Register and preserve the one-time key
Begin by registering with a valid email and a password ranging from twelve to seventy-two bytes. The system supports this standard method without requiring Google login or wallet connection. Upon successful sign-up, you are immediately presented with a unique API key on the screen. This key is shown only once before you proceed to payment, so ensure you copy it securely for future authentication requests.
The password length is measured in UTF-8 bytes; characters may use more than one byte. Save both your password and the displayed key securely. Ordinary login does not reveal the full key again, and there is no automatic key email or password-reset feature. A signed-in user can regenerate a key after confirming the password; the old key stops working immediately, so update the research worker before resuming requests.
Check this account before collecting more pages
The account panel is on this key page. Your key, account and balance belong to redditlistening.com, not every brand in the network. A separate optional 100-credit trial is conditional on network-wide anti-abuse eligibility. The paid rate is $1 per 1000 successful retrievals, including empty responses; a $50 minimum top-up adds 50000 paid credits. Paid credits do not expire and there is no subscription.
For funding, sign in and create a server invoice for USDT TRC20 on TRON or USDC ERC20 on Ethereum mainnet. Use its exact amount, receiving address, token and network. The invoice expires one hour after creation; this does not guarantee a confirmation or crediting time. After transferring, provide the transaction hash for verification and check the server-reported status. Pending verification does not mean the balance has already increased.
Separate account access from the research record
Your server reads the API using X-API-Key or Authorization: Bearer with the domain key. The website session uses a Secure HttpOnly cookie instead. The widget stores invoice ID and user ID in localStorage per hostname to recover invoice state, not the raw API key, password or research dataset. Do not copy a real key into report appendices, public examples or response fixtures shared with analysts.
Begin with the backpack search in BuyItForLife and inspect what actually returns. The API does not label sentiment, calculate brand metrics or send live alerts. Manual codes and any local counts are your work and need an explicit scope. A public /v1/status response cannot establish key validity, balance or the presence of mentions. Handle 401, 402 and 429 as credential, credit and request-rate conditions rather than research findings.
