Endpoint Playground
Returns Arctic Shift's native time-series values. Supply an absolute creation-time range and a precision; ranges that could exceed 1,000 points are rejected. Counts, score sums, and retrieval-delay sums are archive metrics, not current Reddit totals. Arctic Shift says time-series data may be approximate and take hours or days to update.
curl 'https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/reddit/archive/time-series?metric=posts_count&precision=year&created_after=2024-01-01&created_before=2025-01-01' \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"| Parameter | Type | Required | Prefilled value | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| metric | string | Yes | posts_count | Archive metric |
| subreddit | string | No | Optional subreddit scope; required for subreddit_subscribers, and unsupported for retrieval-delay metrics | |
| precision | string | Yes | year | Time bucket precision |
| created_after | string | Yes | 2024-01-01 | Absolute start time: epoch seconds/milliseconds or ISO 8601 |
| created_before | string | Yes | 2025-01-01 | Absolute end time: epoch seconds/milliseconds or ISO 8601 |
{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": {
"metric": "posts_count",
"subreddit": "OpenAI",
"precision": "year",
"created_after": "2024-01-01",
"created_before": "2025-01-01",
"points": [
{
"date": 1704067200,
"value": 24979
}
],
"source": {
"type": "arctic_shift",
"url": "https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/api/time_series?after=2024-01-01&before=2025-01-01&key=r%2FOpenAI%2Fposts%2Fcount&precision=year"
}
}
}The sample response, schema and code snippets below work without an account. Sending a live request needs an API key.