Get user profile — Reddit API

Returns public Reddit user profile information including bio, avatar, verification flags, and account creation date.

GET/v1/reddit/users/{username}1 credit per request

Example response200OK

{
  "data": {
    "type": "Person",
    "id": "https://www.reddit.com/user/spez/",
    "preferredUsername": "spez",
    "name": "Steve Huffman",
    "summary": "Reddit CEO",
    "entityId": "t2_4x25quk",
    "score": 999999,
    "postScore": 555555,
    "commentScore": 444444,
    "isEmployee": true,
    "isVerified": true,
    "published": "2005-12-08T07:46:43.000Z"
  }
}

Make the request.

One authenticated GET to /v1/reddit/users/{username}. Authentication and error conventions stay consistent across endpoints. This page shows the path, parameters, response shape, limits, and credit rule for this operation.

Built for

Community member research and karma verification
Account age and activity analysis for trust scoring
Moderator and contributor profiling

Full reference for this endpoint

const response = await fetch("https://api.konbiniapi.com/v1/reddit/users/spez", {
  headers: { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" }
});

const data = await response.json();

Parameters1

usernamerequiredIn · PathType · stringReddit username (with or without `u/` prefix)

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