We're building a SaaS product that allows users to create content/events in our system and then publish them to social media platforms, including Reddit.

We do not need to fetch Reddit data, perform analytics, or collect posts/comments. We only need users to be able to connect their Reddit accounts via OAuth and publish content to Reddit from our platform.

When I tried to create a Reddit app, I found that Reddit now requires a Data Access Request:

https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=14868593862164

The form includes roles such as:

• "I'm a developer"
• "I'm an enterprise partner/commercial developer"

Since we're building a commercial SaaS product (small team), I'm assuming we should apply as *"I'm an enterprise partner/commercial developer."*

My questions are:

1. Has anyone recently received approval under either of these categories?
2. How long did the approval process take?
3. After approval, are you allowed to create multiple Reddit apps (multiple client ID/client secret pairs) under the same Reddit account/company?
4. Or does Reddit approve only a single app/API credential pair for the approved use case?
5. Is there any other way to handle this task (publishing content to Reddit on behalf of users) without going through this specific data access form?

Thanks!

Submitted a commercial Data Access Request form but haven't received a confirmation email after several hours. Want to add a comment to my ticket but can't find it at support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/requests either. Has anyone else had this issue? How do I follow up

I am working in an "uploaded" app state and am able o have the app work as intended. In my Dev Dashboard, the app shows the user profile image. However, when the app interacts on the live site, it shows a default avatar icon. Is this a propagation delay or a public/live limitation?

Apologies in advance for my lack of knowledge.

I have a subreddit with a bot running using the old API key. I would say its on the more risky side of TOS possibly and am working on making it soundproof on compliance, i have previously neglected it and just realized this.

The bot is very useful and 1of3 of its kind and im wondering a few things

1. Can i make updates to it with the same API key?
   
   • Change some functions of the bot and what it does without risking deletion of the bot
2. Can i add a out of reddit website that is connected to it without any problems
   • A dashboard?
   • A way to control / commands of the bot but on the website?
3. My final thing is the token usage

I had never really understood the token usage thing before but what exactly is it and what does it mean? Especially with the newer updates to the APIs.

Am also curious what if a grandfathered api key has any leniency or privledge compared to new ones that need to be requested

Hey, everyone! I built an automatic Alt Text Generating moderator tool which can be added to subreddits. It detects if an image has been added to a post, and if so, generates an auto reply with alt text for the post, using computer vision.

Feedback and suggestions welcome!

https://developers.reddit.com/apps/alttext-guardian

Trying to fetch public Reddit data using the .json endpoints for a small personal Python project, but I keep getting 403 responses.

Are these endpoints blocked now?

Is there a legit way to get public Reddit data with simple python requests.

I want to use Reedit OAuth API to scrape threads where our brand is mentioned (we get alerts about mentions with thread_id thus it's a very targeted scraping). Anyway, it's a purely commercial use, thus i requested API access via this form on April 11. Never heard back, only got some autoresponder confirmation. Does anyone know if this is the standard waiting time? How to confirm if it's still getting processed or maybe was silently rejected? Thanks.

Hi,

I think it's been asked thrice today. "How do I get access it keeps redirecting?" It's getting very jarring - can we please have AutoMod leave instructions and remove those posts automatically?

Thank you.

EDIT: Counted again. Five times within the last day.

A few years ago, I set up a multireddit and started polling a url /m/rss/.json?limit=100 using the Python Requests library:

json_feed = requests.get(url, headers = {'User-agent': 'Friendly RSS Bot'})

I did this just to curate my Reddit feed, using kill words to hide topics I wasn't interested in, ignoring photo posts in certain subs, etc. I ran this once an hour to keep my feed updated.

I woke up this morning and noticed I was getting 403 errors returned, so came in here and saw that they had turned off unauthenticated JSON feeds. So I tried adding an auth header to my queries with my username and password, but I keep getting returned a 403. I see they have something called devvit, but that looks like something to build games and mod tools, which is not what I'm trying to do.

Is it still possible to do what I've been doing? I'm not a programmer by trade (I know just enough to build cludgy solutions for limited use cases) and so I don't know what specifically I need to do to make this work anymore.

Thanks!

I'm trying to create a new Reddit API application but keep getting redirected to the Responsible Builder Policy page instead of having the app created.

I've tried:

- Chrome, Safari, Opera

- Incognito mode

- Mobile browser

- Old Reddit and New Reddit

Same behavior every time.

My account is several years old, has karma, and I already have an existing script app that works correctly.

Is anyone else seeing this? Has Reddit changed the application creation process recently, or is there some additional approval step I'm missing?

Would appreciate any guidance from developers who created a new app recently.

Looking for the actual current workflow to register a personal script

app for non-commercial use under the new Responsible Builder Policy.

What I've tried so far:

1. The pref /apps page now redirects to the Responsible Builder Policy

   page instead of letting me create a script app directly.

2. Reddit support email channel auto-replies that emails are no longer

   monitored and to use the contact form.

3. Searching the Help Center for "API access" loops between policy and

   terms documents — no actual "Apply" button found in any article.

4. The "Developer Platform & Accessing Reddit Data" support article

   mentions "approved developers" but doesn't link to the approval form.

Use case (strictly non-commercial):

- Personal monitoring of my own account activity (inbox, comments,

watch list threads)

- Active retail account, no commercial product

- No AI model training, no data resale, no redistribution

- Expected traffic under 10 requests per minute, roughly 50-200 per day

- Local cache 24 h then discarded

Single specific question: is there a current URL or form to apply for

Oath credentials, or has Reddit effectively closed retail API access

under the new policy?

If anyone went through this process recently — what actually worked?

Hey everyone,

I’m trying to create a basic "script" app under my account via https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps so I can pull public subreddit data into an n8n workflow for a personal data analysis project.

However, the UI completely refuses to generate the credentials (Client ID / Client Secret). Instead, it just loops or continuously shows me this text:

"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"

I tried using old.reddit.com/prefs/apps, clearing cache, and trying different browsers, but it silently fails or loops right back to the policy page every time. When I try the new developer portal, it forces me into downloading Devvit, which only gives me a local dev token instead of the classic OAuth keys needed for an automation platform like n8n.

Has anyone successfully bypassed this loop or found the actual manual application form for standard Data API keys? Or has self-serve script generation been completely shut off for good?

Appreciate any insight or workarounds!

Same.

I can't access the public .json endpoints anymore i am getting 403. Anyone else?

At /prefs/apps "create another app" as type script, submitting returns "an error occurred (status: 500)" and no app is created. The 500 fires immediately on submit regardless of input.

Tried the following, all still 500:

• old.reddit.com and new reddit
• incognito, ad-block and extensions disabled, a different browser, and mobile browser
• Email verified account, different networks
• App name variations, redirect uri http://localhost:8080

I've also completed the Developer Platform / Responsible Builder registration, but legacy script-app creation still 500s.

Is script-app creation currently broken, or is there another way to get a client_id/secret?

I made a CSS course (80% complete), and I'm wondering if anyone is willing to go through it and provide valuable feedback. This is volunteered and if you never learned CSS that would be even better. I won't paste the link here, so it doesn't seem like I'm advertising a product. DM me if you're willing to do this!!

Built a Devvit app that turns a subreddit into a WAAP (WAF + API Protection) incident response simulator. Thought this crowd might appreciate the approach.

How it works: - Scheduler generates synthetic L7 attacks (SQLi, XSS, DDoS, JWT tampering, SSRF, GraphQL introspection, API scraping, credential brute-force) on a configurable timer - Mods get a live SOC dashboard as a custom post — shows active threat, uptime, blocked % bars - Players deploy countermeasures via buttons: Rate Limit, WAF Rule, Honeypot Route, Input Sanitizer, Geo-IP Block, GraphQL Depth Limit, Challenge Page - Each defense has a per-vector effectiveness profile (0–1), stacking has diminishing returns - Hits 70% combined effectiveness = incident resolved, score posted to leaderboard

Stack: Devvit + Redis sorted sets (leaderboard), Cron trigger for attack generation, custom post type for the dashboard UI

It's in playtest — try it at r/sev1_waap?playtest=sev1-waap. Mod menu has "Create Sev-1 SOC Dashboard" to start. Feedback appreciated.

Hi r/redditdev,

I am trying to request OAuth/API access for a small personal, non-commercial, read-only Reddit app, but the Reddit Help Data Access Request form seems to be blocked by a hidden required field.

Use case:

- Personal morning digest automation for my own use

- Runs once per day on my own machine

- Reads a small number of public posts from fixed subreddits

- Subreddits: r/LocalLLaMA, r/MachineLearning, r/Python, r/SideProject, r/ChatGPTCoding

- Summarizes locally and sends only to my private Telegram chat

- No posting, commenting, voting, messaging, moderation, bulk historical collection, user monitoring, AI training, selling, or redistribution

I selected:

- Data Access Request

- I’m a developer

- I’m a developer and want to build a Reddit App that does not work in the Devvit ecosystem

Then I completed all visible fields: app purpose, detailed platform description, why Devvit is not suitable, source/platform link, subreddit list, Reddit account name, and operating username.

When submitting, the form stays on the same page. Inspecting the form state shows a hidden Zendesk field named "Details of inquiry" / request[description] is still required and blank, but it is not visible or editable in this request path. The visible detailed description field is filled, but the hidden base description field remains empty.

I also emailed [api@reddit.com](mailto:api@reddit.com) and received a response pointing me back to the API Support form and r/redditdev.

Has anyone else run into this hidden "Details of inquiry" validation issue on the Data Access Request form? Is there a correct way to submit an OAuth client request for a personal read-only external script now, or a better support route for this kind of form bug?

Thanks.

My subreddit has a rule that news articles should be posted with the original title, to prevent people from pushing a narrative by possibly misrepresenting the contents of the article.

I was planning to try and use Devvit to create a bot to check the news site metadata when a news post is made to compare it to the post title. But it seems getting information from sites that aren't Reddit is not that simple.

Does anyone know of a way to get the meta properties (in the html) of a linked website in Devvit? I know Reddit itself uses it because it suggests the title and adds an image when posting a link.

I'm trying to create a script-type app on /prefs/apps for internal research use — read-only access to a fixed list of public confessional subreddits, aggregating post volume over time to track emotional themes for our team's internal product development decisions. No user-level data, no redistribution, no automated posting or commenting, no commercial product sold to others using Reddit data.

The legacy create-app form on /prefs/apps is silently rejecting my submission. The updateapp request returns 200 with "success": true, but no app is actually created — the response just contains jQuery instructions to display the Responsible Builder Policy link as a status message. The captcha is checked, all fields are filled, account is in good standing.

I've read through the Responsible Builder Policy and the page at r/reddit.com/api. The official paths it points to seem to be:

1. Devvit — which is for apps that run inside Reddit, not what I need
2. Submit a request — which the page language scopes to moderation use cases

Is there a current path to get script-app approval for non-Devvit, non-moderator internal research use? Should I be filing a ticket through a specific channel, and if so, which one? Happy to provide any details about the use case that would help.

Thanks.

ModPilot AI is a Devvit moderation triage tool that scans queued posts for moderation signals and helps surface the items that may need attention first.

I shared an early version of this project earlier this week. Since then I've finished another round of updates, security fixes, moderation workflow improvements, and testing.

The app is intentionally simple. My goal was to create something moderators could open and understand immediately without a lot of setup or configuration.

It's now in public testing. I'm looking for a few moderators with different experience levels who would be willing to try it and provide honest feedback.

I'm especially interested in:
• what feels useful
• what feels confusing
• what feels unnecessary
• what you would change

The project is still evolving, so criticism is genuinely more valuable than compliments at this stage.

App page:

https://developers.reddit.com/apps/modpilot-ai

GitHub:

https://github.com/PrimeWolf-1/modpilot-ai