👥 Reddit Community Scraper

🆓 100% FREE | 📊 Full Subreddit Data | 🔒 No API Key Required

A comprehensive tool for collecting information about subreddits and their post feeds with support for date filtering and sorting.

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✨ Why Choose This Scraper?

• ✅ Completely Free - No hidden costs or subscriptions
• ✅ No Reddit API Key Needed - Works out of the box
• ✅ Monitor Multiple Communities - Track unlimited subreddits
• ✅ Residential Proxies Included - Avoid rate limits
• ✅ Date Filtering - Get posts from specific time periods

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🚀 Key Features

• Community Metadata: Subscriber count, description, name
• Post Feed: Collect posts with various sorting methods
• Date Filter: Limit by publication date
• Pagination: Automatic handling of large feeds
• Post Statistics: Upvotes, comments, authors

📋 Input Parameters

{
  "startUrls": ["https://www.reddit.com/r/python"],
  "sort": "hot",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "postDateLimit": "2025-01-01",
  "skipCommunity": false,
  "debugMode": false
}

Parameters:

• startUrls (array, required): List of subreddit URLs
• sort (string): Sorting - hot, new, top, rising
• maxItems (integer): Maximum number of posts
• postDateLimit (string): Date limit in YYYY-MM-DD format (optional)
• skipCommunity (boolean): Skip community metadata collection
• debugMode (boolean): Debug mode

📤 Output Data

Community Information:

{
  "dataType": "community_info",
  "url": "https://old.reddit.com/r/python",
  "title": "r/python - Python",
  "members": "1,234,567",
  "description": "News and discussion about Python...",
  "scrapedAt": "2025-01-20T10:30:00.000Z"
}

Post from Feed:

{
  "dataType": "post_preview",
  "title": "Python 3.13 Released!",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/...",
  "author": "username",
  "subreddit": "Python",
  "id": "t3_abc123",
  "upvotes": "1234",
  "comments_count": "56",
  "created_utc": 1234567890.0,
  "is_pinned": false,
  "scrapedAt": "2025-01-20T10:30:00.000Z"
}

💡 Usage Examples

Top 50 posts from r/Python

{
  "startUrls": ["https://www.reddit.com/r/python"],
  "sort": "top",
  "maxItems": 50
}

New posts from the last month

{
  "startUrls": ["https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning"],
  "sort": "new",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "postDateLimit": "2025-01-01"
}

Community metadata only (no posts)

{
  "startUrls": ["https://www.reddit.com/r/programming"],
  "maxItems": 0,
  "skipCommunity": false
}

Monitor multiple communities

{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.reddit.com/r/Python",
    "https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython",
    "https://www.reddit.com/r/django"
  ],
  "sort": "hot",
  "maxItems": 25
}

⚙️ Technical Details

• Memory: 256 MB (optimized for efficiency)
• Proxy: Residential (automatic, included free)
• Timeout: 3600 seconds
• Source: old.reddit.com
• Date Format: ISO 8601

📝 Notes

• Support for various URL formats (r/python, /r/python/, full URL)
• Automatic pagination for large feeds
• Date filter stops scraping when limit is reached
• Pinned posts are marked separately
• All timestamps in UTC format

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🎯 Perfect For

• 📈 Community growth tracking
• 🔍 Trend discovery and analysis
• 📊 Competitive research
• 🤖 Content aggregation
• 📰 News monitoring

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💬 Questions or Issues? Feel free to reach out or check the documentation!