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Reddit API Scraper

comchat/reddit-api-scraper
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Pay $5.00 for 1,000 results

Reddit Scraper is a powerful tool that allows you to extract data from Reddit such as posts by keyword. With Reddit Scraper, you can easily gather valuable information from Reddit without the need to log in. You can easily use this Reddit scraper as an alternative API.

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You can access the Reddit API Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

1# Start Server-Sent Events (SSE) session and keep it running
2curl "https://actors-mcp-server.apify.actor/sse?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>&actors=comchat/reddit-api-scraper"
3
4# Session id example output:
5# event: endpoint
6# data: /message?sessionId=9d820491-38d4-4c7d-bb6a-3b7dc542f1fa

Using 🔑 Reddit API Scraper via Model Context Protocol (MCP) server

MCP server lets you use 🔑 Reddit API Scraper within your AI workflows. Send API requests to trigger actions and receive real-time results. Take the received sessionId and use it to communicate with the MCP server. The message starts the 🔑 Reddit API Scraper Actor with the provided input.

1curl -X POST "https://actors-mcp-server.apify.actor/message?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>&session_id=<SESSION_ID>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
2  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
3  "id": 1,
4  "method": "tools/call",
5  "params": {
6    "arguments": {
7      "searchList": [
8            "webscraping"
9      ],
10      "resultsLimit": 5,
11      "sortBy": "new",
12      "proxy": {
13            "useApifyProxy": true,
14            "apifyProxyGroups": [
15                  "RESIDENTIAL"
16            ]
17      }
18},
19    "name": "comchat/reddit-api-scraper"
20  }
21}'

The response should be: Accepted. You should received response via SSE (JSON) as:

1event: message
2data: {
3  "result": {
4    "content": [
5      {
6        "type": "text",
7        "text": "ACTOR_RESPONSE"
8      }
9    ]
10  }
11}

Configure local MCP Server via standard input/output for 🔑 Reddit API Scraper

You can connect to the MCP Server using clients like ClaudeDesktop and LibreChat or build your own. The server can run both locally and remotely, giving you full flexibility. Set up the server in the client configuration as follows:

1{
2  "mcpServers": {
3    "actors-mcp-server": {
4      "command": "npx",
5      "args": [
6        "-y",
7        "@apify/actors-mcp-server",
8        "--actors",
9        "comchat/reddit-api-scraper"
10      ],
11      "env": {
12        "APIFY_TOKEN": "<YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
13      }
14    }
15  }
16}

You can further access the MCP client through the Tester MCP Client, a chat user interface to interact with the server.

To get started, check out the documentation and example clients. If you are interested in learning more about our MCP server, check out our blog post.