name carries Reddit's t2_ fullname, which is the same value and the same encoding this API puts on post.author.display_name and comment.author.display_name, so a profile joins to that account's posts and comments on one field. author.url is the canonical https://www.reddit.com/user/<name>/ profile, derived from the username rather than fetched. author.followers is Reddit's public follower count for the account (subscribers on the upstream). It is a real number: accounts nobody follows report 0, and creator accounts report a non-zero count (measured 09/09/2026: u/GallowBoob 33899, u/spez 0, corroborated by a second independent source on the same day). Reddit publishes no following count and no submission count on this surface, so author.following and author.posts_count stay null. Verification, moderator and employee flags are not available on this surface and are null rather than guessed. When the main source is unavailable, a second source answers the same call with the same fields; only when both are down does the call return a 5xx, which costs nothing. A username that does not exist returns 404 and costs nothing. Usernames are matched case-insensitively.

get/reddit/profile

Request

  • Base URL: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1
  • URL: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/reddit/profile
  • Auth: API key in header x-api-key

Query parameters

handlestring required

Reddit username without the u/ prefix. Case-insensitive.

Headers

Cache-Controlstring

Send no-cache to bypass the response cache and force a live fetch. Billed at the normal endpoint cost; the fresh result is written back to cache for the next caller. Only the no-cache directive triggers this. See the Response Schema guide for details.

Idempotency-Keystring

Optional UUID that makes the request safely retriable. The key is reserved atomically per account before billing. A concurrent retry receives 409 IDEMPOTENCY_IN_PROGRESS with a Retry-After of 1 second while the original is young, growing to a quarter of the time it has been running (at most 30); a crashed reservation expires after 5 minutes. A replay keeps the cached payload immutable except for billing metadata: credits_used becomes 0, idempotent_replay becomes true, and credits_remaining is refreshed to the current balance. A known current balance appears in both the body and X-Credits-Remaining header; no balance row resolves to 0. On a transient lookup failure, body credits_remaining is null and X-Credits-Remaining is omitted. Completed outcomes expire after 24 hours. If the claim store is unavailable, the request fails closed before billing. GET endpoints do not combine idempotent replay with Server-Sent Events: use Accept: application/json when sending this header. The unsupported key-plus-SSE combination is rejected before billing.

Response

Successful response

successboolean required

Whether the request succeeded

platformstring required

Platform name

endpointstring required

API endpoint path

credits_usedinteger required

Number of credits consumed

credits_remaininginteger nullable required

Current account balance, or null when this response could not establish one. Free cache hits always return null because they do not establish an authoritative post-request balance. An idempotency replay also returns null when its current-balance lookup fails. It is never a fabricated zero, so a zero here means the account really is empty. The authoritative reading is the one on a billed response, which comes straight from the deduction.

request_idstring required

Unique request identifier for support

cachedboolean required

Whether the response was served from cache

idempotent_replayboolean

True only when this response is an idempotency replay

Example response

{
  "success": true,
  "platform": "reddit",
  "endpoint": "/v1/reddit/profile",
  "credits_used": 1,
  "credits_remaining": 4999,
  "request_id": "req-abc123",
  "idempotent_replay": true,
  "meta": {
    "hint": {
      "code": "search_multi",
      "message": "You searched \"matcha\" on 3 platforms one call at a time; /v1/search/multi returns each platform's own search rows in one call at the same price per platform, and a platform with no rows is not charged.",
      "method": "GET",
      "path": "/v1/search/multi?query=matcha&platforms=instagram,tiktok,youtube"
    }
  }
}

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.