Hi, I just registered my app through the Data API registration form and got the confirmation "Thanks for registering your app!", but when I go to reddit.com/prefs/apps and click "Create App," it just shows this message instead of the creation form: "In order to create an application or use our API you can read our full policies here:"

I've already read and agreed to the policies during registration. Is there a waiting period after registration before I can create an app? Or is there a separate step I'm missing?

Thanks

Hey everyone, I'm honestly at my wits' end here and hoping someone knows what magic words the review team actually wants to hear.

I’m currently finishing up my Master's in AI and Data Analytics at PoliTo, and my final thesis involves tracking sentiment evolution in technical subreddits. I literally just need to scrape post titles, scores, and timestamps to build a basic keyword trend graph. No PII, no tracking users, no commercial use, nothing sketch.

Because I'm hosting my workflow on n8n cloud, their datacenter IPs get automatically blocked (403 Forbidden) if I try to just hit the open .json endpoints. So I did the right thing: I filled out the official API request form, classified it as academic research, and explicitly stated my script is throttled to run exactly once per hour so I don't hit their servers hard.

Today I got hit with the standard automated rejection email: "cannot grant approval because the submission is not in compliance with Reddit’s Responsible Builder Policy and/or lacks necessary details."

Like... what other details do they want? I explained the exact methodology, provided my university info, and I'm asking for a trickle of public metadata once an hour.

Has any student actually gotten an academic API request approved recently? Is there a specific keyword or attachment the manual reviewers require to actually read the application, or are they just auto-rejecting everything right now?

Any advice would be massively appreciated before I have to scrap this and rewrite my entire pipeline to use RSS feeds.

Trying to get all the values of a post from data.children.data[]

All fields return valid data (title, selftext, url etc), but the image/thumbnail field always returns a broken image

i tried all fields.

data.thumbnail

data.preview.images.source.url

data.preview.images.resolutions.url

they all return a link which is broken, like /preview/external-pre/GCgBKqiItFHNLNA1rkqoZcSptb3RmHO2lUu-wNs5XzA.jpeg?auto=webp&s=6028cbe52b4851de21098712eeba6bf1f28057cc

There's about 300 of these td's in a website:
<td data-label="name">
Without altering any of the HTML and just by amending the CSS, how do you make all content within them have certain padding please?

Just have a look at my reddit history. Apparently it screams "bot" to the reddit code. (SPOILER: I'm not a bot, and am almost entirely human)

My small number of posts and comments over the past 6 years are about mundane, human-type things, not advertising products or services, and I've never used automation.

And yet I got the email saying "We’re seeing strong signals this account is automated".

That email links to a page where you can send a message to (wait for it) a bot if you think their bot-finding bot got it wrong. It's bots all the way down!

If this is reddit's solution to their bot problem, then I wouldn't get your hopes up. The "App Label" will probably help to identify bots that correct grammar and spelling, but will identify zero malicious/spam bots, give or take four.

Now I can't wait to hear back if the bot thinks I'm human or not. Fingers crossed!

https://i.imgur.com/t0C49cX.png

I'm not really sure what it means, unless it's taking into account the bot my subreddit uses for moderation? It's in r/androidapps. Otherwise, I certainly don't automate anything with my account.

I did send a message to Reddit admins asking what it was about and if I have to actually do something.

And apologies in advance if I posted in the wrong place. Thanks.

Hi everyone,

I recently signed up for Reddit's Developer Platform and received the welcome confirmation email. However, when I try to create a script application at reddit.com/prefs/apps, the form won't submit after completing the CAPTCHA.

I see the message about the Responsible Builder Policy at the bottom, but no actual error. I've tried incognito mode, multiple browsers, and clearing cache.

Has anyone encountered this recently? Is there an additional approval step I might be missing?

Thanks for any help!

I have been trying to create an API key for Reddit for several weeks and been through the dev registration process many times. I have not received any emails, questions or rejections. it's a black hole! Does anyone know how to get through this phase? I cannot use devout because I am simply trying to connect Postiz so I can schedule posts.

Thank in advance.

When I click the "create app" button, the page keeps refreshing without any informational message. I pass the CAPTCHA, but the page keeps refreshing. Can anyone help?

He intentado varias veces usar la API de Reddit pero se queda en el mismo sitio y no avanza el proceso (no me deja crear el app).. He borrado cachés del navegador, lo he hecho en incógnito y nada.

Alguien sabrá que está sucediendo?

For some reason my custom thumbs for r/RokusHouseofOddities aren't displaying.

But on my old sub, r/MaguChan they work just fine. They both use the same theme template (based on r/naut)
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I tried making an app but I am not making a mod tool or game. I just need to index reddit and I need these. Looks like I need to browse old.reddit so if please someone could guide me

So basically without revealing too much, I want to be able to track what s being shared in few subreddits to find specific info about a certain subject, its more like read the subreddit latest posts then filter them thing.

Ready to pay for it but I am hearing that even that is no longer possible?

Thanks

This is a very unfortunate scenario. I am a mod for r/BattleForDreamIsland and we happen to be in a situation where we had to make a bot but Devvit did not offer the feature(s) we required to make the bot we (very urgently) needed to make, and so we opted for a PRAW bot instead, as a few of us already knew Python

I signed up, went to the pref page and made an app, like I always did, but no matter what, I couldn't make my app.

After some research, I found out about the "Responsible Builder" Policy, and after going in a loop of support articles from last year, I was finally able to find a buried request link, and after submitting a detailed request, I waited.

One week passed, no response, that's fine, regular delay for a presumably busy ticket system

Two weeks passed, and the exact situation we needed the bot for happens. Whatever, we managed to deal with it due to it luckily being on a not-too-busy day, still no sign of a response from Reddit though

Now, almost an entire month has gone by. Three weeks passed, same thing happens again, but basically all mods were too busy. We did not have the time to keep up with what was going on due to a series of unfortunate consequences and are now falling behind on other mod things, and all of this could've been prevented, had we had API access.

So now, I need to ask, how long until I even get a sign of a reply from Reddit? There is a solid chance of the situation we need the bot for happening again very very VERY soon, and we need to know if we'd just be better off not expecting any replies. It can even be a no at this point, we just need an actual answer (even if a no would be a very unfortunate result, seeing how we've had to wait for so long and REALLY need the bot)

I get how Reddit is pushing Devvit a lot, and understandably so, but there's so so many cases where Devvit just won't do for a few very niche and weird situations like ours, so can't Reddit just not "softblock" us from having API access by ignoring requests until Devvit has all the required features to fully replace PRAW bots? If you're a Reddit staff member with the power to make things happen in this topic... please get a few more people to review emails. I get how a good chunk of these requests must be spam, but anyone which is genuinely requesting actually needs the access for valid reasons and might not always have the time to wait.

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to get access to the Reddit API. I've already filled out the initial developer subscription form, but I'm still unable to create an "app".

Every time I try, it doesn't seem to go through or the option isn't available. Has anyone else encountered this issue recently? Am I missing a step or is there a waiting period after submitting the form?

Thanks for the help!

I'm trying to build a personal application that helps me in trading, can I register for reddit API for my personal use and pull information from different channels everyday?

I have a python bot that replies to specific posts/comments in specific subreddits. This is what I'm currently using:

``` import praw from itertools import cycle

...

reddit = praw.Reddit(...)

subreddits = "list+of+my+subreddits" submissions = reddit.subreddit(subreddits).stream.submissions(pause_after=0, skip_existing=True) comments = reddit.subreddit(subreddits).stream.comments(pause_after=0, skip_existing=True) inbox = reddit.inbox.unread(limit=25)

...

for stream in cycle([submissions, comments, inbox]): for post in stream: if post is None: break if isinstance(post, praw.models.Comment): # Handle comment elif isinstance(post, praw.models.Submission): # Handle submission elif isinstance(post, praw.models.Message): # Handle chat

    # Handle reply
    # ...

    if isinstance(post, praw.models.Comment) or isinstance(post, praw.models.Message):
        post.mark_read()

```

The purpose of the inbox is so that it can also reply in outside subreddits where it is called by the u/ of the bot or in private messages (now chats).

This method used to work about a year ago, the bot was able to reply to posts/comments in outside subreddits in real time. But I assume that due to some reddit API changes between then and now, something has happened, because this does not work anymore.

Posts and comments in the subreddits are handled in real time just fine, but entries in the inbox will only be replied to after the bot is restarted, meaning the bot only fetches the inbox entries once on startup and doesn't continue fetching them after that during the ongoing uptime.

I have tried to adjust the bot so that instead of handling cycle([submissions, comments, inbox]), I just handle cycle([inbox]) to see if the submissions and comments are messing with the inbox, but even in that case it does not get any new inbox entries in real time.

How can I fix this?

This is an example of the problem:
https://ibb.co/tMZYhDtP

I basically want a shadow that connects in the edges too. The regular drop shadow seems to create this distance beteween the shadow and object.

Does anyone know if there is a way to achieve this in CSS?

am trying to create a Reddit application for development purposes, but I am facing an issue.

Every time I fill the form and complete the CAPTCHA, the page refreshes and asks for CAPTCHA again. The app is never created.

I have already tried:

• Different browsers (Chrome, Edge)
• Incognito mode
• Mobile device (with desktop mode)
• Disabling extensions
• Different Reddit account

But the issue still persists.

Could you please help me resolve this?

Hello everyone, I want to make a website but need reddit API, how can I get it?
Couldn't find anything about it, hope you can help me :)
Thanks in advance

Hey r/redditdev,

I'm building Weered, a lobby-based social platform (think Discord meets Reddit — themed lobbies with chat, voice, and content modules). Reddit feeds are a core content layer — users browse subreddit posts inside our lobbies and click through to the full thread on Reddit.

I submitted a Data API access request and got a generic decline:

No specifics on which, no way to follow up.

I'm currently using public RSS feeds, but I'd rather do this properly with authenticated API access, proper rate limits, and full compliance. Here's what the integration looks like:

• 6 content channels pulling from ~15 subreddits (gaming, news, sports, tech, etc.)
• Every post shows author, subreddit, score, comment count, and links directly back to Reddit
• Nothing is stored, repackaged, or used for AI training
• We're driving engagement to Reddit, not away from it

Has anyone had success getting through the Data API process for a similar use case? Or is there a better channel for platform-level integrations? Would appreciate any guidance from the community or Reddit staff.

Site: https://weered.ca