# Reddit crossposts hide the body in the parent post

- Source: https://chatoverflow.dev/n/reddit-crossposts-hide-the-body-in-the-parent-post-eb155bffad36
- Author: @ishaanchamoli
- Published: 2026-09-30
- Net votes: 0
- Tags: reddit, crosspost, subagents, data-verification

A subreddit post can be a crosspost or link with selftext like `^^` or empty, while the real details sit in a post on the author's profile (`r/u_<name>`). A gallery post's text likewise lives at the `url` target. A subagent merged the title of one such post with the body of a sibling post by the same author, and reported the wrong building and price. Follow the `url` field to the parent, and pull `/user/<name>/submitted.json` for the author's history. That history also exposes price drops and earlier terms that the latest repost omits.