Reddit Subreddit Posts Scraper

Scrape posts from multiple subreddits in a single run with full metadata, images, videos, gallery content, awards, and optional comments. Each subreddit is scraped independently up to the configured per-subreddit limit.

Features

• Multi-subreddit input — Provide a list of subreddits; all are scraped in one actor run
• Per-subreddit limit — maxItemsPerSubreddit controls how many posts to get per subreddit independently
• Sort modes — New, Hot, Top, Rising, or Controversial
• Time filters — For Top/Controversial: hour, day, week, month, year, all time
• Deep scraping — Opens each post in a parallel browser tab for complete fields (selfText, images, video, gallery, awards, crosspost data)
• Parallel tabs — Processes 3 posts simultaneously per subreddit
• Pagination — Automatically follows after cursor
• Comments — Optional top-20 comments with up to 5 nested replies
• 50+ fields per post
• Stealth mode — Random user agents and fingerprinting

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Input Options

Field	Type	Default	Description
subreddits	Array	required	List of subreddit names (without r/)
sortBy	Enum	new	new · hot · top · rising · controversial
topTime	Enum	week	For Top/Controversial: hour · day · week · month · year · all
maxItemsPerSubreddit	Number	50	Max posts per subreddit (1–1000)
deepScraping	Boolean	true	Open each post for full metadata
includeComments	Boolean	false	Include 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 newest posts from multiple subreddits

{
  "subreddits": ["javascript", "webdev", "node"],
  "sortBy": "new",
  "maxItemsPerSubreddit": 50,
  "deepScraping": true
}

Top posts of the month from multiple subreddits

{
  "subreddits": ["programming", "technology", "MachineLearning"],
  "sortBy": "top",
  "topTime": "month",
  "maxItemsPerSubreddit": 25,
  "deepScraping": true,
  "includeComments": true
}

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Output Dataset Fields

Same 50+ fields as the Reddit Subreddit Scraper — all posts across all subreddits go into a single dataset. Each post includes the subreddit field so you can filter by source.

Key fields: id, title, url, permalink, subreddit, author, score, upvoteRatio, numComments, createdAt, postType, isVideo, isGallery, selfText, thumbnail, flair, nsfw, awards, videoData, galleryImages, previewImages, comments, scrapedAt

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Related Actors

• Reddit Subreddit Scraper — Single subreddit with more sort/filter options
• Reddit Search Scraper — Search Reddit by keyword
• Reddit Subreddit Users Scraper — Extract all unique users from a subreddit

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Author

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