Content: user
API: http://www.reddit.com/user/USERNAME/ where USERNAME is the username of the account in question. Format extensions such as .json or .xml can be appended to specify a template for the data.
| path | description |
|---|---|
/ |
Returns a Listing of comments and links by the user. Returns the same result as /overview/ or selecting the Overview tab. |
/overview/ |
Returns comments and links submitted by the user. Returns the same result as /. |
/comments/ |
Returns comments by the user. |
/submitted/ |
Returns links submitted by the user. |
/liked/ |
Returns links liked by the user. Does not include comments liked by the user. Requires the reddit_session cookie of the logged in user. |
/disliked/ |
Returns links disliked by the user. Does not include comments disliked by the user. Requires the reddit_session cookie of the logged in user. |
/hidden/ |
Returns links hidden by the user. Does not include comments hidden by the user. Requires the reddit_session cookie of that particular user. |
/about/ |
Returns information about the user such as when it the account was created and how much karma the user has. Cannot be accessed without a format extension. |
Only /, /overview/, /comments/, /submitted/, and /about/ can be used without cookies.
To use these paths, submit a GET request to the url and substitute USERNAME with the account name. We will use null as the account name in the following examples:
GET http://www.reddit.com/user/null/ returns the HTML formatted overview of null's links and comments.
GET http://www.reddit.com/user/null/about/.json returns a JSON thing of type Listing whose children will be either a JSON thing of type t1 or t3.
Submit a GET to /liked/, /disliked/, or /hidden/ with reddit_session set in the cookie request properties.
GET http://www.reddit.com/user/null/liked/ with request property Cookie: reddit_session=f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0;.
If the user is not logged in or the cookie does not belong to the user being looked up, accessing pages that require a cookie will return a HTTP 404 File Not Found status code.
The formatted JSON result would be:
{"error": 404}