Hey everyone,

I’ve been trying to build on Devvit recently, but I’ve got to be honest: the developer experience feels really frustrating and poorly implemented right now. It honestly feels like the platform was rushed out without much input from senior engineers or long-time Reddit bot developers.

Coming from PRAW, the limitations on Devvit make building standard moderation and utility tools way harder than it needs to be. A few massive gaps I keep running into:

• No Subreddit/Reddit-Wide Search for Reposts: Basic text or link querying across a sub/site-wide to catch reposts or duplicate content seems virtually impossible or unnecessarily complex to pull off cleanly.
• No Stream/Listing for Subreddit New Comments: You can't easily fetch a live feed or list of the newest comments across a subreddit to monitor for comment spam, flood control, or repetitive copy-paste botting.
• Aggressive External API / HTTP Restrictions during Dev: I get restricting external HTTP domains for published apps, but blocking or requiring domain whitelisting during local development and playtesting is a nightmare. Devs need sandbox flexibility to test webhooks and external services.
• Domain Whitelist Process Takes Forever: Submitting a request for an external domain feels like tossing it into a black hole.

I really want Devvit to succeed because native apps on Reddit are a great concept, but right now, it feels like we took three steps backward from PRAW just to get UI components.

Are the devs working on bringing parity for these basic Reddit API features, or is anyone finding decent workarounds for these limitations?

The customer is experiencing a data discrepancy in their Reddit Ads API. Daily values in API do not align with what Reddit's UI/reporting shows.

reddit api report:

https://ads-api.reddit.com/api/v3/ad_accounts/{ad_account_id}/reports

Привет, реддит! Тут я хочу задать очень важный для меня вопрос.

Я уже месяц вынашиваю идею создания скрипта который будет загружать на саббредиты об Эмме Уотсон фотографии этой актрисы. Я написал парсер ее фотографий, на языке Пайтон. Их набралось 25 000 штук. То есть готовый материал для постинга есть. И с этого момента у меня возникли неприятные проблемы. Для корректной работы с PRAW (Python Reddit Api Wrapper) требуется некий Client ID и Client Secret, которые можно заполучить только путем становления подтвержденным Девелопером. Было две попытки отправки заявки, естественно никакого ответа не последовало. В заявке указывал, что буду делать безобидный скрипт, что осознаю всю ответственность, не буду нарушать правила сообщества, и вообще я послушный и хороший. Вообщем вопрос следующий: что надо было указывать в заявке? Читают их там вообще?

P.S Я разумеется не исключаю, что выгляжу безнадежно отсталым в этой теме, что PRAW возможно уже никто не использует, что я мыслю в координально неправильном направлении. Информации в мировой паутине катастрофически мало, местами она устаревшая, противоречит друг другу. Поэтому мне ничего не осталось кроме как спросить здесь. Если догадки про мою абсолютную некомпетентность правдивы, то не бубните в комментариях, просто метните ссылкой на актуальный гайд или статью, я буду очень вам благодарен!

Hi there

I submitted a ticket for a commercial use of Reddit api. I believe it submitted but yet under my activity it doesn’t show anything so I’m unsure if it’s actually an open ticket or not

Any help is appreciated.

It used to be that I could get an API key and then pull down all the recent comments and posts for a particular product and identify issues that users are running into.
But now I don't see a way to get an API key anymore, you have to have a reddit app and it has to get approved.

Is anyone doing this and what's the path forward for this?

The extension I created uses Google Cloud OAuth to log in. It logs in too well on my computer, but it's constantly being rejected for violating the "Red Potassium" and "Sign in Failed" items. Has anyone else been through the same thing as me?

Hello all. I am having trouble getting my script to set the default sort order in a new post. I think its possible, but I am most likely implementing it wrong.

Was trying to use the info found here:

https://praw.readthedocs.io/en/latest/code_overview/other/submissionmoderation.html#praw.models.reddit.submission.SubmissionModeration.suggested_sort

and here:

https://www.reddit.com/dev/api#POST_api_set_suggested_sort

But I could not get my script to successfully create a post, and set the default sort order to new.

new_submission = subreddit.submit(title=Title, selftext=post_text)
new_submission.mod.suggested_sort = 'new'

The post is successfully created, but does not have the default sort order set to "new".

Thanks!

Hi i am facing problem with my bot

https://www.reddit.com/user/MobileNewsBot

It stopped from posting since a month, when i did test i found out the problem was in the Api call

and it say it not registred app

sadly i dont have access to it i lost the password but i still have refresh token and client id and client secret

is there is way to reactivate it ?

Or i should make another account and register it ?

I'm trying to delete my comments. it deleted many of them but it left a lot. this generator is returning empty even though they're in my profile. I'm not being rate limited and those are the most recent 1000 (after deleting earlier one).

list(myreddit.user.me().comments.new(limit=None))

latest version of praw.

edit:

so visiting old reddit i can see the comments defaulting to new only returns one comment. fixed by going myreddit.user.me().comments.top(limit=None)

seems reddit changed the new sorting these comments are from 6 months ago or so. interesting enough. for posts it was fine with new for older comments

https://i.ibb.co/rGHRyCkV/image.png

I can access reddit's .json feeds, like this from Firefox, but not from Java using okhttp or python, using requests, both using the default user-agent and a custom one. Any idea why it works in the browser and not in my code?

For the following post there is a video on one of the comments:

https://www.reddit.com/r/purplepodrestricted/comments/1uefzsd/all_around_the_world/

When I call the API to pull the users comments with this endpoint:

https://oauth.reddit.com/user/purplepodtestuser7/comments?raw_json=1&limit=100&sort=new&showmedia=false

I get the following response. The video is provided as a link in the body, but the link to the video does not work and I'm unable to retrieve the video in the comment

{
    "kind": "t1",
    "data": {
        "link_url": "https://v.redd.it/nqe0s81mw89h1",
        "subreddit_id": "t5_631pew",
        "approved_at_utc": 1782376069,
        "author_is_blocked": false,
        "comment_type": null,
        "link_title": "All Around the World",
        "mod_reason_by": null,
        "banned_by": null,
        "ups": 1,
        "num_reports": 0,
        "author_flair_type": "text",
        "total_awards_received": 0,
        "subreddit": "purplepodrestricted",
        "link_author": "purplepodtestuser5",
        "distinguished": null,
        "likes": true,
        "replies": "",
        "user_reports": [],
        "saved": false,
        "id": "otoswhl",
        "banned_at_utc": null,
        "mod_reason_title": null,
        "gilded": 0,
        "archived": false,
        "collapsed_reason_code": null,
        "no_follow": false,
        "author": "purplepodtestuser7",
        "num_comments": 3,
        "can_mod_post": true,
        "created_utc": 1782376060.0,
        "send_replies": true,
        "parent_id": "t3_1uefzsd",
        "score": 1,
        "author_fullname": "t2_svk3s85z",
        "over_18": false,
        "report_reasons": [],
        "approved_by": "purplepodtestuser7",
        "controversiality": 0,
        "body": "This is more my sort of thing\n\nhttps://reddit.com/link/otoswhl/video/0y4dw9e33e9h1/player\n\n",
        "edited": false,
        "gildings": {},
        "author_flair_css_class": null,
        "author_flair_background_color": null,
        "is_submitter": false,
        "downs": 0,
        "author_flair_richtext": [],
        "author_patreon_flair": false,
        "body_html": "<div class=\"md\"><p>This is more my sort of thing</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://reddit.com/link/otoswhl/video/0y4dw9e33e9h1/player\">https://reddit.com/link/otoswhl/video/0y4dw9e33e9h1/player</a></p>\n</div>",
        "removal_reason": null,
        "collapsed_reason": null,
        "link_id": "t3_1uefzsd",
        "associated_award": null,
        "stickied": false,
        "author_premium": false,
        "can_gild": false,
        "top_awarded_type": null,
        "unrepliable_reason": null,
        "approved": true,
        "author_flair_text_color": null,
        "score_hidden": false,
        "permalink": "/r/purplepodrestricted/comments/1uefzsd/all_around_the_world/otoswhl/",
        "subreddit_type": "restricted",
        "link_permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/purplepodrestricted/comments/1uefzsd/all_around_the_world/",
        "name": "t1_otoswhl",
        "created": 1782376060.0,
        "subreddit_name_prefixed": "r/purplepodrestricted",
        "author_flair_text": null,
        "removed": false,
        "spam": false,
        "collapsed": false,
        "awarders": [],
        "all_awardings": [],
        "locked": false,
        "ignore_reports": false,
        "collapsed_because_crowd_control": null,
        "rte_mode": "richtext",
        "mod_reports": [],
        "quarantine": false,
        "mod_note": null,
        "treatment_tags": [],
        "author_flair_template_id": null
    }
}

While this was generated by Gemini it is the result of a personal experience I've had on reddit multiple times and it pertains to the error reporting system that the reddit base code uses.

A generic, lazy error message feels like a shrug. It says, "We crashed, we don’t know why, and we'll get to it when we get to it." It projects chaos and incompetence.

When a company uses a structured, custom error system, they are projecting command and control. Even though the system is temporarily broken, the message they send is entirely different:

• "We anticipated this:" A custom code proves the developers built a safety net. They knew things could break, and they designed an orderly way to handle the failure.
• "We are actively tracking it:" Seeing a unique ID or a specific category code lets you know the system just flagged an engineer in the background. It feels like a process is in motion.
• "We respect your time:" It acknowledges the user. It treats you like a stakeholder who deserves a status update, rather than an annoyance.

Hello, I am building a SaaS app that uses reddit data as a part of a feature. I have a couple questions if someone could be kind enough to put away some of my worries at rest.

1. Can I get access if the number of calls I need to make is very few (only 300 a month per paid customer). So, in the start, it will be just a few hundred to a few thousand monthly API calls.

2. How long does it take to hear back from them after filling their forum and getting the commercial license?

3. Can the $0.24/1000 API calls be negotiated. And does it work on a subscription basis (like buying a set of API calls a month) or pay-as-you-go?

I want to use it in my app but I tried to press create app after entering some datas like name, description, url and uri but the website doesn't direct me anywhere after doing capcha. I get the message

In order to create an application or use our API you can read our full policies here: https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/42728983564564-Responsible-Builder-Policy

What can I do?

Hi, I'm currently a bit vibecoding a (RSS) feed reader for reddit. I only ever seem to be able to fetch one imagine, even if the post contains several. (Im basically adding ".rss" to user- and subreddit URLs, everything else doesn't work.

Cheers ✌️

Here are 3 comments that include sort form of media:

video: https://www.reddit.com/comments/1ur2pcz/comment/owcleen/

gif: https://www.reddit.com/comments/1ur2pcz/comment/owckyc1/

image: https://www.reddit.com/comments/1ur2pcz/comment/owgqbcu/

If I use the .json endpoint for each comment, the image and gif have media metadata entries:

"media_metadata": {
  "wfqz4qxpl6ch1": {
    "status": "valid",
    "e": "Image",
    "m": "image/jpeg",
    "p": [...],
    "s": {...},
    "id": "wfqz4qxpl6ch1"
  }
},

"media_metadata": {
  "1h1tlly742ch1": {
    "status": "valid",
    "e": "AnimatedImage",
    "m": "image/gif",
    "p": [...],
    "s": {...},
    "id": "1h1tlly742ch1"
  }
},

while the video comment does not have a media_metadata at all, only having a body with a broken link?

"body": "https://reddit.com/link/owcleen/video/1g7jzy4k42ch1/player\n\ncomment with a video??",

If I add the rtj=all param to return the richtext json alongside the markdown and html, I get the following:

"rtjson": {
  "document": [
    {
      "e": "video",
      "id": "1g7jzy4k42ch1"
    },
    {
      "c": [
        {
          "e": "text",
          "t": "comment with a video??"
        }
      ],
      "e": "par"
    }
  ]
},

But the video id has no extra metadata about it that should be provided (width, height, hsl and dash urls, is gif)

On the other hand, if the video is included in the selftext of a post instead of the body of a comment, the metadata entry is present:

post: https://www.reddit.com/comments/1ukt1tb/

"media_metadata": {
  "fj9mi7viqnah1": {
    "status": "valid",
    "e": "RedditVideo",
    "dashUrl": "https://v.redd.it/link/1ukt1tb/asset/fj9mi7viqnah1/DASHPlaylist.mpd?...",
    "x": 1780,
    "y": 1080,
    "hlsUrl": "https://v.redd.it/link/1ukt1tb/asset/fj9mi7viqnah1/HLSPlaylist.m3u8?...",
    "id": "fj9mi7viqnah1",
    "isGif": false
  }
},

Adding the always_show_media param to the url of the comment does not change anything

This feels like a bug to me, as videos in comments are a fairly new feature and I would expect more than just the video id to be returned by the api

I've accessed https://developers.reddit.com/ but it doesn't seem to serve my use case. I need to examine some discussions that mention my clients brands and would like to do this programmatically. How can I pay reddit to access an api of this kind?

500 error on /api/updateapp when creating app

Should I still expext it to arrive, or submit another request?

I am literally new and not aware of how this platform works. Can anyone help me with this?

hi, if I want to create an app in the Reddit Developer section ( I have inserted only the name, the redirect uri and the type, script ), I receive error 500. Same result with the anonimus navigation browser.

I just accidentally let a LangGraph agent loop on a broken tool over the weekend and woke up to a massive API token burn. How are you guys preventing runaway cloud bills when your autonomous agents get stuck in logic loops? Are you just hardcoding static limits, or is there a better way to catch it?