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title: "List the posts in a subreddit"
description: "Run job:reddit.subreddit.posts through the looot API: 3 providers, from $0.001 per call. Inputs, prices, output shape and code for curl, JavaScript and Python."
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List the posts in a subreddit.

Job id `reddit.subreddit.posts`, in [Social data](/catalog/social) (Reddit). As of 2026-10-01, 3 providers serve it through 3 tools. Run `job:reddit.subreddit.posts` and looot picks one of them; with `fallback` on, a miss moves on to the next. See [Jobs](/concepts/jobs).

## Inputs

Fields the job's tools take, most shared first. Any key you send passes through unchanged.

| Name | Type | Taken by | Required by | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `sort` | string | 3 of 3 | 0 | Sort method: BEST, HOT, NEW, TOP, CONTROVERSIAL, RISING |
| `after` | string | 2 of 3 | 0 | Pagination parameter |
| `subreddit` | string | 2 of 3 | 2 |   |
| `cache_max_age` | string | 1 of 3 | 0 |   |
| `count` | integer | 1 of 3 | 1 | Max result count. Example: 25 |
| `filter_posts` | array | 1 of 3 | 0 | Filter post IDs |
| `language` | string | 1 of 3 | 0 | Preferred response language as an IETF language tag; default: en-US |
| `need_format` | boolean | 1 of 3 | 0 | Whether to clean and format the data |
| `subreddit_name` | string | 1 of 3 | 1 | Subreddit name |
| `time_filter` | string | 1 of 3 | 0 |   |
| `timeframe` | string | 1 of 3 | 0 |   |
| `timeout` | integer | 1 of 3 | 0 | Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) |
| `trim` | boolean | 1 of 3 | 0 |   |
| `x-request-id` | string | 1 of 3 | 0 |   |

## Providers and prices

| Provider | Tool | Price |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [TikHub](/providers/tikhub) | [`tikhub-api-reddit-app-fetch-subreddit-feed`](/reference/tools/tikhub-api-reddit-app-fetch-subreddit-feed) | $0.001 per call |
| [ScrapeCreators](/providers/scrapecreators) | [`scrapecreators-reddit-subreddit`](/reference/tools/scrapecreators-reddit-subreddit) | $0.00188 per call |
| [Anysite](/providers/anysite) | [`anysite-api-reddit-subreddits-posts`](/reference/tools/anysite-api-reddit-subreddits-posts) | $0.0036 per call |

A call that fails at the provider costs $0. See [What's free](/money/free-and-failures).

## Output

Each provider answers in its own shape. Shape of the run's `result` from [`scrapecreators-reddit-subreddit`](/reference/tools/scrapecreators-reddit-subreddit), checked against 1 real answer:

```txt
{ after, posts: { id, ups, url, name, downs, score, title, author, domain, created, over_18, spoiler, is_video, selftext, permalink, post_hint, subreddit, created_utc, num_comments, subreddit_id, upvote_ratio, selftext_html, created_at_iso, author_fullname, subreddit_subscribers, total_awards_received }[], success, credits_charged, credits_remaining }
```

## Run it

Every call needs your API token in `LOOOT_TOKEN`; [Sign in](/get-started/sign-in#use-the-token-in-scripts-and-agents) shows how to get one. Each run also needs a new idempotency key, so a retry never pays twice. With `wait: 30` the answer comes back inline when the run ends within 30 seconds. Otherwise you get the running run back: poll `GET /v1/runs/<runId>`.

Example input with placeholder values:

<CodeGroup>

```bash curl
curl -X POST "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOOOT_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{"endpointId":"job:reddit.subreddit.posts","input":{"subreddit_name":"<subreddit_name>"},"wait":30}'
```

```js JavaScript
const response = await fetch("https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.LOOOT_TOKEN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    endpointId: "job:reddit.subreddit.posts",
    input: {
      subreddit_name: "<subreddit_name>",
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);
```

```python Python
import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['LOOOT_TOKEN']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "endpointId": "job:reddit.subreddit.posts",
        "input": {
            "subreddit_name": "<subreddit_name>",
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))
```

</CodeGroup>

To pin one provider, send its tool id as `endpointId` instead of `job:reddit.subreddit.posts`.