Get subreddit | Reddit API

Get a community's description, creation date, activity figures, and rules. data: null means the community does not exist.

1 credit / requestBilled only on success

Authorization

ApiKeyAuth

x-api-key<token>

In: header

Query Parameters

subreddit*string

Community name, e.g. technology. Accepts r/technology or a URL. 2-21 letters, digits or underscores. An unknown community returns data: null.

Lengthlength <= 300

curl -X GET "https://example.com/v1/reddit/subreddit-info?subreddit=technology" \  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

{  "data": {    "id": "2qh16",    "fullname": "t5_2qh16",    "name": "technology",    "display_name": "/r/Technology",    "prefixed_name": "r/technology",    "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/",    "description": "Subreddit dedicated to the news and discussions about…",    "weekly_active_users": 4305645,    "weekly_contributions": 1204,    "created_at": "2008-01-25T05:00:00.000+0000",    "rules": [      {        "number": 1,        "title": "Submissions must be about technology",        "description": "The full expanded text of the rule."      }    ],    "usage_note": "From the subreddit's right-rail fragment, not from its page: the page shell carries no Open Graph, no Twitter card and no JSON-LD at all. `weekly_active_users` is Reddit's own `weekly-active-users` attribute and is NOT the subscriber count — it runs far above member totals and no subscriber figure is exposed on any surface reachable without a login. `rules` is the full numbered list with each rule's expanded description."  }}