Decide where the new secret will live
Create an account for redditproxy.com with email and a password of 12–72 UTF-8 bytes. Byte length is not character count. Google login is not available. The key appears once immediately after successful signup, before payment; save it in protected storage while it is visible. It is not sent by email or shown again on a later login.
Name the destination configuration clearly so a maintainer can distinguish this archive key from the old Reddit credential. Accounts, balances and keys belong to this domain. The account panel on this page manages your access; its Secure HttpOnly session cookie is separate from the key your application sends.
Connect one consumer before expanding access
Send X-API-Key: <key> or Authorization: Bearer <key> from the server. Neither form carries a Reddit OAuth session. Try /v1/posts?subreddit=dataengineering&limit=3, then inspect the returned fields and HTTP outcome. Do not put the secret in the request URL, public logs or browser code. Conditional 100 trial credits depend on network-wide anti-abuse eligibility; check the available balance rather than assuming signup grants them.
Coordinate replacement with the running client
A signed-in user can regenerate a key after confirming the password. The previous key becomes invalid immediately, so identify the jobs that use it and update their secret configuration. There is no password-reset feature. Invoice recovery in localStorage stores invoice and user identifiers per hostname, not the raw API key; it cannot restore a lost credential.
Use the account balance to plan the pilot
One successful retrieval, even empty, costs one credit. The rate is $1 per 1000 successful requests; $50 adds 50000 paid credits, with no subscription or paid-credit expiry. For a top-up, sign in and create a server invoice first. Use only its recipient and exact amount for USDT on TRON TRC20 or USDC on Ethereum mainnet ERC20. The invoice expires in one hour. Submit the transaction hash for verification; only a genuine confirmed matching transfer adds credits. Provider outages can leave verification pending, and settlement time is not guaranteed.
