Does Reddit API also require proxy/IP management?

There are many tools out there that allow reddit automation and post scheduling, and I assume they use the Reddit API for it. But how do they handle proxies/IPs? If they have many users posting through the tool are they all going to be banned becase the proxy/IP is shared among all of them? Or maybe that doesn't matter because it comes from the API and they allow it?

Maybe they provide you the option to setup your proxies

I also wondering this. Im using praw

petarapps said:

There are many tools out there that allow reddit automation and post scheduling, and I assume they use the Reddit API for it. But how do they handle proxies/IPs? If they have many users posting through the tool are they all going to be banned becase the proxy/IP is shared among all of them? Or maybe that doesn't matter because it comes from the API and they allow it?

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Yes, even when using the Reddit API, proper IP/proxy management is critical if you’re automating multiple accounts.

Reddit can spot patterns from accounts sharing the same IP and may restrict or ban them.
Most serious tools let you configure your own proxies to prevent this. Using quality mobile proxies with natural rotation is generally a good practice to avoid detection.

petarapps said:

There are many tools out there that allow reddit automation and post scheduling, and I assume they use the Reddit API for it. But how do they handle proxies/IPs? If they have many users posting through the tool are they all going to be banned becase the proxy/IP is shared among all of them? Or maybe that doesn't matter because it comes from the API and they allow it?

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Tools that let you post use the authenticated OAuth api. It doesn't matter if you use proxies for those since rate limits will still apply and you authenticate yourself as a User. On a per account basis, proxies are useless if you want to say use tools and schedule posts.

However if you are handling multiple accounts, you need proxies to stay safe from getting banned. If you make multiple accounts from the same IP and one of them gets banned, you risk all of them getting banned (unless the IP is from a mobile CGNAT, in which case they won't risk ip banning)

If you are not authenticated and are making requests to the api. Proxies will help you bypass rate limits and similar stuff. This is useful if you are scraping reddit or smth

While I wouldn't necessarily say it's required, it still does matter. Particularly, if the tool will be doing bulk posts, comment spam, or otherwise run multiple accounts from the same backed. Reddit's pretty aggressive about rate limiting and banning accs if it sees spam behaviour from shared IPs. Then there's community reporting because I swear some users only log in to report posts.
Anyway, if you're building your own or running gray, you're gonna want to rotate IPs (residential or mobile proxies, depends on which you need) just to avoid getting culled in batches.

API keys don’t protect accounts from behavioral flags or spam filters.