Get Trending Reddit Posts

PythonSocial Media

POST api.upapi.io/reddit-get-trending.get

Fetch trending, hot, rising, top, or new posts from any subreddit with pagination and time filtering. Requires a Reddit session cookie in sessionCookies (obtain it from reddit-login.post, or copy reddit_session out of a signed-in browser) — Reddit has blocked every anonymous read surface since 2026-07-30.

reddittrendingpostssocial

AuthAPI key

Cost4 units

Timeout60s

Cache300s

Request schema

Field	Type	Description
`time`	string	Time filter for 'top' listing: hour, day, week, month, year, all· default: `"day"`
`after`		Pagination cursor· default: `null`
`limit`	integer	Max posts to return· default: `25`
`listing`	string	Listing type: hot, new, rising, top, controversial· default: `"hot"`
`proxyUrl`		User-provided proxy URL· default: `null`
`subreddit`req	string	Subreddit name (without r/)
`sessionCookies`		REQUIRED IN PRACTICE. Reddit account session cookies, as a JSON object or a '; '-delimited cookie header; the blob must contain reddit_session. Since 2026-07-30 Reddit blocks EVERY anonymous read surface, so a call without cookies returns a classified UPSTREAM_BLOCKED rather than data. Obtain the blob from reddit-login.post, or copy the reddit_session cookie out of a signed-in browser. A lead-gen account-pool row stores it nested at cookies->>'sessionCookies', not at the row's top level.· default: `null`

Response schema

Field	Type	Description
`after`req
`posts`req	array
`listing`req	string
`elapsedMs`req	integer
`fetchedAt`req	string
`subreddit`req	string
`totalResults`req	integer

Try it

subredditrequired

Subreddit name (without r/)

timeoptional· default: day

Time filter for 'top' listing: hour, day, week, month, year, all

afteroptional· default: null

Pagination cursor

limitoptional· default: 25

Max posts to return

listingoptional· default: hot

Listing type: hot, new, rising, top, controversial

proxyUrloptional· default: null

User-provided proxy URL

sessionCookiesoptional· default: null

REQUIRED IN PRACTICE. Reddit account session cookies, as a JSON object or a '; '-delimited cookie header; the blob must contain reddit_session. Since 2026-07-30 Reddit blocks EVERY anonymous read surface, so a call without cookies returns a classified UPSTREAM_BLOCKED rather than data. Obtain the blob from reddit-login.post, or copy the reddit_session cookie out of a signed-in browser. A lead-gen account-pool row stores it nested at cookies->>'sessionCookies', not at the row's top level.

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Code examples

curl -X POST https://api.upapi.io/reddit-get-trending.get \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -d '{ "time": "day", "limit": 25, "listing": "hot", "subreddit": "example" }'

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