Reddit Scraper for Users

Overview

This is an unofficial Reddit API–based scraper that provides seamless, unrestricted access to Reddit user profiles without authentication. With a simple setup and minimal input, you can extract a user’s profile (“about”), their posts (submitted), and comments (activity).

Key Features

• No Authentication Needed: Pull public user data without logging in.
• Profile + Activity: Collect user about metadata, submitted posts, and comments.
• Simple Setup: Provide a single required field — the user URL.
• Cost-Effective: Around $0.015 per 1,000 results (estimate).

Use Case

This scraper is built to extract public data for any Reddit user, including their profile info, recent posts, and comment activity. It supports both /user/ and /u/ URL patterns.

• Example Use Case URL:
  https://www.reddit.com/user/lukaskrivka

Data Extraction Details

The scraper captures a comprehensive set of fields:

• User Profile (about)

  • Username, user ID
  • Karma (link, comment, total)
  • Account creation time (UTC + ISO)
  • Account flags (employee, mod, premium)
  • Avatar / icon, Snoovatar
  • User’s personal subreddit (title, description, subscriber count, NSFW flag, URL)
  • Profile permalink

• Posts (submitted)

  • Title, body (markdown + HTML)
  • Author info (username, ID, premium)
  • Subreddit metadata (name, prefixed name, ID, subscribers)
  • Engagement (score, ups, upvote ratio, comment count)
  • Links (permalink, outbound URL, domain)
  • Media (thumbnail, preview resolutions, video details)
  • Status flags (stickied, pinned, locked, spoiler, NSFW, archived)
  • Flair details (text, richtext, css class, colors)
  • Creation time (UTC + ISO)
  • Listing cursors (e.g., listingAfter, listingDist) for pagination context

• Comments

  • Comment body (plain + HTML)
  • Author info (username, ID)
  • Engagement (ups, direct replies count)
  • Context (parent ID, post ID, subreddit name)
  • Links to the parent post (linkTitle, linkPermalink, linkUrl)
  • Direct comment permalink
  • Creation time (UTC + ISO)

Data Output Formats

• JSON
• XML
• CSV
• Excel
• HTML

Example Applications

• Influencer & KOL Research: Profile and activity snapshots of target users.
• Trust & Safety: Review recent public posting/commenting behavior.
• Market & Competitor Research: Identify active voices and topical engagement.
• Community Analytics: Map where a user participates and how content performs.

Data Output Example

Below is a concise sample showing one user profile, one post, and one comment :

[
  {
    "contentType": "user",
    "username": "example_user",
    "userId": "abc123",
    "isEmployee": false,
    "isMod": false,
    "isGold": true,
    "iconImg": "https://styles.redditmedia.com/...",
    "commentKarma": 12345,
    "linkKarma": 6789,
    "totalKarma": 19134,
    "createdUtc": 1609459200,
    "createdAt": "2021-01-01T00:00:00Z",
    "snoovatarImg": "https://i.redd.it/snoovatar/...",
    "subreddit": {
      "displayNamePrefixed": "u/example_user",
      "title": "Example’s profile",
      "over18": false,
      "publicDescription": "Just an example user.",
      "subscribers": 42,
      "url": "/user/example_user/"
    },
    "permalink": "https://reddit.com/user/example_user/"
  },
  {
    "contentType": "post",
    "sourceType": "link",
    "id": "1abcxyz",
    "name": "t3_1abcxyz",
    "subreddit": "technology",
    "subredditId": "t5_2qh16",
    "subredditPrefixed": "r/technology",
    "subredditSubscribers": 14000000,
    "author": "example_user",
    "authorFullname": "t2_abc123",
    "authorPremium": true,
    "title": "Interesting research on distributed systems",
    "selftext": "",
    "selftextHtml": null,
    "flair": {
      "text": "Research",
      "richtext": [{ "e": "text", "t": "Research" }],
      "cssClass": "research",
      "backgroundColor": null,
      "textColor": null,
      "type": "richtext"
    },
    "score": 512,
    "ups": 512,
    "upvoteRatio": 0.95,
    "numComments": 88,
    "permalink": "https://reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1abcxyz/interesting_research_on_distributed_systems/",
    "outboundUrl": "https://example.org/paper.pdf",
    "domain": "example.org",
    "thumbnail": "https://external-preview.redd.it/example.jpeg?width=140&height=78",
    "preview": {
      "source": { "url": "https://external-preview.redd.it/example.jpeg?auto=webp", "width": 1280, "height": 720 },
      "resolutions": [
        { "url": "https://external-preview.redd.it/example.jpeg?width=320", "width": 320, "height": 180 },
        { "url": "https://external-preview.redd.it/example.jpeg?width=640", "width": 640, "height": 360 }
      ]
    },
    "isVideo": false,
    "media": { "type": null },
    "stickied": false,
    "pinned": false,
    "over18": false,
    "locked": false,
    "spoiler": false,
    "archived": false,
    "isCrosspostable": false,
    "postHint": "link",
    "suggestedSort": null,
    "distinguished": null,
    "numCrossposts": 0,
    "removedByCategory": null,
    "createdUtc": 1758345600,
    "createdAt": "2025-09-20T05:00:00Z",
    "listingAfter": "t3_1defghi",
    "listingDist": 25
  },
  {
    "contentType": "comment",
    "createdAt": "2025-09-20T06:45:36Z",
    "createdUtc": 1758351936,
    "id": "t1_lo1abcd",
    "parseId": "lo1abcd",
    "parentId": "t1_lo0abcd",
    "postId": "t3_1abcxyz",
    "subreddit": "technology",
    "communityName": "r/technology",
    "authorId": "t2_abc123",
    "author": "example_user",
    "body": "Great summary of the trade-offs. Would love benchmarks!",
    "body_html": "<div class=\"md\"><p>Great summary of the trade-offs. Would love benchmarks!</p></div>",
    "upvotes": 156,
    "noOfreplies": 3,
    "url": "https://reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1abcxyz/interesting_research_on_distributed_systems/lo1abcd/",
    "linkTitle": "Interesting research on distributed systems",
    "linkPermalink": "https://reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1abcxyz/interesting_research_on_distributed_systems/",
    "linkUrl": "https://example.org/paper.pdf"
  }
]