# fetcher.sh Reddit Hot Posts API

> fetcher.sh Reddit Hot Posts API is a paid API for AI agents from fetcher.sh, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Fetches the current hot/trending posts from Reddit, paid per call in USDC via x402

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://fetcher.sh/api/reddit/posts/hot
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/fetcher-sh-reddit-hot-posts-api-534bfc68
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_hA3fXJoHAUoMCiJW6rygr

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 fetcher-sh-reddit-hot-posts-api-534bfc68
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the current hot posts from the r/technology subreddit on Reddit so I can see what's trending there right now?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time hot/trending Reddit posts without managing Reddit OAuth credentials, API keys, or rate limits yourself. Ideal for AI agents that need pay-per-call access with no subscription setup, especially when building trend monitors, content digest bots, or social listening pipelines that need Reddit data on demand.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or private subreddit returns empty results or 404
- Reddit rate limiting may cause upstream errors
- Subreddit that has been banned or quarantined returns no data
- Insufficient USDC balance or failed x402 payment results in 402 Payment Required
- Malformed query parameters return 400 Bad Request

## How this service works

fetcher.sh is an x402 web-data and scraping API: 111 endpoints for Twitter/X, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, Google, App Store, and Yelp — paid per call in USDC on Base, Polygon, Arbitrum, Monad or Solana, or with prepaid credits. Built for AI agents: no accounts, no OAuth, no subscriptions.

## Output

Returns a list of currently hot Reddit posts including titles, scores (upvotes), URLs, authors, comment counts, and subreddit metadata — structured data ready for an agent to read, rank, or summarize.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/fetcher-sh-reddit-hot-posts-api-534bfc68/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from fetcher.sh](https://www.zero.xyz/host/fetcher.sh/llms.txt)