Reddit User Scraper

Pull what a Reddit user has posted, what they've commented, or their public profile — karma, account age, and trophies — as clean, consistent JSON.

What you're collecting

"Scrape a user" can mean three different things: what they've posted, what they've said in comments across other people's posts, or who they are — karma, account age, trophies. UGC Scraper treats these as three separate, purpose-built endpoints rather than one bundle you have to pick fields out of.

A user's submitted posts

POST /v1/user returns up to 100 of a user's own submitted posts as summaries — the same shape as a subreddit listing.

curl -X POST https://api.ugcscraper.com/v1/user \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer rps_live_your_key" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"target":"spez","limit":25}'

A user's comments, with post context

POST /v1/user/comments returns that user's own comments, each paired with the title and body of the post it was posted on — so you don't have to make a second call to know what they were replying to. Supports an after/before Unix-timestamp cursor for paging through a large comment history. See the Reddit Comment Scraper page for the full output shape.

A user's public profile

POST /v1/user/profile returns the public profile fields Reddit exposes: karma, account age, admin/premium/ verified-email status, trophy case, and their moderator-of list (when not hidden by the user's own privacy setting).

curl -X POST https://api.ugcscraper.com/v1/user/profile \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer rps_live_your_key" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"target":"spez"}'
{
  "username": "spez",
  "post_karma": 184021,
  "comment_karma": 756248,
  "total_karma": 940269,
  "created_utc": 1118030400,
  "is_admin": true,
  "has_verified_email": true,
  "is_premium": true,
  "trophies": ["15-Year Club", "Verified Email", "Reddit Premium", "..."],
  "moderator_of": null,
  "is_mod": true
}

moderator_of is null when the account moderates somewhere but has hidden the list — is_mod stays true either way, so "hidden" and "moderates nothing" (an empty list) stay distinguishable.

Not available

Private fields Reddit itself never exposes publicly — birthdate, email, phone number, payment info, private messages, saved/hidden content — for any account, not just this one. None of that is fabricated or guessed; it's simply absent.

Practical use cases

  • Moderator/community research— see who's active and moderating in the communities you track.
  • Account verification signals — karma and account age as a lightweight trust signal before engaging with an account programmatically.
  • Contributor analysis— pair a user's post history with their comment history to understand one account's full footprint in a research dataset.

Reddit user scraper FAQ

What can I get about a Reddit user?

Three distinct things, each its own endpoint: their submitted posts, their comments across posts (with the parent post's title/body attached), and their public profile — karma, account age, trophies, and moderator status.

Can I see a user's karma and account age?

Yes — POST /v1/user/profile returns post karma, comment karma, total karma, account creation date, and their trophy case, plus admin/premium/verified-email status.

Can I tell if a user moderates any subreddits?

Yes, with one nuance: moderator_of is a list when visible, but null specifically when the account moderates somewhere but has hidden that list in their privacy settings — is_mod stays true either way, so you can tell 'hidden' apart from 'moderates nothing.'

Does this expose private information like email or DMs?

No. Only what Reddit itself makes publicly visible on a profile is returned — birthdate, email, phone number, payment info, private messages, and saved/hidden content are never exposed by Reddit's own public profile, so they're never in this response either.

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