Reddit Community Scraper

Scrape complete community intelligence for any subreddit — subscriber count, weekly active users & contributions, posting rules, moderator list, wiki pages, branding (icon/banner/colors) and community settings — plus optional, filterable recent posts. Discover subreddits by keyword or browse currently popular / newest communities instead of typing exact names. No API key, no login required.

What this actor does

• Full community profile — title, description, submit text, subscriber count, weekly active users & weekly contributions, creation date, community type, NSFW/quarantine flags, branding and settings
• Community rules, moderator list and wiki pages — each fetched only when its input toggle is enabled
• Optional recent posts — the full post contract (score, flair, awards, media, gallery, poll, crosspost data) with 20+ filters: sort/time window, date range, score/comment/award thresholds, post type, flair/title/body keyword matches, author allowlist, domain, and exclusion toggles for stickied/removed/crossposted/spoiler/locked/deleted-author posts
• Discover subreddits — search Reddit's community directory by keyword, or browse currently popular / newest communities, and the matching subreddits are added to the run automatically
• Empty fields are omitted — every record only contains fields Reddit actually returned for that community or post

Output: per-community

Every subreddit produces one record with dataType: "community".

• subreddit, subreddit_prefixed, subreddit_id, url — identity
• title, description, description_html, public_description, public_description_html, submit_text, submit_text_html, submit_text_label, submit_link_label — descriptive text
• subscribers, active_user_count — subscriber/active-user counts (active_user_count only when Reddit's API returns it)
• weekly_active_users, weekly_contributions — Reddit's weekly-activity metric (when "Include weekly active stats" is on)
• created_utc, created_at, subreddit_type, submission_type, restrict_posting, restrict_commenting, over18, quarantine, wiki_enabled, lang, advertiser_category — metadata
• community_icon, icon_img, icon_width, icon_height, banner_img, banner_background_image, banner_background_color, banner_width, banner_height, mobile_banner_image, header_img, header_title, header_width, header_height, primary_color, key_color — branding (dimensions only when the community set a custom size)
• allow_images, allow_videos, allow_videogifs, allow_galleries, allow_polls, allow_predictions, allow_predictions_tournament, allow_prediction_contributors, allow_talks, allow_discovery, allowed_media_in_comments, spoilers_enabled, original_content_tag_enabled, all_original_content, is_crosspostable_subreddit, link_flair_enabled, link_flair_position, user_flair_enabled_in_sr, user_flair_position, user_flair_type, user_flair_text, user_flair_richtext, user_flair_template_id, user_flair_background_color, user_flair_text_color, can_assign_link_flair, can_assign_user_flair, suggested_comment_sort, accept_followers, emojis_enabled, comment_score_hide_mins, collapse_deleted_comments, free_form_reports, hide_ads, public_traffic, community_reviewed, has_menu_widget, disable_contributor_requests, should_archive_posts, show_media, show_media_preview, should_show_media_in_comments_setting, user_sr_theme_enabled — community settings
• rules[] — short_name, description, description_html, kind, violation_reason, priority, created_utc (when "Include community rules" is on)
• moderators[] — name, mod_permissions, author_flair_text, moderator_since_at (when "Include moderator list" is on — see FAQ below, this list is often unavailable)
• wiki_pages[] — name, content_md, content_html, reason, revision_id, revision_date, revision_by (when "Include wiki pages" is on)
• search_term — the discovery keyword that surfaced this subreddit (only present when found via discoverQuery)
• crawled_at, source — fetch timestamp and data source

Output: per-post

Each scraped post produces one record with dataType: "post", when "Include recent posts" is on.

• post_id, post_name, subreddit, subreddit_prefixed, subreddit_id, subreddit_subscribers, subreddit_type — identity
• title, content, content_html, content_url, url, permalink, url_overridden_by_dest, domain, post_hint, is_self, post_type, media_type — content
• author, author_id, author_flair, author_flair_background_color, author_flair_text_color, author_flair_type, author_flair_css_class, author_flair_richtext, author_flair_template_id, author_premium, author_is_blocked, author_patreon_flair — author
• score, ups, downs, upvote_ratio, num_comments, num_crossposts, num_duplicates, gilded, total_awards_received, awards[] (name, count, coin_price, icon_url) — engagement
• link_flair, link_flair_background_color, link_flair_text_color, link_flair_type, link_flair_css_class, link_flair_richtext, link_flair_template_id — post flair
• thumbnail_url, thumbnail_width, thumbnail_height, has_media, images[], gallery_images[], gallery_count, video_url, poll_data — media (galleries/video/polls populate their own fields, otherwise omitted)
• is_stickied, is_locked, is_archived, is_pinned, is_nsfw, is_spoiler, is_original_content, is_crosspost, crosspost_parent_id, is_crosspostable, is_meta, is_robot_indexable, is_reddit_media_domain, media_only, no_follow, send_replies, allow_live_comments, contest_mode, hide_score, suggested_sort, quarantine, content_categories, removed_by_category, distinguished, hidden — flags
• created_utc, created_at, edited, edited_at — timing
• crawled_at, source — fetch timestamp and data source

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
subreddits	array	["python"]	Names, r/ names or full URLs. Optional if discoverQuery is set.
discoverMode	string	search	search (use discoverQuery), popular (browse currently popular communities) or new (browse newest communities) — adds matching subreddits to the run in addition to subreddits
discoverQuery	string	–	Search Reddit's community directory for this keyword and add the matching subreddits to the run (mode=search)
discoverSort	string	relevance	relevance or activity (most active first) (mode=search)
maxDiscoverResults	int	10	Max subreddits to add from the keyword search, or to browse from popular/new (1–100)
includeRules	bool	true	Fetch community rules
includeWiki	bool	false	Fetch wiki pages (markdown + HTML + revisions)
maxWikiPages	int	20	Max wiki pages (0–200)
includeWeeklyStats	bool	true	Weekly active users & contributions
includeModerators	bool	true	Fetch the public moderator list
includePosts	bool	true	Also scrape recent posts
maxPosts	int	25	Max posts per subreddit (1–1,000)
sort	string	hot	hot, new, top, rising, controversial, best
timeFilter	string	day	hour/day/week/month/year/all (used when sort is top or controversial)
includeNSFW	bool	false	Include 18+ posts
onlyWithFlair	bool	false	Keep only posts that have a flair
postType	string	–	Keep only self/link/image/video/gallery/poll posts
minScore	int	–	Keep only posts with a score at or above this value
maxScore	int	–	Keep only posts with a score at or below this value
minComments	int	–	Keep only posts with at least this many comments
maxComments	int	–	Keep only posts with at most this many comments
excludeStickied	bool	false	Drop stickied/pinned posts
minUpvoteRatio	number	–	Keep only posts with an upvote ratio (0–1) at or above this value
excludeRemoved	bool	false	Drop posts removed by a mod/Reddit or deleted by their author
excludeCrossposts	bool	false	Drop crossposted posts, keeping only original submissions
excludeSpoilers	bool	false	Drop posts marked as a spoiler
excludeLocked	bool	false	Drop posts with comments locked by a moderator
excludeDeletedAuthor	bool	false	Drop posts whose author account was deleted
onlyOriginalContent	bool	false	Keep only posts tagged as original content (OC)
minAwards	int	–	Keep only posts with at least this many total awards
titleContains	string	–	Keep only posts whose title contains this text (case-insensitive)
contentContains	string	–	Keep only self (text) posts whose body contains this text (case-insensitive)
flairContains	string	–	Keep only posts whose flair text contains this text (case-insensitive)
authorFlairContains	string	–	Keep only posts whose author flair text contains this text (case-insensitive)
authors	array	–	Keep only posts submitted by one of these usernames
domain	string	–	Keep only posts whose link domain contains this text
distinguished	string	–	Keep only moderator/admin/special posts, or none for regular posts only
postedAfter	date	–	Posts created on or after this date (UTC)
postedBefore	date	–	Posts created on or before this date (end of day, UTC)

Example: full community profile with posts

{
  "subreddits": ["python", "learnpython"],
  "includeRules": true,
  "includeWiki": true,
  "includeModerators": true,
  "includeWeeklyStats": true,
  "includePosts": true,
  "maxPosts": 50,
  "sort": "top",
  "timeFilter": "week"
}

Example: community metadata only, no posts

{
  "subreddits": ["dataisbeautiful"],
  "includePosts": false,
  "includeWiki": false
}

Example: filtered posts from a subreddit

{
  "subreddits": ["technology"],
  "includePosts": true,
  "maxPosts": 100,
  "sort": "top",
  "timeFilter": "month",
  "minScore": 500,
  "minComments": 50,
  "postType": "self",
  "excludeStickied": true,
  "excludeCrossposts": true
}

Example: discover subreddits by keyword

{
  "subreddits": [],
  "discoverMode": "search",
  "discoverQuery": "machine learning",
  "discoverSort": "activity",
  "maxDiscoverResults": 15,
  "includePosts": false
}

Use cases

• Community research — profile a subreddit before entering a market
• Brand monitoring — track weekly activity spikes in your niche's subreddits (schedule runs)
• Moderation research — study rules and posting policies across communities
• Content strategy — understand what a community allows before posting
• Competitive intelligence — compare the size and activity of competitor communities
• Subreddit discovery — find relevant communities for a topic without knowing exact names upfront

FAQ

Do I need a Reddit API key or login? No — the actor uses Reddit's public web data.

Do I need to configure a proxy? No. The actor automatically routes every request through Apify's residential proxy (pinned to the US), because Reddit blocks datacenter IPs — no proxy and shared/datacenter proxy groups return HTTP 403. This is handled internally and isn't a user-facing setting.

Why is moderators[] sometimes missing? Reddit has been intermittently blocking its public, unauthenticated moderator-list endpoint (about/moderators.json) for many subreddits. When that happens the actor falls back to the community's moderators page, and if that's also unavailable, moderators[] is simply omitted from the record rather than returned empty. All other community fields, rules, wiki and posts are unaffected. This is a platform-side limitation, not a run failure.

What are weekly active users? Reddit's own community-activity metric shown on subreddit pages — a better engagement signal than subscriber count alone.

Why does a subreddit return no records? Private, banned or nonexistent subreddits return nothing. NSFW-marked subreddits are also gated for logged-out access and return no records even with includeNSFW on — that filter only affects NSFW posts inside otherwise-public subreddits.

Does this include follower counts or traffic stats? No — follower counts and traffic stats require moderator authentication and aren't public data, so they're not returned.

What happens if a subreddit has the wiki disabled? wiki_pages is simply omitted for that subreddit — no error.

How much does it cost? Pay per result stored — see the Pricing tab.

Can I export the data? Yes — JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML, plus REST API and integrations with n8n, Zapier, Make and AI agents via the Apify MCP server.

Is this affiliated with Reddit? No — this is a third-party actor built on Reddit's public web data.