Reddit Scraper

Pull Reddit posts, comment threads, user activity, and search results into a clean dataset — no API key, no login.

Scrape Reddit posts, comments, and subreddit details from subreddits, post threads, user profiles, and searches. Point it at a subreddit to get the community's stats and its hot, new, top, or rising posts; at a single post to capture it with its comment tree; at a user profile to collect what they posted or commented; or at a search to gather every post matching a keyword across Reddit or inside one community. Built for social-listening teams, market and sentiment researchers, community managers, and anyone who needs Reddit data without wiring up the official API.

⚡ Quick start

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/" },
    { "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1vy502t/" }
  ],
  "searchQueries": ["nvidia earnings"],
  "maxItems": 5,
  "maxComments": 5
}

🧩 Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
startUrls	array	yes	—	Reddit URLs to scrape. Subreddits (https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/), posts (https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1vy502t/), user profiles (https://www.reddit.com/user/wsbapp/ or /user/wsbapp/comments/) and search pages (https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=nvidia) are supported.
searchQueries	array	no	—	Search terms to look up across all of Reddit, for example "nvidia earnings". Each query returns matching posts.
sort	string	no	"hot"	Order of posts in subreddit, user and search listings: hot, new, top or rising. Comment threads follow the same choice (new, otherwise top).
timeFilter	string	no	"week"	Time window applied when Sort is Top: hour, day, week, month, year or all.
maxItems	integer	no	5	Maximum number of posts to return per start URL or search query. Comments are limited separately by Maximum comments.
maxComments	integer	no	20	Maximum number of comments to return for each post URL, walking the thread depth-first. Set to 0 to skip comments.
proxyConfiguration	object	no	{ "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }	Apify proxy settings. Reddit blocks datacenter and direct connections, so residential Apify Proxy sessions are used by default.

📤 Output

Every row carries an itemType of post, comment or subreddit. A subreddit start URL pushes one subreddit row with the community's weekly activity, followed by its posts in the chosen order. A post start URL pushes the post itself and then its comments, depth-first, exactly as the thread reads on the site. A user profile pushes the account's posts (or, for /comments/ URLs, its comments). Searches push matching posts.

Fields that do not apply to a row's type are null.

Fields

Field	Type	Description
itemType	string	post, comment or subreddit.
postId	string	Post rows: the post's Reddit id, e.g. t3_1vy502t. Comment rows: the id of the post the comment belongs to.
title	string	Post title, or the subreddit's display name for subreddit rows.
link	string	Permalink of the post, comment or subreddit on reddit.com.
selftext	string	Body text of a text post; null for link and media posts.
author	string	Username of the post or comment author.
authorId	string	The author's Reddit account id, e.g. t2_3ypbf.
authorProfile	string	URL of the author's profile.
subreddit	string	Name of the community, without the r/ prefix.
publishingDate	string	ISO 8601 timestamp of when the post or comment was created.
postUpvotes	integer	Post score (upvotes minus downvotes).
upvoteRatio	number	Share of votes that were upvotes, from 0 to 1.
commentCount	integer	Number of comments on the post.
flair	string	The post's flair label, e.g. News or Meme.
attachmentType	string	Kind of content attached to the post: text, image, video, gallery, link, multi_media or customPost.
attachmentLink	string	URL of the attached content: the external link, the media file, or the post itself for text posts.
domain	string	Domain of the attached content, e.g. i.redd.it or self.wallstreetbets.
commentId	string	Comment rows: the comment's Reddit id, e.g. t1_p5vok6c.
parentId	string	Id of the comment being replied to, or of the post for top-level comments.
body	string	Comment text.
upvotes	integer	Comment score.
depth	integer	Nesting level of the comment in its thread; 0 for top-level comments.
isSubmitter	boolean	Whether the comment was written by the post's author.
subredditId	string	Subreddit rows: the community's Reddit id, e.g. t5_2th52.
description	string	The community's public description.
weeklyVisitors	integer	Number of visitors the community had in the past week.
weeklyContributions	integer	Number of posts and comments made in the community in the past week.
iconUrl	string	URL of the community icon.

💡 Use cases

• Track sentiment and trending topics in communities such as r/wallstreetbets or r/technology for market and product research.
• Collect complete comment threads for content analysis, moderation studies, or training data.
• Monitor mentions of a brand, product, or ticker across Reddit with search queries.
• Follow what a specific account posts and comments over time.

❓ FAQ

• Do I need a proxy? Yes. Reddit rejects cloud and datacenter IP addresses, so the Actor uses residential Apify Proxy sessions by default. Keep the default unless you have your own residential proxies.
• How many results can I get? maxItems caps posts per start URL or search query and maxComments caps comments per post. Add more start URLs or queries to widen coverage.
• Which sort orders are supported? hot, new, top and rising for subreddits; searches and user profiles fall back to hot or new where Reddit offers no rising order. timeFilter applies to top.
• Why are some fields empty on a post I scraped by URL? A post fetched by its own URL comes from Reddit's post feed, which carries the title, author, date and text but no vote figures; commentCount is taken from the comment thread instead.
• Why did a run return fewer items than expected? Reddit may have changed its layout or rate-limited the session. Open an issue and we will update the Actor.

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