# API Direct – Reddit User Profile Lookup

> API Direct – Reddit User Profile Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from x402.apidirect.io, paid per call via x402, $0.004/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-30).

Fetches a Reddit user's public profile data given their username or profile URL.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://x402.apidirect.io/v1/reddit/user?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.004/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-30
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/api-direct-reddit-user-profile-lookup-1f0e4c1d
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_o6nHMZNY29MR4YuZ5WNmN

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability api-direct-reddit-user-profile-lookup-1f0e4c1d
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the Reddit profile for the user u/spez and show me their karma, account age, and bio?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need structured profile data for a specific known Reddit user and have either their username or profile URL. It is more precise than a search endpoint when you already know the identity of the user. Prefer this over Reddit post search endpoints when the goal is account-level intelligence (karma, age, bio) rather than content discovery.

## Known failure modes

- Username not found — returns 404 or empty result if the account does not exist or has been deleted
- Suspended or banned accounts may return limited or no data
- Both username and url provided simultaneously — schema requires exactly one; ambiguous input may cause error
- Username exceeds 20 characters — schema enforces maxLength:26 but Reddit usernames are 3-20 chars
- Rate limiting or upstream Reddit API unavailability returning 5xx errors
- Private or shadowbanned accounts may return partial or no profile data

## How this service works

Get a Reddit user's profile by username or profile URL.

## Output

Returns the Reddit user's public profile data including username, karma breakdown (link karma, comment karma), account creation date, bio/description, avatar image URL, verification status, and other publicly visible account metadata.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [],
     "properties": {
      "url": {
       "type": "string",
       "maxLength": 500,
       "description": "Reddit profile URL, e.g. https://www.reddit.com/user/spez (max 500 characters). Provide exactly one of username or url."
      },
      "username": {
       "type": "string",
       "maxLength": 26,
       "description": "Reddit username, with or without u/ (3-20 characters). Provide exactly one of username or url."
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/api-direct-reddit-user-profile-lookup-1f0e4c1d/health.json
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