Reddit user_posts API

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

1 documented endpoints
GET /v1/reddit/users/{username}/posts

Contract summary (English): List recent posts of a user (capability reddit.user_posts)

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

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

Use cases

Monitor what a {{platform}} account publishes, in order, with normalized per-item metrics.
Detect new activity when scheduled jobs re-query the feed — ideal for alerting and digest workflows.
Benchmark publishing cadence and engagement across accounts with comparable, structured output.

Response fields

Reddit user posts response (normalized envelope)

Response envelope for GET /v1/reddit/users/{username}/posts (capability reddit.user_posts). Cursor is opaque and platform-independent; when the upstream provider is switched the old cursors become invalid. Page size follows the request's `limit` parameter (1..100, default 20).

Field	Type	Required	Description
data	post[]	Required	—
next_cursor	string \| null	Required	Opaque pagination cursor; null when the list is exhausted.
meta.request_id	string	Required	—
meta.freshness.mode	cache \| default \| live	Required	—
meta.freshness.age_seconds	integer \| null	Optional	—
meta.freshness.source_layer	cache \| db \| upstream	Required	—
meta.freshness.stale	boolean	Optional	—
meta.billing.cache_hit	boolean	Required	—
meta.billing.amount_credits	integer	Required	Credits actually charged for this request (the settlement unit; 1 credit = $0.0001, permanent).

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/users/{username}/posts

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

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "1simpost01",
      "platform": "reddit",
      "type": "post",
      "author": {
        "id": "7004994945",
        "username": "creatordev",
        "display_name": null,
        "verified": false
      },
      "title": "First post on the platform.",
      "text": "One API for every platform.",
      "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/dataapi/comments/1simpost01/",
      "created_at": "2026-09-16T19:23:20Z",
      "metrics": {
        "upvotes": 864,
        "downvotes": 12,
        "comments": 42
      },
      "attachments": [],
      "fetched_at": "2026-09-18T09:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "1simpost02",
      "platform": "reddit",
      "type": "post",
      "author": {
        "id": "7004994945",
        "username": "creatordev",
        "display_name": null,
        "verified": false
      },
      "title": "Freshness modes, explained.",
      "text": "One API for every platform.",
      "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/dataapi/comments/1simpost02/",
      "created_at": "2026-09-16T08:00:00Z",
      "metrics": {
        "upvotes": 412,
        "downvotes": 9,
        "comments": 18
      },
      "attachments": [
        {
          "type": "photo",
          "url": "https://cdn.example.com/p1-full.jpg",
          "preview_image_url": "https://cdn.example.com/p1.jpg"
        },
        {
          "type": "video",
          "url": "https://cdn.example.com/p2.mp4",
          "preview_image_url": "https://cdn.example.com/p2.jpg"
        }
      ],
      "fetched_at": "2026-09-18T09:00:00Z"
    }
  ],
  "next_cursor": "eyJ2IjoxLCJzcmMiOiJ4dGhpcmQiLCJwb3MiOiJ0M19zaW0ifQ",
  "meta": {
    "request_id": "req_01HTXQ8Z9HTQ",
    "freshness": {
      "mode": "default",
      "age_seconds": 0,
      "source_layer": "upstream",
      "stale": false
    },
    "billing": {
      "amount_credits": 200,
      "cache_hit": false
    }
  }
}

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Parameter tables, error codes and response semantics for this endpoint live in the API documentation.

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Frequently asked questions

Can I poll the feed on a schedule?

Yes — the endpoint is a plain REST call, so any scheduler can re-query it. Use the freshness parameters to control how current each answer is and how it is billed.

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 user_posts 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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