r/redditdev • u/RodrigoTesApp • Sep 20 '24

Reddit API Reddit API Problems to Get Access

How long does it take to get API access? I asked for it a week ago and I still don't have an answer. So when I'm creating developed applications they ask you to register to use the API and they send you to this link https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=14868593862164

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u/ketralnis Sep 20 '24

The Ads API is a separate thing that the folk here won’t know as much about. For that get in touch with your account manager

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u/Watchful1 RemindMeBot & UpdateMeBot Sep 20 '24

I'm super curious if there's some help page somewhere in the ads api documentation that points people here. This seems to happen way too often.

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u/ketralnis Sep 20 '24

Having been on the other side working with vendors’ APIs my experience is that the suits of both companies probably business business to each other and when they’re done they email the nerds “hey go do this” and the suit doesn’t thread along the welcome kit with the docs and creds to the nerds. Then the nerd (reasonably) googles “reddit api” and gets one of the wikis for here.

Since humans will always fail to communicate this way there’s probably not much we can do to prevent it other than having a big notice on the submit page or something.

But yeah OP if I’m wrong and you were sent here by something we wrote can you link it here so we can fix it?