# Reddit Profile Comments API (https://www.socialcrawl.dev/platforms/reddit/profile-comments)

> Returns the comments one Reddit account has written, newest first, read from the account's own listing rather than from a search index. **That distinction is the whole endpoint.** `/v1/reddit/search/comments?query=author:username` costs 1 credit for a page and looks like the same thing, but it reads Reddit's search index, which holds a small relevance-ranked subset: measured 07/09/2026 on one account, the search route returned 9 comments and then stopped, while this endpoint returned 60 in chronological order reaching back to 2021. **Start with the search route.** Come here when you need the history rather than a sample. Each row carries the comment text, the score, the permalink, the post it sits under at `post_id` and `ext.post_url`, the community at `ext.subreddit`, and a real `parent_id` — `t1_` on a reply and `t3_` on a top-level comment, so a comment whose `parent_id` equals its `post_id` is top-level. `ext.is_submitter` is Reddit's OP badge, true when the commenter also wrote the post they are replying under, and `ext.controversiality` is Reddit's own flag for a comment with roughly balanced up and down votes, which the score alone hides. `limit` is a real depth control and not a page size: a higher `limit` reaches further back, at the same speed. There is no cursor, because the depth control makes one unnecessary — ask for the depth you want in one call. **Pricing is metered at 2 credits per comment RETURNED**, so an account with fewer comments than your `limit` costs less than you asked for. A username that does not exist returns an empty list and costs nothing, and so does a real account that has never commented — this upstream cannot tell them apart, so call `/v1/reddit/profile` when you need to know which it was.

TL;DR: `GET /v1/reddit/profile/comments` costs 2 credits per comment returned. A limit of 25 holds 50 credits and settles down to the number of comments that actually came back; an account with no comments costs nothing. and returns SocialCrawl's unified JSON schema. Single x-api-key auth, 100 free credits on signup.

## Parameters

| Parameter | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `handle` | yes | Reddit username without the u/ prefix. Case-insensitive. |
| `limit` | no | How many comments to return, 1-100, default 25. This is a depth control, not a page size: a higher limit reaches further back into the account's history at the same speed. |
| `before` | no | Only return comments older than this date (YYYY-MM-DD). Use it to walk a long history in windows instead of raising limit. |

## Code example

```bash
curl "https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/reddit/profile/comments?handle=spez" \
  -H "x-api-key: sc_YOUR_API_KEY"
```

See the full Reddit API: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/platforms/reddit

## Pricing

- Standard endpoints: 1 credit per call
- Advanced endpoints: 5 credits per call
- Premium endpoints: 10 credits per call
- 100 free credits on signup, no credit card required. Cached responses cost 0 credits. Credit packs never expire.
- Full pricing: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/pricing