diff --git a/searx/engines/reddit.py b/searx/engines/reddit.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d2b185b40
--- /dev/null
+++ b/searx/engines/reddit.py
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+"""
+ Reddit
+
+ @website      https://www.reddit.com/
+ @provide-api  yes (https://www.reddit.com/dev/api)
+
+ @using-api    yes
+ @results      JSON
+ @stable       yes
+ @parse        url, title, content, thumbnail, publishedDate
+"""
+
+import json
+from cgi import escape
+from urllib import urlencode
+from urlparse import urlparse
+from datetime import datetime
+
+# engine dependent config
+categories = ['general', 'images', 'news', 'social media']
+page_size = 25
+
+# search-url
+search_url = 'https://www.reddit.com/search.json?{query}'
+
+
+# do search-request
+def request(query, params):
+    query = urlencode({'q': query,
+                       'limit': page_size})
+    params['url'] = search_url.format(query=query)
+
+    return params
+
+
+# get response from search-request
+def response(resp):
+    img_results = []
+    text_results = []
+
+    search_results = json.loads(resp.text)
+
+    # return empty array if there are no results
+    if 'data' not in search_results:
+        return []
+
+    posts = search_results.get('data', {}).get('children', [])
+
+    # process results
+    for post in posts:
+        data = post['data']
+
+        # extract post information
+        params = {
+            'url': data['url'],
+            'title': data['title']
+        }
+
+        # if thumbnail field contains a valid URL, we need to change template
+        thumbnail = data['thumbnail']
+        url_info = urlparse(thumbnail)
+        # netloc & path
+        if url_info[1] != '' and url_info[2] != '':
+            params['thumbnail_src'] = thumbnail
+            params['template'] = 'images.html'
+            img_results.append(params)
+        else:
+            created = datetime.fromtimestamp(data['created_utc'])
+            params['content'] = escape(data['selftext'])
+            params['publishedDate'] = created
+            text_results.append(params)
+
+    # show images first and text results second
+    return img_results + text_results
diff --git a/searx/settings.yml b/searx/settings.yml
index bd075b86c..4942ae56f 100644
--- a/searx/settings.yml
+++ b/searx/settings.yml
@@ -213,6 +213,13 @@ engines:
     shortcut : qws
     categories : social media
 
+  - name : reddit
+    engine : reddit
+    shortcut : re
+    page_size : 25
+    timeout : 10.0
+    disabled : True
+
   - name : kickass
     engine : kickass
     shortcut : ka
diff --git a/tests/unit/engines/test_reddit.py b/tests/unit/engines/test_reddit.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..51589e300
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/unit/engines/test_reddit.py
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+from collections import defaultdict
+import mock
+from searx.engines import reddit
+from searx.testing import SearxTestCase
+from datetime import datetime
+
+
+class TestRedditEngine(SearxTestCase):
+
+    def test_request(self):
+        query = 'test_query'
+        dic = defaultdict(dict)
+        params = reddit.request(query, dic)
+        self.assertTrue('url' in params)
+        self.assertTrue(query in params['url'])
+        self.assertTrue('reddit.com' in params['url'])
+
+    def test_response(self):
+        resp = mock.Mock(text='{}')
+        self.assertEqual(reddit.response(resp), [])
+
+        json = """
+        {
+            "kind": "Listing",
+            "data": {
+                "children": [{
+                    "data": {
+                        "url": "http://google.com/",
+                        "title": "Title number one",
+                        "selftext": "Sample",
+                        "created_utc": 1401219957.0,
+                        "thumbnail": "http://image.com/picture.jpg"
+                    }
+                }, {
+                    "data": {
+                        "url": "https://reddit.com/",
+                        "title": "Title number two",
+                        "selftext": "Dominus vobiscum",
+                        "created_utc": 1438792533.0,
+                        "thumbnail": "self"
+                    }
+                }]
+            }
+        }
+        """
+
+        resp = mock.Mock(text=json)
+        results = reddit.response(resp)
+
+        self.assertEqual(len(results), 2)
+        self.assertEqual(type(results), list)
+
+        # testing first result (picture)
+        r = results[0]
+        self.assertEqual(r['url'], 'http://google.com/')
+        self.assertEqual(r['title'], 'Title number one')
+        self.assertEqual(r['template'], 'images.html')
+        self.assertEqual(r['thumbnail_src'], 'http://image.com/picture.jpg')
+
+        # testing second result (self-post)
+        r = results[1]
+        self.assertEqual(r['url'], 'https://reddit.com/')
+        self.assertEqual(r['title'], 'Title number two')
+        self.assertEqual(r['content'], 'Dominus vobiscum')
+        created = datetime.fromtimestamp(1438792533.0)
+        self.assertEqual(r['publishedDate'], created)
+        self.assertTrue('thumbnail_src' not in r)