moderator-only access

An access tier gating a data service behind proof that the caller is a community moderator acting for moderation, guideline enforcement or member safety.

Under NCRI's Pushshift terms, selling or monetizing Reddit data and derivatives is explicitly barred.

In this catalog it appears concretely: - Reddit Data API via Pushshift — "access restricted to Reddit moderators certifying use for community moderation; commercialization prohibited; OAuth bearer tokens".

License language decides what you may ship to customers. Misreading it has ended product launches, and the gap between free to view and free to redistribute is where most of those failures begin.

The failure mode is concrete: a source can carry the moderator-only access label while differing from what you need on exactly the dimension that matters — access restricted to Reddit moderators certifying use for community moderation; commercialization prohibited; OAuth bearer tokens. Comparing two sources on that line usually settles the choice faster than any feature matrix.

You rarely have to take a vendor's word for it. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets Datadory catalogs are free to access, and Reddit Data API via Pushshift lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.

Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:

1. Open Reddit Data API via Pushshift and confirm its record — "access restricted to Reddit moderators certifying use for community moderation; commercialization prohibited; OAuth bearer tokens" — against the files you actually receive.
2. Pin down update cadence in writing. Across this catalog, 22.6% of 1,744 datasets refresh daily and 64 still arrive only through a manual request form, so ask exactly how fresh each release is.
3. Check whether definitions are verified at all. Field definitions are verified for 1495 of 1,744 datasets (85.7%), and any source you license should meet that bar.
4. Price the delivery route before the license. In this catalog bulk download is the most common access method (725 datasets) ahead of official APIs (574), and 379 sources still require scraping — a maintenance cost that lands on you, not the vendor.

See the term applied to real records: interactive-home-entertainment data, interactive-media-services data.

Adjacent concepts worth reading next: - attribution requirement - commercial delivery terms nc license - freemium API tier