Reddit Post API
Fetch a single Reddit post by URL, including its full body text, score, comment count, upvote ratio, and subreddit, as normalized JSON.
$0.50/1k req, pay per request, no subscription.
{"id": "1fk2p9","title": "ELI5: Why does helium make your voice sound high pitched?","author": "curious_otter42","body": "Sound travels about three times faster through helium than through normal air. That does not change the actual vibration rate of your vocal cords, but it does raise the resonant frequencies of your vocal tract, which is what gives the sound its pitch and tone. So your voice actually still has the same fundamental pitch, it just resonates differently, which is why it sounds so much higher and thinner to our ears.","score": 18432,"numComments": 1284,"upvoteRatio": 0.97,"url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1fk2p9/eli5_why_does_helium_make_your_voice_sound_high/",... 10 more fields}
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Reddit Post API pricing: one API, 4 interchangeable providers
The cheapest provider serves first. If it fails, the next one takes over in the same call.
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{
"found": true,
"data": {
"id": "1fk2p9",
"title": "ELI5: Why does helium make your voice sound high pitched?",
"author": "curious_otter42",
"body": "Sound travels about three times faster through helium than through normal air. That does not change the actual vibration rate of your vocal cords, but it does raise the resonant frequencies of your vocal tract, which is what gives the sound its pitch and tone. So your voice actually still has the same fundamental pitch, it just resonates differently, which is why it sounds so much higher and thinner to our ears.",
"score": 18432,
"numComments": 1284,
"upvoteRatio": 0.97,
"url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1fk2p9/eli5_why_does_helium_make_your_voice_sound_high/",
"permalink": "/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1fk2p9/eli5_why_does_helium_make_your_voice_sound_high/",
"createdUtc": 1717430400,
"subreddit": "explainlikeimfive",
"isArchived": false,
"isLocked": false,
"image": "",
"isNsfw": false,
"domain": "self.explainlikeimfive",
"authorId": "9f3k2q"
}
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Last verified 2026-10-31 · uptime and latency measured over 30d
Request body
JSON, posted to this endpoint.
- urlstring
https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1fk2p9/eli5_why_does_helium_make_your_voice_sound_high/
Reddit post URL on reddit.com, e.g. "https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/z1c9z/i_am_barack_obama_president_of_the_united_states/". The /r/<subreddit>/comments/<id>/, /user/<name>/comments/<id>/, /comments/<id>/ and /gallery/<id> forms are accepted. Any other link, such as a share link or a link to another site, is refused as invalid input, with no charge.
Response
JSON, one example value per field.
The post record, or null when nothing was found.
- authorstring
curious_otter42
Author username, without the u/ prefix. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
- authorIdstring
9f3k2q
Reddit account ID of the author, without the t2_ prefix.
- bodystring
Sound travels about three times faster through helium than through normal air. That does not change the actual vibration rate of your vocal cords, but it does raise the resonant frequencies of your vocal tract, which is what gives the sound its pitch and tone. So your voice actually still has the same fundamental pitch, it just resonates differently, which is why it sounds so much higher and thinner to our ears.
The post's own body text (selftext), as Markdown. Empty for link posts, which carry no body. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
- createdUtcnumber
1717430400
UTC epoch timestamp in seconds (Unix time). Multiply by 1000 for a JS Date in milliseconds.
- domainstring
self.explainlikeimfive
Domain the post links to, for example "self.IAmA" for a text post.
- editedUtcnumber
UTC epoch timestamp in seconds (Unix time) of the last edit. Multiply by 1000 for a JS Date in milliseconds.
- idstring
1fk2p9
Reddit post ID (base-36, without the t3_ prefix). Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
- imagestring
Preview image for the post, when Reddit generated one. Reddit signs this URL and it is time-limited, so fetch it promptly rather than storing it; the query string carries the signature and must be kept intact. Empty when the post has no preview image.
- isArchivedboolean
false
True when Reddit has archived the thread, which blocks new comments and votes. Archiving is a per-community setting, so an old thread is not necessarily archived. Absent when the source that served this request does not report it, which means unknown rather than false.
- isLockedboolean
false
True when a moderator has locked the thread, which blocks new comments. Absent when the source that served this request does not report it, which means unknown rather than false.
- isNsfwboolean
false
True when the post is marked NSFW (over 18).
- numCommentsinteger
1284
Total number of comments on the post.
- permalinkstring
/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1fk2p9/eli5_why_does_helium_make_your_voice_sound_high/
Canonical reddit.com thread path for the post (e.g. "/r/golang/comments/abc123/..."). Differs from url, which is the destination link. Empty if the upstream omits it. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
- scoreinteger
18432
Net score (upvotes minus downvotes) at fetch time.
- subredditstring
explainlikeimfive
Subreddit name, without the r/ prefix. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
- titlestring
ELI5: Why does helium make your voice sound high pitched?
Post title. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
- upvoteRationumber
0.97
Fraction of votes that are upvotes, between 0 and 1. Zero when the upstream does not report it.
- urlstring
https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1fk2p9/eli5_why_does_helium_make_your_voice_sound_high/
The post's destination link (the external URL for link posts, or the thread URL for self posts). Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
- foundboolean
true
True when the post was found; false when the lookup returned nothing.
- reason"not_found"
Present only when `found` is false, and says why there is no result. `not_found`: the source states the target does not exist, or returned nothing for it. A `found: false` answer is a successful call, not an error, and `costUsd` is what it actually cost.
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About the Reddit Post API
The AnyAPI Reddit Post API returns Reddit post data as normalized JSON from one POST call to /v1/run/reddit.post. Fetch a single Reddit post by URL, including its full body text, score, comment count, upvote ratio, and subreddit, as normalized JSON. AnyAPI routes each request across 4 sources and falls back automatically when one fails. It costs from $0.50 per 1,000 requests, in US dollars with no subscription and no monthly minimum. Over the last 30 days, 100.0% of Reddit post calls through AnyAPI succeeded, with a median response time of 2.3 seconds across 106,860 measured calls.