Reddit Profile Scraper

Scrape Reddit user profiles — karma breakdown, verified email, premium status, avatar, bio, trophy case — plus a user's full post and comment history. Filter by subreddit, keyword, score, date range, post type, flair and 20+ other criteria. No Reddit API key, no login, no rate limits.

What this actor does

• Full profile data — post/comment/total karma, awardee & awarder karma, Reddit Premium, verified email, moderator & employee flags, avatar, bio, account age, optional trophy case and moderated-subreddit list
• Post and comment history — walk as deep as Reddit allows, sorted by New, Hot, Top or Controversial, with a date window
• Flexible sections — overview (posts + comments), posts only, or comments only, each with its own item cap
• 30+ filters — subreddit, keyword, score range, post type, flair, domain, awards, content length, and exclusion toggles for stickied/removed/crossposted/spoiler/locked/archived posts
• Flexible username input — bare usernames, u/name, or full profile URLs
• Empty fields are omitted from every record

Output: per-profile

One record per username (dataType: "user_profile") when "Include profile info record" is on:

• username, user_id, profile_url
• post_karma, comment_karma, total_karma, awardee_karma, awarder_karma
• is_gold (Reddit Premium), is_mod, is_employee, has_verified_email, verified
• has_subscribed, is_blocked, is_friend — relative to the logged-out viewing session
• pref_show_snoovatar, icon_img (avatar), snoovatar_img, snoovatar_size
• accept_followers, hide_from_robots
• user_subreddit — the profile's bio (public_description), banner image, display name, title, subscriber count, NSFW flag, type and URL
• trophies — [{name, icon_url}], when "Include trophies" is on
• moderated_subreddits — [{subreddit, subreddit_prefixed, subscribers, subreddit_type, mod_permissions, over_18, url, icon_img, created_utc}], when "Include moderated subreddits" is on
• created_utc, created_at — account creation date
• crawled_at, source

Output: per-post

One record per post (dataType: "post") returned by the posts or overview sections:

• subreddit, subreddit_prefixed, subreddit_id, subreddit_subscribers, subreddit_type
• post_id, post_name, title
• author — bare username of the post author
• author_meta — lean author-identity object: {username, id, flair, flair_background_color, flair_text_color, flair_css_class, flair_richtext, flair_template_id, flair_type, is_premium, is_blocked, has_patreon_flair} (built from data already on the post, no extra requests — does not include karma or other heavy profile fields; those live only on the separate user_profile record)
• content, content_html — self-post body (empty for link posts)
• content_url, url, permalink, url_overridden_by_dest, domain
• post_hint, is_self, post_type, media_type
• score, ups, downs, upvote_ratio, num_comments, num_crossposts, num_duplicates
• link_flair, link_flair_background_color, link_flair_text_color, link_flair_css_class, link_flair_template_id, link_flair_type, link_flair_richtext
• thumbnail_url, thumbnail_width, thumbnail_height
• created_utc, created_at, edited, edited_at
• 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_reddit_media_domain, is_robot_indexable, is_created_from_ads_ui
• allow_live_comments, contest_mode, hide_score, content_categories, media_only, quarantine, suggested_sort, no_follow, send_replies
• gilded, total_awards_received, awards — [{name, count, coin_price, icon_url}]
• removed_by_category, distinguished
• has_media, images, gallery_images, gallery_count
• video_url, video_duration_seconds, video_width, video_height, video_has_audio, video_bitrate_kbps — Reddit-hosted videos
• poll_data — poll options, vote counts and end time
• embed_provider, embed_type, embed_title, embed_author_name, embed_thumbnail_url, embed_html, embed_width, embed_height — for link posts embedding YouTube, Imgur, Twitch, etc.
• search_term — the keyword filter that matched, when the keyword filter is set
• crawled_at, source

Output: per-comment

One record per comment (dataType: "comment") returned by the comments or overview sections:

• post_id, post_url, post_title, link_id
• comment_id, comment_name
• author — bare username of the comment author
• author_meta — lean author-identity object: {username, id, flair, flair_background_color, flair_text_color, flair_css_class, flair_richtext, flair_template_id, flair_type, is_premium, is_blocked, has_patreon_flair} (built from data already on the comment, no extra requests)
• body, body_html
• score, ups, downs, score_hidden, controversiality
• subreddit, subreddit_prefixed, subreddit_id
• created_utc, created_at, edited, edited_at
• depth, parent_id, parent_kind, is_op, comment_type
• is_stickied, is_locked, distinguished, collapsed, collapsed_reason, collapsed_reason_code, collapsed_because_crowd_control
• can_gild, no_follow, send_replies, unrepliable_reason
• gilded, total_awards_received, awards — [{name, count, coin_price, icon_url}]
• removed_by_category, permalink
• search_term — the keyword filter that matched, when the keyword filter is set
• crawled_at, source

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
usernames	array	required	Reddit usernames to scrape — bare (spez), u/-prefixed, or profile URLs
includeProfileInfo	boolean	true	Emit the profile-info record
includeTrophies	boolean	false	Also fetch the trophy case (names + icons); one extra page load per user
includeModeratedSubreddits	boolean	false	Also fetch the communities the user moderates
sections	array	["posts"]	History sections to scrape: overview (posts + comments), posts, comments
maxPosts	integer	100	Max post items per user (1–5,000)
maxComments	integer	100	Max comment items per user (1–5,000)
sort	string	new	History sort order: new, hot, top, controversial
timeFilter	string	all	Time window for top/controversial sort: hour, day, week, month, year, all
includeNSFW	boolean	false	Include 18+ posts
onlyWithFlair	boolean	false	Keep only posts that have a link flair set
subreddits	array	–	Restrict to posts/comments made in these subreddits
keyword	string	–	Keep only posts/comments whose title, self-text or body contains this text
titleContains	string	–	Keep only posts whose title contains this text
contentContains	string	–	Keep only self posts whose body contains this text
flairContains	string	–	Keep only posts whose link flair contains this text
authorFlairContains	string	–	Keep only posts whose author flair contains this text
domain	string	–	Keep only posts whose link domain contains this text, e.g. youtube.com
distinguished	string	–	Keep only moderator, admin, special, or none (regular) posts
postType	string	–	Keep only posts of this type: self, link, image, video, gallery, poll
minScore / maxScore	integer	–	Keep only posts/comments with a score in this range
minPostComments / maxPostComments	integer	–	Keep only posts whose own comment count is in this range
minUpvoteRatio	number	–	Keep only posts with an upvote ratio at or above this value (0–1)
minAwards	integer	–	Keep only posts with at least this many total awards
minContentLength / maxContentLength	integer	–	Keep only self posts whose body length (characters) is in this range
onlyOriginalContent	boolean	false	Keep only posts tagged as original content
excludeStickied	boolean	false	Drop stickied/pinned posts
excludeRemoved	boolean	false	Drop removed/deleted posts
excludeCrossposts	boolean	false	Drop crossposted posts
excludeSpoilers	boolean	false	Drop spoiler-tagged posts
excludeLocked	boolean	false	Drop posts with comments locked by a moderator
excludeArchived	boolean	false	Drop posts Reddit has archived (6+ months old)
excludeDeletedAuthor	boolean	false	Drop posts whose author account was deleted
excludeKeywords	array	–	Drop posts whose title/body/flair contains any of these terms
postedAfter / postedBefore	date	–	Keep only items created within this date range (UTC)

Example: full profile snapshot

{
  "usernames": ["spez"],
  "includeProfileInfo": true,
  "includeTrophies": true,
  "includeModeratedSubreddits": true,
  "sections": []
}

Example: recent posts in a subreddit with a keyword filter

{
  "usernames": ["u/gallowboob"],
  "sections": ["posts"],
  "sort": "new",
  "maxPosts": 200,
  "subreddits": ["pics", "AskReddit"],
  "keyword": "photo",
  "excludeStickied": true
}

Example: top-scoring comments over the past year

{
  "usernames": ["spez"],
  "includeProfileInfo": false,
  "sections": ["comments"],
  "sort": "top",
  "timeFilter": "year",
  "maxComments": 500,
  "minScore": 50
}

Example: multi-user overview with content-type and date filters

{
  "usernames": ["spez", "u/example_user", "https://www.reddit.com/user/another_user/"],
  "sections": ["overview"],
  "maxPosts": 100,
  "maxComments": 100,
  "postType": "self",
  "minContentLength": 200,
  "postedAfter": "2025-01-01",
  "postedBefore": "2025-12-31",
  "excludeRemoved": true,
  "excludeDeletedAuthor": true
}

Use cases

• User research — analyze an account's posting patterns, engagement and karma trends
• Community and account vetting — verify an account's age, karma, trophies and activity before trusting recommendations or partnerships
• Content discovery — pull a creator's or influencer's top posts by subreddit or keyword
• Moderation research — audit a user's post history for policy violations across specific communities
• Behavioral and social research — bulk-export user history for academic or market research
• Profile monitoring — track a user's activity over time on a schedule

FAQ

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

Why does this actor need a residential proxy? Reddit blocks datacenter IPs with a network-security interstitial, so the actor automatically routes every request through Apify's residential proxy group. This happens transparently — there's no proxy setting to configure.

Does it include private activity like upvotes or saved posts? No — only public posts and comments are accessible. Voting history, saved items and hidden posts are private to the account owner and not exposed by Reddit's public data.

Why is a field missing from some records? Empty or not-applicable fields are omitted rather than returned as null or empty strings — for example, trophies only appears when the "Include trophies" option is on and the user has at least one trophy.

Are Reddit follower counts included? Reddit doesn't expose follower counts publicly. The profile record includes accept_followers (whether the user allows followers) instead.

What happens for suspended or nonexistent usernames? The run completes and reports that no data was found for that username; suspended/nonexistent accounts return no public data. Banned accounts that still resolve return a minimal profile record with zeroed karma.

Is history capped? Reddit itself caps a user's browsable history at roughly the most recent 1,000 items per section, regardless of maxPosts/maxComments.

Is this actor affiliated with Reddit? No — this is an independent, third-party actor that reads Reddit's public web pages and JSON endpoints. It is not built, endorsed or maintained by Reddit, Inc.

Can I filter to a date range? Yes — use postedAfter / postedBefore (UTC dates) together with sort: "new" for the most reliable results, since newest-first sorting lets the scraper stop as soon as it passes the date window.

Can I export the results? Yes — download as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML, pull via the REST API, or connect through integrations like n8n, Zapier, Make, or an AI agent via the Apify MCP server.