Explore Feed V2

Fetch Reddit's Explore/Communities tab — topic groups, community recommendations, and discovery content.

GET /api/v2/feed/explore

Fetch Reddit's Explore/Communities tab — topic groups, community recommendations, and discovery content.

Query parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`sort`	string	No	Sort order: hot, new, top, rising, best, controversial (default: hot)
`time_filter`	string	No	Time filter for top/controversial: hour, day, week, month, year, all
`limit`	string	No	Max posts to return, auto-paginates (1-500, default: 100)

Authentication

Header	Value
`X-RapidAPI-Key`	Your RapidAPI key
`X-RapidAPI-Host`	`red-crawler1.p.rapidapi.com`

Example request

cURL

curl -X GET "https://red-crawler1.p.rapidapi.com/api/v2/feed/explore?sort=hot&time_filter=<time_filter>&limit=25" \
  -H "X-RapidAPI-Key: YOUR_RAPIDAPI_KEY" \
  -H "X-RapidAPI-Host: red-crawler1.p.rapidapi.com"

JavaScript

const res = await fetch("https://red-crawler1.p.rapidapi.com/api/v2/feed/explore?sort=hot&time_filter=<time_filter>&limit=25", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
      "X-RapidAPI-Key": "YOUR_RAPIDAPI_KEY",
    "X-RapidAPI-Host": "red-crawler1.p.rapidapi.com"
    }
});
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);

Python

import requests

url = "https://red-crawler1.p.rapidapi.com/api/v2/feed/explore?sort=hot&time_filter=<time_filter>&limit=25"
headers = {
    "X-RapidAPI-Key": "YOUR_RAPIDAPI_KEY",
    "X-RapidAPI-Host": "red-crawler1.p.rapidapi.com"
}
resp = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
print(resp.json())

Example response

HTTP 200 — captured from a live call to the gateway.

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "success": true,
    "items": [
      {
        "node": {
          "id": "parent_topics",
          "title": null,
          "schemeName": "communities_tab_taxonomy_parent_topics_default",
          "displayStyle": "DEFAULT",
          "topics": [
            {
              "id": "tx1_2unn29s",
              "displayName": "Internet Culture"
            },
            {
              "id": "tx1_2q2no54",
              "displayName": "Games"
            },
            "\u2026 (23 more items)"
          ]
        }
      },
      {
        "node": {
          "id": "community_recommendation_v3:fx_generalized_recs_recommendations_dDVfMnFoMzN0NV8yc3QybHQ1XzJ1MmJodDVfMnNhM210NV8ycW05eHQ1XzM4amYwdDVfMzd4bzJ0NV8zcHplenQ1XzJxanBndDVfM3oxbTA2dDVfMTJwNGwydDVfM2g1Y3Vz",
          "model": "fx_generalized_recs",
          "title": "Recommended for you",
          "version": "v1fl",
          "destination": {
            "reason": "destination_type_null"
          },
          "communityRecommendations": [
            {
              "recommendationSource": null,
              "subreddit": {
                "name": "funny",
                "id": "t5_examples",
                "prefixedName": "r/funny",
                "publicDescriptionText": "Reddit's largest humor depository",
                "title": "funny",
                "subscribersCount": 67256218.0,
                "isSubscribed": false,
                "communityStats": {
                  "weeklyActiveUsersCount": "\u2026",
                  "weeklyContributionsCount": "\u2026"
                },
                "styles": {
                  "icon": "\u2026",
                  "primaryColor": "\u2026",
                  "legacyIcon": "\u2026",
                  "legacyPrimaryColor": "\u2026"
                },
                "taxonomy": {
                  "generatedDescription": "\u2026"
                }
              }
            },
            {
              "recommendationSource": null,
              "subreddit": {
                "name": "FunnyAnimals",
                "id": "t5_examples",
                "prefixedName": "r/FunnyAnimals",
                "publicDescriptionText": "Welcome to the subreddit for our funny animal friends!",
                "title": "A place where we can laugh at our non-human friends.",
                "subscribersCount": 8582843.0,
                "isSubscribed": false,
                "communityStats": {
                  "weeklyActiveUsersCount": "\u2026",
                  "weeklyContributionsCount": "\u2026"
                },
                "styles": {
                  "icon": "\u2026",
                  "primaryColor": "\u2026",
                  "legacyIcon": "\u2026",
                  "legacyPrimaryColor": "\u2026"
                },
                "taxonomy": {
                  "generatedDescription": "\u2026"
                }
              }
            },
            "\u2026 (10 more items)"
          ]
        }
      }
    ],
    "count": 2
  },
  "error": null,
  "timestamp": "2026-04-29T09:00:07.394492+00:00"
}