# Changelog of Reddit Scraper (`automation-lab/reddit-scraper`) Actor - **URL**: https://apify.com/automation-lab/reddit-scraper/changelog.md - **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/automation-lab/reddit-scraper.md ## Changelog This changelog highlights releases that materially changed Reddit Scraper for users. Dates use UTC; small internal refactors and routine maintenance are intentionally omitted. ### 2026-10-05 *Reliability* - Reduced memory pressure when processing large subreddit/search responses and multi-target batches, without reducing output fields or limits. - Fixed valid RSS posts and comments mentioning rate limits being mistaken for blocked responses. ### 2026-10-04 *Reliability* - Fatal batch errors now preserve failed-run status instead of passing through normal-success cleanup. Scraping output and charging remain unchanged. ### 2026-09-22 *Features* - Added opt-in Standby HTTP endpoints for short subreddit and post/comment requests. Batch runs, dataset output, and existing per-event prices remain unchanged. ### 2026-09-21 *Reliability* - Large multi-target and comment-heavy runs now retain only a bounded in-memory export sample while streaming the complete dataset, reducing the risk of memory-related failures without changing output. ### 2026-09-18 *Reliability* - Runs with a custom short platform timeout now stop before the deadline and preserve already scraped posts instead of being terminated while processing later targets. ### 2026-08-31 *Fixes* - Fixed AI-ready output so `jsonl-finetune` assistant messages and `rag-markdown` documents include available comment text and author metadata in the transformed post record. These formats no longer emit or charge separate comment records. ### 2026-08-17 *Fixes* - Fixed `sort` and `timeFilter` inputs being ignored for plain subreddit URLs. Subreddit runs now honor the requested ranking and time period unless the URL explicitly specifies its own sort or time filter. ### 2026-07-13 *Reliability* - Restored bounded best-effort post score, upvote-ratio, and comment-score enrichment when Reddit blocks direct public-page requests. The Actor now retries only the optional enrichment request through a US residential proxy while keeping RSS discovery direct and preserving valid RSS output if enrichment remains unavailable. - Direct post URLs now also attempt vote enrichment from Reddit's public post/comment markup; fields remain best-effort when Reddit does not expose them. ### 2026-07-01 *Fixes* - Improved runs when Reddit blocks or rate-limits its RSS pages. The Actor now reaches its alternative public-data fallback sooner instead of exhausting unnecessary retries. - Reduced the time and recovery overhead for blocked subreddit and search targets while preserving the existing output format. ### 2026-06-16 *Reliability* - Blocked RSS responses are no longer reported as successful runs with an unexplained empty dataset. - Empty, private, unavailable, and invalid targets now produce a clear target-status dataset record when possible, so automations can distinguish "no accessible results" from an Actor failure. - Improved non-RSS recovery for subreddit listings and Reddit searches. ### 2026-06-10 *Features* - Post records now include the discovered Reddit comment count when comments are scraped. - Added optional delivery of a bounded run summary to an Apify MCP connector. This is opt-in through the `mcpDestinationConnector` input and does not replace the normal dataset output. ### 2026-06-04 *Integrations* - MCP clients and AI assistants can now pass a single Reddit URL through `url`, `comment_url`, or `commentUrl`; the Actor normalizes these aliases to the standard `urls` input. ### 2026-06-03 *Features* - Added focused comment-context mode for a specific Reddit comment URL. It returns the target comment and the surrounding context Reddit makes publicly available. ### 2026-05-31 *Changes* - Reworked Reddit recovery around public RSS and fallback pages, restoring practical coverage for listings, searches, users, posts, and comments after Reddit restricted older access paths. - Removed internal recovery metadata from public dataset records. Some vote, award, subscriber, media, and deep-comment fields remain best-effort when Reddit does not expose them publicly. ### 2026-05-29 *Reliability* - Expanded fallback coverage across subreddit listings, searches, user profiles, direct posts, and nested comments when Reddit limits its primary public pages. ### 2026-05-24 *Features* - Added convenient subreddit and user shortcuts, finer comment controls, and AI-ready `jsonl-finetune` and `rag-markdown` output formats. ### 2026-05-14 *Safety* - The Actor now respects Apify's maximum charge per run and stops cleanly when the configured spending cap is reached. ### 2026-05-11 *Fixes* - Fixed request compatibility regressions that caused affected runs to finish with zero Reddit items. Users affected by empty results could rerun the same input after this release. ### 2026-04-05 *Features* - Added `jsonl-finetune` output for supervised fine-tuning datasets and `rag-markdown` output for retrieval and LLM workflows. ### 2026-03-22 *Features* - Added strict keyword filtering and duplicate removal for Reddit posts. *Fixes* - Improved handling of nullable Reddit fields and fixed a missing cloud runtime dependency.