Reddit post API

Reddit post data in one REST call — normalized to the stable JSON schema shared across every FetchPI platform.

1 documented endpoints
GET /v1/reddit/posts/{id}

Contract summary (English): Get a normalized Reddit post (capability reddit.post)

Normalized response entity: reddit/post
capability: reddit.post

Every response also carries freshness (cache / default / live) and billing metadata.

Use cases

Feed content-analysis pipelines with structured {{platform}} posts: text, metrics, timestamps and media references.
Power moderation, research and monitoring workflows that need the original content plus engagement counts.
Archive {{platform}} content as stable, normalized JSON instead of brittle page scraping.

Response fields

Reddit Post (normalized)

Normalized Reddit post. Provider-private fields MUST NOT appear. Metric names are frozen (upvotes/downvotes/comments — 升/降票/评论). `title` is the platform extension field (the post headline — text carries the selftext body); `url` is the post link. The id is the t3 base36 id without prefix. author is nullable: posts by deleted/suspended accounts ship no resolvable author (a present-but-incomplete author block still fails).

Field	Type	Required	Description
id	string	Required	Post id (t3 base36 without prefix).
platform	"reddit"	Required	—
type	"post"	Required	—
author.id	string	Required	t2 base36 id without prefix.
author.username	string	Required	The Reddit username (without u/).
author.display_name	string \| null	Optional	—
author.verified	boolean	Optional	—
title	string \| null	Optional	The post headline.
text	string \| null	Optional	The selftext body.
url	string \| null	Optional	The post (or external link) URL.
created_at	string	Required	Post creation time (created_utc), UTC RFC3339.
metrics.upvotes	integer	Required	Upvote count (ups).
metrics.downvotes	integer	Required	Downvote count (downs).
metrics.comments	integer	Required	Comment count (num_comments).
attachments	object[]	Optional	The post media (preview image and/or the hosted video).
fetched_at	string	Required	—

Field notes are shown in the contract's original English.

Response meta

Field	Type	Required	Description
mode	cache \| default \| live	Required	Effective mode after merging param > max_age > source policy (D-004).
age_seconds	integer \| null	Optional	Age of served data; null when unknown.
source_layer	cache \| db \| upstream	Required	Which layer served the response (PRD §10).
stale	boolean	Optional	True when stale data was served under stale_if_error / SWR (D-004).
billing.amount_credits	integer	Required	Micro-USD (1e-6 USD) actually charged for this request.
billing.cache_hit	boolean	Required	—

Field notes are shown in the contract's original English.

Example request & response

GET/v1/reddit/posts/{id}

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $MESHDATA_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.fetchpi.com/v1/reddit/posts/1842951234567890123"

{
  "data": {
    "id": "1simpost01",
    "platform": "reddit",
    "type": "post",
    "author": {
      "id": "7004994945",
      "username": "creatordev",
      "display_name": null,
      "verified": false
    },
    "title": "One API for every platform.",
    "text": "One API for every platform.",
    "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/dataapi/comments/1simpost01/",
    "created_at": "2026-09-17T12:34:56Z",
    "metrics": {
      "upvotes": 864,
      "downvotes": 12,
      "comments": 42
    },
    "attachments": [],
    "fetched_at": "2026-09-18T07:30:00Z"
  },
  "meta": {
    "request_id": "req_01HTXQ8Z9HTQ",
    "freshness": {
      "mode": "default",
      "age_seconds": 3600,
      "source_layer": "cache",
      "stale": false
    },
    "billing": {
      "amount_credits": 0,
      "cache_hit": true
    }
  }
}

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Frequently asked questions

Which content fields are included?

The normalized content entity — text, author, timestamps, engagement metrics and media references — as documented in the field table below, plus freshness and billing metadata.

Can I try this endpoint for free?

Yes — register an account, grab an API key and call it from the Playground in the console.

How is the post capability billed?

Data API calls are billed per request in credits, with different cache/live freshness multipliers. Current per-capability prices live on the pricing page.

Pricing

Per-request credit billing with cache/live freshness options — current prices live on the pricing page.

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