# Reddit Search Users API Documentation

<p><strong>Reddit Search Users API</strong> finds users by name. Each user has username, fullname, creation date, link and comment karma, total karma, avatar and a short description.</p><p>Every list has <code>pagination</code> with <code>limit</code>, <code>after</code>, <code>next_after</code> and <code>has_more</code>. Pass <code>next_after</code> as <code>after</code> to read the next page. A page is never another page's data under a new label. Reddit ends every list after about 1000 items.</p>

- **Documentation:** [https://scrappa.co/docs/reddit-api/reddit_search_users](https://scrappa.co/docs/reddit-api/reddit_search_users)
- **API group:** Reddit API
- **Endpoint:** `GET https://scrappa.co/api/reddit/search/users`

## Authentication

Send your Scrappa API key in the `X-API-KEY` request header. Paid endpoints also support accountless x402 payments when called without an API key.

## Parameters

| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `query` | string | Yes | Search text, up to 256 characters. Example: spez. |
| `after` | string | No | Cursor from pagination.next_after of the previous page. Example: t3_1xhv532. |
| `limit` | integer | No | Items per page, 1 to 100 (default 25). Example: 25. |

## Example response

```json
{
    "data": {
        "query": "spez",
        "users": [
            {
                "id": "1w72",
                "url": "https://www.reddit.com/user/spez",
                "is_gold": true,
                "over_18": false,
                "fullname": "t2_1w72",
                "username": "spez",
                "verified": true,
                "avatar_url": "https://styles.redditmedia.com/t5_3k30p/styles/profileIcon_uj015iwx9s7g1.png?width=256&height=256&crop=256:256,smart&s=aa819b0964f6e3019e...",
                "created_at": "2005-06-06T04:00:00+00:00",
                "link_karma": 184586,
                "created_utc": 1118030400,
                "description": "Reddit CEO",
                "is_employee": true,
                "total_karma": 941124,
                "comment_karma": 756538
            }
        ],
        "pagination": {
            "after": null,
            "limit": 2,
            "has_more": true,
            "next_after": "t2_1w0c1sslo9"
        }
    },
    "meta": {
        "billable": true,
        "endpoint_family": "search_users"
    },
    "success": true
}
```

## Errors

| Status | Error | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 422 | Validation Error | A required parameter or a value is invalid. This response is not billable. |
| 503 | Upstream Unavailable | Reddit could not be reached or returned data that does not match the request. This response is not billable and is retryable. |

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- [API documentation](https://scrappa.co/docs)
- [Full LLM-readable API reference](https://scrappa.co/llms-full.txt)
- [OpenAPI specification](https://scrappa.co/docs/api.json)
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