Reddit Subreddit Scraper

Scrape posts from any Reddit subreddit — no login, no API key, no manual scrolling.

Pick a subreddit and a sort order. Get back a clean dataset with post titles, body text, vote counts, upvote ratios, authors, and timestamps. Everything you'd see browsing the feed, delivered as structured data.

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Who is this for?

Market researchers & brand analysts Monitor what communities are discussing around your product, competitor, or industry. Reddit subreddits are where niche opinions concentrate — surface them without spending hours reading threads.

Growth hackers & community builders Track trending posts in specific subreddits before they peak. Understand what content resonates in your niche by sorting by hot, top, or rising.

Data scientists & AI teams Build training datasets, sentiment analysis pipelines, or trend models on authentic long-form user content. Pull from any subreddit with full body text included.

Developers & automation engineers Plug subreddit data directly into your pipeline via the Apify API, webhooks, or SDK. Full JSON output, exportable as CSV or Excel.

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What you get

Every post comes with:

Field	Example
title	AI Companies Are Trying to Seize Control of Elections
body	Full post text (text posts only)
url	Direct link to the post
subredditName	technology
subredditId	t5_2qh16
authorName	Plastic_Ninja_9014
authorId	t2_98wao505
createdAt	2026-06-23T19:14:14.077000+0000
score	5994
commentCount	271
upvoteRatio	0.969
postType	link / image / video / text
domain	yahoo.com (link posts only)
images	["https://i.redd.it/...", "https://preview.redd.it/...?s=..."] (image/gallery posts only)
nsfw	false
spoiler	false

Sample record

{
  "id": "t3_1udqjnw",
  "title": "AI Companies Are Trying to Seize Control of Elections",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1udqjnw/ai_companies_are_trying_to_seize_control_of/",
  "subredditName": "technology",
  "subredditId": "t5_2qh16",
  "authorName": "Plastic_Ninja_9014",
  "authorId": "t2_98wao505",
  "createdAt": "2026-06-23T19:14:14.077000+0000",
  "score": 5994,
  "commentCount": 271,
  "upvoteRatio": 0.9689058862653808,
  "postType": "link",
  "domain": "yahoo.com",
  "nsfw": false,
  "spoiler": false,
  "body": null,
  "images": null
}

Gallery post example (images field):

{
  "id": "t3_1ue13b6",
  "title": "Weird teeth thingy",
  "postType": "gallery",
  "images": [
    "https://preview.redd.it/weird-teeth-thingy-v0-s8eyzzka559h1.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=a90f41a96964c13703f10677c5664e7c87278e76",
    "https://preview.redd.it/weird-teeth-thingy-v0-jo0crzka559h1.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=a89fcfcb0c553730d0cdf2ecb48adaaa60cf06ec",
    "https://preview.redd.it/weird-teeth-thingy-v0-5wxg70la559h1.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=5ba689fa79a613d789aa02179683bd3910dfadcd"
  ]
}

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Getting started

1. Set your input

Parameter	Required	Default	Description
subreddit	Yes	—	Subreddit name (e.g. technology, worldnews, r/science)
sort	No	hot	Feed sort order: hot / new / top / rising / best
timeFilter	No	day	Time range for top sort only: hour / day / week / month / year / all
maxResults	No	100	Number of posts to collect (10–500)

2. Run it

Click Start in the Apify console, or use the API:

{
  "subreddit": "technology",
  "sort": "top",
  "timeFilter": "week",
  "maxResults": 100
}

3. Get your data

Results land in your Apify dataset as each batch completes. Export as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or stream directly into your app via the Apify API.

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For developers

JavaScript / TypeScript

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_API_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('YOUR_ACTOR_ID').call({
  subreddit: 'technology',
  sort: 'top',
  timeFilter: 'week',
  maxResults: 200,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient('YOUR_API_TOKEN')

run = client.actor('YOUR_ACTOR_ID').call(run_input={
    'subreddit': 'technology',
    'sort': 'top',
    'timeFilter': 'week',
    'maxResults': 200,
})

for item in client.dataset(run['defaultDatasetId']).iterate_items():
    print(item)

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Limitations

• Volume: 10 to 500 posts per run.
• Body text: Only available on text posts. Link, image, and video posts return null for body.
• Images: Only available on image and gallery posts. Other post types return null for images. image posts return a direct i.redd.it URL with no expiry. gallery posts return preview.redd.it URLs signed with a CDN token — these are valid for approximately 7 days from the time of scraping.
• timeFilter: Only applies when sort is set to top. Ignored for all other sort orders.

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