Reddit Public API PHP Wrapper

⚠️ This library no longer works

Reddit has closed the unauthenticated public .json endpoints this library was built on. Requests to URLs like https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1.json are now blocked by Reddit's network security and return HTTP 403 instead of JSON, so every fetch() call fails.

Reddit's API now requires OAuth authentication. See Reddit's API documentation for details.

This repository is kept for archival purposes only.

Reddit provides a very convenient access to its data just by adding .json to the end of normal URLs. For example, https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1.json will present you the json response.

This is a very simple wrapper around this feature of Reedit. Thies to grant easy access to subreddit and user data.

1. Installation

Install it as a dependency using Composer

composer require raicem/reddit-public-api-wrapper

2. Instantiate

use RedditWrapper\Wrapper;
use RedditWrapper\WrapperClient;

$wrapper = new Wrapper(new WrapperClient());

3. Queries

3.1. Subreddit Query

Fetches information about a certain subreddit.

use RedditWrapper\Queries\SubredditQuery;
use RedditWrapper\Enums\SubredditSort;
use RedditWrapper\Enums\SubredditSortTime;

$query = new SubredditQuery([
    'subreddit' => 'formula1',
]);

$response = $wrapper->fetch($query);

You may add sort options to your query for best, top, rising, controversial posts in a subreddit. You may use the constants provided with the RedditWrapper\Enums\SubredditSort and RedditWrapper\Enums\SubredditSortTime.

use RedditWrapper\Queries\SubredditQuery;
use RedditWrapper\Enums\SubredditSort;
use RedditWrapper\Enums\SubredditSortTime;

$query = new SubredditQuery([
    'subreddit' => 'formula1',
    'sort' => SubredditSort::TOP,
    'sortTime' => SubredditSortTime::WEEK,
]);

$response = $wrapper->fetch($query);

3.2. User Query

Fetches the feed belonging to a user.

use RedditWrapper\Queries\UserQuery;

$query = new UserQuery([
    'username' => 'unidan',
]);

$response = $wrapper->fetch($query);

All of these queries extends the QueryInterface in the package. So you can create your own query implementing QueryInterface in your code base and then provide it to the Wrapper.

4. Magic Stuff

4.1. __call method on the Wrapper

I believe the main function of this library will be to fetch subreddit information. I wanted to streamline that functionality as much as possible.

So without creating a new query, you may call the subreddit's name as a method on this wrapper.

use RedditWrapper\Wrapper;
use RedditWrapper\WrapperClient;

$wrapper = new Wrapper(new WrapperClient());

$response = $wrapper->formula1();

4.2. fetchSimple method on Wrapper

When fetching subreddit information, Reddit sends a lot of information that is probaby not neccessery. The default response can very difficult to get through. fetchSimple method removes all the clutter and tries to present response with only more general values.

$query = new SubredditQuery([
    'subreddit' => 'formula1',
    'sort' => SubredditSort::TOP,
    'sortTime' => SubredditSortTime::WEEK,
]);

$response = $wrapper->fetchSimple($query);

fetchSimple method returns these values. This method only works for SubredditQuery instances.

Value
title
id
thumbnail
permalink
num_comments
score
created