Community metadata

A community is more than its listing. reddit reads the metadata around it: the posted rules, the moderator list, the wiki, and the duplicate discussions that point at the same link.

Rules

reddit rules golang

Each record is one posted rule: its short name, the full description, what it applies to (posts, comments, or both), and its priority. This is the same list a community shows in its sidebar.

Moderators

reddit mods golang

Each record is one moderator: the name, the full name, when they were added, and the permissions they hold. The list is public for any non-private community.

Wiki

reddit wiki golang            # the wiki index page
reddit wiki golang faq        # a named page

wiki fetches a page's content (the markdown source), who last revised it, and whether the current viewer may revise it. With one argument it reads the index; a second argument names a specific page.

To see what pages a wiki has, list its index:

reddit wiki-pages golang

Each row is a page path you can hand back to wiki.

Duplicates

When the same link gets posted to several communities, Reddit tracks the other discussions. duplicates lists them:

reddit duplicates 1abc23 -n 20

The argument is a post id or URL, and each record is another post of the same link, so you can see every community that discussed it. dupes is an alias.

When metadata is gated

A private or quarantined community answers these with a block or a 403, and reddit exits with code 5 (blocked) or 3 (no data) accordingly. A community with no wiki, or one that restricts its wiki to moderators, returns nothing to read. See troubleshooting for what each exit code means.