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Reddit - who does this OAuth app speak as? API
Exchanges a Reddit OAuth2 refresh token and reads the account it belongs to over Reddit's documented API: username, suspension state, verified email, karma, account age and the token's scopes. Reads only -- it creates nothing. The access token and the supplied secrets are never returned or logged.
How to call it
Send one POST to api.upapi.io/reddit-oauth-me.get with your key in the X-Api-Key header and the parameters below as a JSON body. Each call spends 4 weighted units of your monthly quota. The operation times out after 60 seconds. Responses are not cached; every call runs the operation.
POST https://api.upapi.io/reddit-oauth-me.get
Reddit - who does this OAuth app speak as? API reference
Request parameters
- clientId
- stringrequired — Reddit app client id
- proxyUrl
- string — Optional exit IP. Omit for the worker's default egress -- the OAuth lane has no per-account IP requirement of its own.
- userAgent
- stringrequired — The User-Agent this request is made with, sent verbatim. REQUIRED and never defaulted: Reddit's API rules ask for a descriptive UA that names the app and its contact, and a shared default would put every caller of this worker behind one identity.
- clientSecret
- stringrequired — Reddit app client secret. Never logged.
- refreshToken
- stringrequired — OAuth2 refresh token for the account. Never logged, never returned.
- expectedUsername
- string — When given, the call FAILS unless Reddit reports this exact username. Use it whenever the credentials were looked up by account, so a mis-filed token is a loud refusal rather than a silent identity swap.
Response fields
- id
- stringrequired — Reddit's own account id (the t2 id, without the prefix)
- name
- stringrequired — The Reddit username these credentials speak as
- scopes
- arrayrequired — The OAuth scopes this token carries, sorted. A caller planning to comment should see 'submit' here; its absence is why an otherwise-valid token will be refused at the write.
- created
- numberrequired — Account creation time, epoch seconds UTC
- elapsedMs
- integerrequired
- fetchedAt
- stringrequired
- linkKarma
- integerrequired
- isSuspended
- booleanrequired
- commentKarma
- integerrequired
- hasVerifiedEmail
- booleanrequired
- tokenExpiresInSec
- integerrequired — Lifetime Reddit gave the access token that was minted for this call. Reported so a caller can reason about how long a token is good for; the token itself is never returned.
Example request and response
The example response is generated from this operation’s published output schema — it shows the shape and field names, not values from a recorded call.
{
"clientId": "example",
"userAgent": "example",
"clientSecret": "example",
"refreshToken": "example"
}{
"id": "example",
"name": "example",
"scopes": [
"example"
],
"created": 1,
"elapsedMs": 1,
"fetchedAt": "example",
"linkKarma": 1,
"isSuspended": false,
"commentKarma": 1,
"hasVerifiedEmail": false,
"tokenExpiresInSec": 1
}Code snippets
cURL
curl -X POST https://api.upapi.io/reddit-oauth-me.get \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
-d '{ "clientId": "example", "userAgent": "example", "clientSecret": "example", "refreshToken": "example" }'JavaScript
const response = await fetch('https://api.upapi.io/reddit-oauth-me.get', {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
},
body: JSON.stringify({
"clientId": "example",
"userAgent": "example",
"clientSecret": "example",
"refreshToken": "example"
}),
});
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);Python
import requests
response = requests.post(
'https://api.upapi.io/reddit-oauth-me.get',
headers={
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
},
json={
"clientId": "example",
"userAgent": "example",
"clientSecret": "example",
"refreshToken": "example"
},
)
print(response.json())Go
package main
import (
"bytes"
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"io"
"net/http"
)
func main() {
payload := []byte(`{ "clientId": "example", "userAgent": "example", "clientSecret": "example", "refreshToken": "example" }`)
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://api.upapi.io/reddit-oauth-me.get", bytes.NewBuffer(payload))
req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
client := &http.Client{}
resp, err := client.Do(req)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
defer resp.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
var result map[string]any
json.Unmarshal(body, &result)
fmt.Println(result)
}PHP
<?php
$payload = json_encode([
'clientId' => 'example',
'userAgent' => 'example',
'clientSecret' => 'example',
'refreshToken' => 'example',
]);
$ch = curl_init('https://api.upapi.io/reddit-oauth-me.get');
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
CURLOPT_POST => true,
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $payload,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
'Content-Type: application/json',
'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY',
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$data = json_decode($response, true);
var_dump($data);Ruby
require 'net/http'
require 'uri'
require 'json'
uri = URI('https://api.upapi.io/reddit-oauth-me.get')
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = uri.scheme == 'https'
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.path)
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
request['x-api-key'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
request.body = { "clientId": "example", "userAgent": "example", "clientSecret": "example", "refreshToken": "example" }.to_json
response = http.request(request)
puts JSON.parse(response.body)Java
import okhttp3.*;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import java.util.Map;
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
String json = "{ \"clientId\": \"example\", \"userAgent\": \"example\", \"clientSecret\": \"example\", \"refreshToken\": \"example\" }";
RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(json, MediaType.get("application/json"));
Request request = new Request.Builder()
.url("https://api.upapi.io/reddit-oauth-me.get")
.post(body)
.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
.addHeader("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
.build();
try (Response response = client.newCall(request).execute()) {
Map<?, ?> result = mapper.readValue(response.body().string(), Map.class);
System.out.println(result);
}C#
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Net.Http.Json;
using System.Text.Json;
using var client = new HttpClient();
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY");
var payload = JsonSerializer.Deserialize<object>("{ \"clientId\": \"example\", \"userAgent\": \"example\", \"clientSecret\": \"example\", \"refreshToken\": \"example\" }");
var response = await client.PostAsJsonAsync("https://api.upapi.io/reddit-oauth-me.get", payload);
var result = await response.Content.ReadFromJsonAsync<JsonElement>();
Console.WriteLine(result);Frequently asked questions
How much does the Reddit - who does this OAuth app speak as? API cost per call?
Each call spends 4 weighted units of your plan's monthly quota. Full pricing is at https://upapi.io/pricing.
How do I authenticate to the Reddit - who does this OAuth app speak as? API?
Send your key in the X-Api-Key header. A free guest key is available without creating an account.
Are Reddit - who does this OAuth app speak as? API responses cached?
No — every call runs the operation live; responses are not cached.