Reddit Scraper Fast — Newest Posts & Search

Grab the newest posts from any public subreddit, or search Reddit by keyword — no login, no API key, no OAuth. Clean JSON output, ready for data pipelines, dashboards, or research.

Why This Actor?

• No Reddit API key needed — works against public Reddit, no app registration
• No login, no OAuth — just point it at a subreddit or a search term
• Pay-per-result — only pay for the posts you get back
• Lightweight & fast — pure HTTP, runs comfortably in minimal memory

What It Does

• Newest posts — the most recent posts from any public subreddit
• Keyword search — search across all of Reddit, or scope the search to one subreddit
• Each post comes back with title, author, subreddit, body text, timestamp, and a direct link

Scope & Limits (please read)

This actor focuses on doing two things reliably:

1. Newest posts per subreddit (up to 25 most recent)
2. Keyword search, sorted newest first (up to 25 results)

It does not scrape comment threads, user/profile histories, or sort modes beyond "newest". Reddit's public feed returns at most 25 items per subreddit or query, so maxItems is capped at 25.

Input

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
subreddit	string		Subreddit to fetch newest posts from (without r/)
searchQuery	string		Keyword to search. Combine with subreddit to search within it, or leave subreddit empty to search all of Reddit
maxItems	number	25	Posts to return (1–25)

Examples

Newest posts from r/wordpress:

{ "subreddit": "wordpress", "maxItems": 10 }

Search r/python for "async":

{ "subreddit": "python", "searchQuery": "async" }

Search all of Reddit for "self-hosting":

{ "searchQuery": "self-hosting" }

Output Example

{
  "id": "1ttog80",
  "title": "Text align options gone after updating",
  "author": "example_user",
  "subreddit": "Wordpress",
  "selftext": "I updated my site and suddenly the text align options on built-in blocks are gone...",
  "createdUtc": 1780310800.0,
  "createdAt": "2026-06-01T18:46:40+00:00",
  "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1ttog80/text_align_options_gone/",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1ttog80/text_align_options_gone/"
}

Use Cases

• Market research — track brand and product mentions on Reddit
• Content discovery — find fresh discussions in any niche
• Lead/question finding — surface people asking about a topic you cover
• SEO research — see what questions come up around your keywords
• Trend monitoring — watch the newest posts in a community

Notes

• Works only with public subreddits. Private, banned, or quarantined communities (and queries with no matches) simply return no posts.
• Subreddit and search terms are case-insensitive.