Reddit Post Scraper

Scrape specific Reddit post URLs for complete post data including title, body text, images, videos, gallery content, awards, crosspost details, and optional top comments with nested replies — using Reddit's official JSON API.

Ideal for monitoring specific posts, ingesting post data for NLP/analysis, or building content pipelines from curated Reddit URLs.

Features

• Batch input — Provide a list of Reddit post URLs and scrape them all
• Full post details — Title, selftext, author, score, flair, domain, awards, media, and 50+ fields
• Video extraction — HLS (streaming), DASH, and fallback video URLs with dimensions and duration
• Gallery support — All gallery images in order with captions and MP4 alternatives
• Comments — Optional top-20 comments with up to 5 nested reply levels
• Parallel execution — Processes 2 posts concurrently for efficiency
• Awards breakdown — Individual award names and gilding tiers
• Stealth mode — Random user agents, headers, and fingerprinting to avoid rate limits

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Input Options

Field	Type	Default	Description
postUrls	Array	required	List of Reddit post URLs to scrape
includeComments	Boolean	true	Fetch top 20 comments with nested replies
headless	Boolean	true	Run browser in headless mode
proxyConfiguration	Object	Apify Residential	Proxy settings

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Example Inputs

Scrape a single post with comments

{
  "postUrls": [
    "https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/1t9jt9w/bluejs_compile_javascript_to_12mb_native_binaries/"
  ],
  "includeComments": true
}

Scrape multiple posts, no comments

{
  "postUrls": [
    "https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/abc123/post_one/",
    "https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/def456/post_two/",
    "https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/ghi789/post_three/"
  ],
  "includeComments": false
}

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Output Dataset Fields

Field	Type	Description
id	String	Reddit post ID
title	String	Post title
url	String	External link URL (or Reddit permalink for self posts)
permalink	String	Full Reddit URL
subreddit	String	Subreddit name
subredditId	String	Subreddit fullname (t5_xxx)
subredditType	String	public, private, restricted
subredditSubscribers	Number	Subscriber count
author	String	Post author username
authorFullname	String	Author fullname (t2_xxx)
authorFlair	String	Author flair text
authorPremium	Boolean	Whether author has Reddit Premium
score	Number	Upvotes minus downvotes
upvoteRatio	Number	Fraction of upvotes (0.0–1.0)
numComments	Number	Total comment count
createdAt	String	ISO 8601 creation timestamp
editedAt	String/Boolean	ISO 8601 edit timestamp or false
selfText	String	Full post body text (self posts)
postType	String	self · link · image · video · gallery · crosspost
isVideo	Boolean	Whether post contains hosted video
isSelf	Boolean	Whether it's a text/self post
isGallery	Boolean	Whether it's a gallery post
isOC	Boolean	Original content flag
thumbnail	String	Thumbnail image URL
flair	String	Post flair text
flairBackgroundColor	String	Flair background hex color
domain	String	Link domain
nsfw	Boolean	NSFW flag
spoiler	Boolean	Spoiler flag
locked	Boolean	Whether post is locked
pinned	Boolean	Whether post is pinned
stickied	Boolean	Whether post is stickied
archived	Boolean	Whether post is archived
distinguished	String	moderator, admin, or null
suggestedSort	String	Suggested comment sort
numCrossposts	Number	Cross-post count
postHint	String	self · link · image · rich:video · hosted:video
isCrossPost	Boolean	Whether it's a cross-post
crosspostFrom	String	Original subreddit if cross-posted
crosspostOriginal	Object	Full original post data if cross-posted
awardsCount	Number	Total awards received
gilded	Number	Number of times gilded
gildings	Object	Breakdown by award tier
awards	Array	Award names and counts
previewImages	Array	Preview image objects with resolutions
videoData	Object	Video URLs (HLS, DASH, fallback), dimensions, duration
galleryImages	Array	Gallery images with URL, caption, mp4
mediaEmbed	Object	Embedded media HTML/dimensions
comments	Array	Top comments (if includeComments=true)
scrapedAt	String	ISO 8601 scrape timestamp

Comment Object

Field	Type	Description
id	String	Comment ID
author	String	Comment author
body	String	Comment text
score	Number	Comment score
createdAt	String	ISO 8601 timestamp
edited	String/Boolean	Edit timestamp or false
flair	String	Author flair
distinguished	String	moderator, admin, or null
stickied	Boolean	Whether comment is stickied
replies	Array	Nested replies (up to 5 deep)

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Example Output

{
  "id": "1t9jt9w",
  "title": "BlueJS: Compile JavaScript to 12MB native binaries",
  "url": "https://github.com/example/bluejs",
  "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/1t9jt9w/...",
  "subreddit": "javascript",
  "subredditSubscribers": 2400000,
  "author": "dev_user",
  "score": 1842,
  "upvoteRatio": 0.97,
  "numComments": 143,
  "selfText": "",
  "postType": "link",
  "domain": "github.com",
  "awardsCount": 3,
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": "cmt123",
      "author": "another_user",
      "body": "This is really impressive!",
      "score": 245,
      "createdAt": "2025-06-01T11:00:00.000Z",
      "replies": []
    }
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2025-06-01T12:00:00.000Z"
}

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Related Actors

• Reddit Subreddit Scraper — Scrape new/hot/top posts from a specific subreddit
• Reddit Search Scraper — Search Reddit by keyword across all subreddits

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Author

Built by Kumar Lakshmanan · lakshmanan.w3dev@gmail.com