Reddit Image & Video Scraper

Turn any Reddit feed into a clean list of media files. Point this actor at subreddits, user profiles or individual post links and it returns one row per picture, GIF and video — the full-resolution image URL, the Reddit-hosted MP4 with its DASH and HLS streams, plus width, height, duration, audio flag and file extension — attached to the post it came from (title, author, subreddit, score, permalink, date). A 20-image gallery becomes 20 rows, ready to hand straight to a downloader, an image pipeline or a spreadsheet. No Reddit account and no login required.

What you can do with it

• Build a media dataset — sweep r/pics or any niche community and collect thousands of direct image URLs with dimensions and scores attached.
• Archive a creator's work — pass a list of usernames and pull every picture and video they have submitted, newest first or highest scoring first.
• Feed a computer-vision or training pipeline — filter to image and gallery only, set a minimum score, and get a quality-filtered set of full-resolution URLs.
• Track what visual content performs — every media row carries the parent post's score, upvote ratio and comment count, so you can rank formats, subreddits and creators by engagement.
• Grab the media from specific threads — paste a handful of post permalinks and get every asset those posts contain, including all gallery pages.
• Monitor a community's visual output on a schedule — run it daily with sort: new to capture what was posted since yesterday.

What you get

One row per media file (abridged — a real record has more fields):

{
  "mediaUrl": "https://preview.redd.it/4u6h07bw2zfh1.jpg?width=4649&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3cd11155d6a6aeb2b3b03ba14561ffa1a0e3261a",
  "mediaType": "gallery",
  "width": 4649,
  "height": 6974,
  "fileExtension": "jpg",
  "mimeType": "image/jpg",
  "caption": null,
  "galleryIndex": 0,
  "mediaIndex": 0,
  "mediaCount": 20,
  "durationSeconds": null,
  "hasAudio": null,
  "dashUrl": null,
  "hlsUrl": null,
  "isPreviewImage": false,
  "postId": "1v8yjkt",
  "postTitle": "[OC] Some portraits I took recently in Bristol, UK",
  "postUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1v8yjkt/oc_some_portraits_i_took_recently_in_bristol_uk/",
  "subreddit": "pics",
  "author": "slow_gentle_morning",
  "score": 11845,
  "upvoteRatio": 0.96,
  "numComments": 481,
  "createdAt": "2026-07-28T13:28:44.000Z",
  "over18": false,
  "source": "r/pics",
  "sourceType": "subreddit"
}

A Reddit-hosted video row looks like this instead:

{
  "mediaUrl": "https://v.redd.it/6lfbfgzs2zfh1/CMAF_720.mp4?source=fallback",
  "mediaType": "video",
  "width": 720,
  "height": 1280,
  "durationSeconds": 16,
  "hasAudio": true,
  "bitrateKbps": 2400,
  "fileExtension": "mp4",
  "dashUrl": "https://v.redd.it/6lfbfgzs2zfh1/DASHPlaylist.mpd?v=1&f=sd",
  "hlsUrl": "https://v.redd.it/6lfbfgzs2zfh1/HLSPlaylist.m3u8?v=1&f=sd",
  "postTitle": "Cracking open a beer with your bike right after finishing the Tour de France.",
  "subreddit": "nextfuckinglevel",
  "author": "dannybluey",
  "score": 32334
}

Switch One row per media file off and you get one row per post instead, with all of its assets inside a media array and a mediaCount next to it. That row is shaped as a post rather than as a media file, so the post's own fields are named id, title and url (not postId, postTitle and postUrl), and every media field listed below appears inside the media entries instead of at the top level.

Input reference

Field	Type	Default	What it does
subreddits	list of text	prefilled with pics, aww	Communities to pull media from. Names (pics), handles (r/pics) and full URLs all work.
usernames	list of text	empty	Profiles whose submitted posts are scanned for media. Accepts spez, u/spez or a profile URL.
postUrls	list of text	empty	Individual posts to pull media from. Accepts permalinks, redd.it short links or bare post IDs. The per-source post limit does not apply here — every post you list is read.
mediaTypes	multi-select	image, gallery, video, animated	Which kinds of media to keep. Add embed to also capture third-party players such as YouTube.
sort	select	hot	Which feed to pull: hot, new, top, rising or controversial. Profiles have no rising feed, so it falls back to new for them.
time	select	all	Time window for top and controversial: hour, day, week, month, year or all. Other sorts ignore it.
maxPostsPerSource	integer	100	How many posts containing matching media to save per subreddit or profile. The run works further back through the feed to find them, but stops digging once it has gone about five times deeper than your target — see Limits. Maximum 1000.
minScore	integer	empty	Keep only posts with at least this many upvotes.
includeNsfw	boolean	true	Keep posts marked 18+. Turn off to drop them.
includePostsWithoutMedia	boolean	false	Also save text and link posts that carry no matching media, with empty media fields.
oneRecordPerAsset	boolean	true	On: one row per picture/GIF/video. Off: one row per post, with a media array.
maxConcurrency	integer	4	How many of your sources are worked through at the same time. Higher is faster on long lists. 1 to 10.
Browse from	select	us	Country the run should use the view of. Reddit shows the same content everywhere, so most runs can leave this alone.

At least one of subreddits, usernames or postUrls must be filled in.

Output fields

Field	Description
mediaUrl	Direct URL of the picture, GIF or video file.
mediaType	image, gallery, video, animated or embed.
width, height	Pixel dimensions of the asset, when Reddit reports them.
durationSeconds	Length of a video in seconds.
hasAudio	Whether the video has an audio track (see the note under Limits).
dashUrl, hlsUrl	Streaming manifests for Reddit-hosted video.
bitrateKbps	Video bitrate reported by Reddit.
fileExtension	jpg, png, gif, mp4 … derived from the URL; null when the URL has none.
mimeType	Content type reported for gallery pictures.
caption	Caption the poster attached to a gallery picture.
galleryIndex	Position of the picture inside its gallery, starting at 0. null for non-gallery assets.
galleryMediaId	Reddit's own id for that gallery picture.
mediaIndex, mediaCount	Position of this asset among the post's saved assets, and how many there are.
isPreviewImage	true when the picture is the preview Reddit generated for a link post rather than an uploaded file.
embedProvider, embedTitle, embedThumbnail	Details of a third-party embed (YouTube, Streamable, …).
postId, postFullId	Reddit's id for the parent post.
postTitle	Title of the parent post.
postUrl, permalink	Absolute and relative links to the post.
subreddit	Community the post is in.
author	Username of the poster.
score, upvoteRatio, numComments	Engagement on the parent post.
flair	Link flair on the parent post.
createdAt	When the post was published (ISO 8601, UTC).
over18, spoiler, isOriginalContent	Post markers.
domain, linkUrl	Outbound domain and link for link posts.
source, sourceType	Which of your inputs produced this row, and whether it was a subreddit, a profile or a post URL.
scrapedAt	When the run collected the data.

Pricing

This actor is pay per event. There is exactly one billable event: apify-default-dataset-item, charged at $0.0004 per row — $0.40 per 1,000 rows — once for every row saved to the dataset. Nothing else is billed: everything the run does to find your media is free.

Because the default output is one row per media file, a post with a 20-picture gallery produces 20 billable rows ($0.008). If you would rather pay once per post, switch One row per media file off and every post arrives as a single row with its assets in a media array.

Posts that fail your filters are skipped before anything is saved, so you are never charged for content you filtered out. If a run hits its maximum-charge limit it stops cleanly and keeps everything already collected.

FAQ

Do I need a Reddit account? No. You do not need a Reddit account, a login, or any credentials — just enter what you want and run it.

How fast is it? Results come back in large batches, so a 100-post subreddit is usually finished in seconds and even long watchlists complete in minutes. Transient failures are retried automatically and heavy jobs pace themselves, so big lists keep moving without any configuration from you.

Can I run it on a schedule? Yes. A daily or hourly schedule with sort: new is the usual way to keep a media archive current. The actor holds no memory between runs, so each run returns whatever the feed currently shows — de-duplicate on mediaUrl or postId on your side if you are appending to the same store. The same post can also arrive twice inside one run if you list a subreddit and a profile (or a post link) that both contain it.

How do galleries work? By default each picture in a gallery becomes its own row, numbered with galleryIndex starting at 0, and every row repeats the parent post's details so the rows stand alone. Turn off One row per media file to get the gallery back as a single row with a media array.

Can I get only videos, or only images? Yes — set Media types to keep to just the buckets you want. Excluded types are dropped before anything is saved, so you are not charged for them.

Does it include NSFW content? Yes by default, and it covers 18+ communities without any extra configuration. Turn off Include 18+ posts to drop them.