Reddit Search Scraper 🔍

Search Reddit by keyword and get back posts, comments, communities, users and media — with the same sorting and date filters as reddit.com. Every result comes with scores, comment counts and exact timestamps. Clean structured JSON, ready for analysis.

✨ What you get

One record per result. Posts and media:

Field	Description
id / url / title / text	The post itself
type	post or media
link / domain / thumbnail / mediaUrl	Linked or embedded content
score / upvoteRatio / numComments	Engagement as real numbers
createdAt	Exact ISO timestamp
community / communityId	Where it was posted
author / authorId	Who posted it
flair / over18 / spoiler / locked / stickied	Content flags
position / searchTerm / searchUrl / scrapedAt	Provenance

Comments add postId / postTitle / postUrl; communities include members and description; users include karma, linkKarma and commentKarma.

⚙️ Options

• Search terms — any number of keywords; each gets its own result quota.
• Result types — toggle posts, comments, communities, users and media independently, each with its own per-term limit.
• Community — restrict the search to a single community (e.g. programming).
• Sorting — Relevance, Hot, Top, New, Rising or Comments, exactly like reddit.com.
• Date filter — last hour, day, week, month, year or all time.
• NSFW — excluded by default, opt in if you need it.

🚀 Example

Input:

{
    "searchTerms": ["world cup 2026"],
    "searchForPosts": true,
    "searchForCommunities": true,
    "sortSearch": "top",
    "filterByDate": "month",
    "maxPostsPerTerm": 10,
    "maxCommunitiesPerTerm": 3
}

One record from the output:

{
    "type": "post",
    "id": "1t0vadj",
    "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/worldcup/comments/1t0vadj/i_was_in_south_africa_for_the_2010_world_cup_im/",
    "title": "I was in South Africa for the 2010 World Cup. I'm in the USA for the 2026 World Cup. I can't believe the difference…",
    "text": "2010 was all folks talked about for years. The whole country was united in purpose, tickets were hard to get…",
    "link": "https://www.reddit.com/r/worldcup/comments/1t0vadj/i_was_in_south_africa_for_the_2010_world_cup_im/",
    "community": "r/worldcup",
    "communityId": "t5_2rdrs",
    "author": "Lucky_Mongoose_4834",
    "authorId": "t2_94yy1hvu",
    "score": 3208,
    "upvoteRatio": 0.97,
    "numComments": 1744,
    "createdAt": "2026-05-01T14:38:39.000Z",
    "over18": false,
    "spoiler": false,
    "locked": false,
    "stickied": false,
    "flair": null,
    "domain": "self.worldcup",
    "postHint": null,
    "isVideo": false,
    "isGallery": false,
    "thumbnail": "",
    "mediaUrl": "",
    "position": 1,
    "searchTerm": "world cup 2026",
    "searchUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=world+cup+2026",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-06-12T11:40:12.694Z"
}

💡 Use cases

• Brand monitoring — track what Reddit says about any product or company.
• Trend research — find the top posts on any topic, filtered by time window.
• Community discovery — map the subreddits and power users in your niche.
• Sentiment analysis — pull comments mentioning your keywords for NLP pipelines.

💳 Pricing

You pay per result scraped — no subscriptions, no hidden compute costs.

❓ FAQ

Why did I get fewer results than my limit? Reddit returns at most a few hundred results per search — when the listing runs out, the actor stops. That's Reddit's ceiling, not an error.

Does the date filter apply to everything? It is most reliable for posts (same as on reddit.com, where the date filter shows under the Posts tab).

Are the timestamps exact? Yes — every result includes the exact UTC creation time, not just "5 days ago".

Can I search inside one community? Yes — set the Community field. Posts, comments and media are then searched only there; community and user searches stay global.