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Reddit API Integrations

Build and run workflows using the Reddit API. Use 1000s of source-available triggers and actions across 1400+ apps. Or write custom code to integrate any app or API in seconds.

Overview

  1. You could build a tool that monitors specific subreddits and notifies you when new posts match certain criteria.
  2. You could build a tool that analyzes the posts and comments in a given subreddit to generate statistics or visualizations about the topic.
  3. You could build a bot that automatically posts or comments in response to certain keywords or phrases.
  4. You could build a tool that helps manage your Reddit account by automating tasks like posting, messaging, or voting.
  5. You could build a tool that extracts data from Reddit posts and comments for use in other applications.
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import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform"
export default defineComponent({
  props: {
    reddit: {
      type: "app",
      app: "reddit",
    }
  },
  async run({steps, $}) {
    return await axios($, {
      url: `https://oauth.reddit.com/api/v1/me`,
      headers: {
        Authorization: `Bearer ${this.reddit.$auth.oauth_access_token}`,
      },
    })
  },
})

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Trigger workflows on an interval or cron schedule.
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Python
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Use Pipedream Data Stores to manage state throughout your workflows.
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Getting Started

To get started, you will need to create an app within Reddit. The steps are outlined below:

Create a Reddit app

  1. Sign in to your Reddit account, and navigate to the applications page.
  2. Name the app "Pipedream", or another name of your choosing.
  3. Select web app.
  4. Add a description, e.g "This app will be used to connect Pipedream to Reddit."
  5. Add an "about url".
  6. Under "redirect uri", enter https://api.pipedream.com/connect/oauth/oa_G7AioA/callback
  7. Click create app.

Create App

Register your new app on Reddit

In order to maintain access to the Reddit APIs, you will need to register your app.

  1. Navigate to the Submit a request form.
  2. Fill out the form under API Support, and select I want to register to use the free tier of the Reddit API.
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Connect your Reddit app with Pipedream using your client id and client secret

  1. In the new app you have created, your client id is located underneath the app name.
  2. The client secret is located next to secret.

client id

  1. When connecting the Reddit app in Pipedream, copy and paste your client id along with your client secret.
  2. Click Connect and your custom Reddit app should be integrated into Pipedream!

Popular Reddit Integrations

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Get Values in Range with Google Sheets API on New comments on a post from Reddit API
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List Comments in a Post with Reddit API on New Item in Feed from RSS API
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Popular Reddit Triggers

New Comments by User from the Reddit API

Emit new event each time a user posts a new comment.

 
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New comments on a post from the Reddit API

Emit new event each time a new comment is added to a subreddit.

 
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New hot posts on a subreddit from the Reddit API

Emit new event each time a new hot post is added to the top 10 items in a subreddit.

 
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New Links by User from the Reddit API

Emit new event each time a user posts a new link.

 
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New Links on a Subreddit from the Reddit API

Emit new event each time a new link is added to a subreddit

 
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Popular Reddit Actions

List Comments in a Post with the Reddit API

List comments for a specific post. See the docs here

 
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List Subreddits by Query with the Reddit API

List subreddits based on a search criteria. See the docs here

 
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Search Post with the Reddit API

Search posts by title. See the docs here

 
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Submit a Comment with the Reddit API

Submit a new comment or reply to a message. See the docs here

 
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Submit a Post with the Reddit API

Create a post to a subreddit. See the docs here

 
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Authentication

Reddit uses OAuth authentication. When you connect your Reddit account, Pipedream will open a popup window where you can sign into Reddit and grant Pipedream permission to connect to your account. Pipedream securely stores and automatically refreshes the OAuth tokens so you can easily authenticate any Reddit API.

Pipedream requests the following authorization scopes when you connect your account:

accountidentityedithistoryreadsubmitmysubredditssubscribe
OAuth Request Configurations:
  1. authorization
    GEThttps://www.reddit.com/api/v1/authorize?client_id={{custom_fields.client_id}}&redirect_uri={{oauth.redirect_uri}}&state={{oauth.state}}&response_type=code&scope={{oauth.space_separated_scopes}}&duration=permanent
  2. accessToken
    POSThttps://www.reddit.com/api/v1/access_tokencontent-type: application/x-www-form-urlencodedaccept: application/json
    redirect_uri={{oauth.redirect_uri}}&grant_type=authorization_code&code={{oauth.code}}
  3. refreshToken
    POSThttps://www.reddit.com/api/v1/access_tokencontent-type: application/x-www-form-urlencodedaccept: application/json
    grant_type=refresh_token&refresh_token={{oauth.refresh_token}}

Community Posts

Building a Reddit Workflow with Pipedream
Building a Reddit Workflow with Pipedream
Almost four years ago I blogged about a demo I built using Reddit's API. The demo was a multi-user application that made use of Mongo for persistence and Passport.js for user authentication. You would login, select subreddit's to subscribe to, and then once a day it would email you the new posts from that subreddit. This was built in a "traditional" Node.js style with a server running full time to process requests. I thought it would be fun to build this again (although slightly different) using Pipedream's support for working with the Reddit API. I built two different versions of a simple workflow I'd like to share below.
Updating my Reddit Workflow with Pipedream
Updating my Reddit Workflow with Pipedream
Back almost exactly a month ago, I blogged about using Pipedream to build a Reddit email report. The idea was that I wanted a daily email of posts from my subscribed subreddits for the past 24 hours of content. The implementation was a bit complex. I used one workflow to handle "get a days worth of content from subreddit" as a general "API" and another workflow connected to my authentication. It handles getting my subscriptions, hitting the API, and then generating the email. This worked well, but after a while of actually getting the email, I noticed some problems. So I decided to fix that.
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