Reddit Search Comments Scraper

Search for Reddit comments by keyword across all subreddits, or in one subreddit. Returns comment text, the comment, post and parent IDs, a link to the comment, a link for the parent post, subreddit, author, comment upvotes, and parent post engagement metrics. Supports fetching multiple pages in a single API call (billed per page). AutoModerator comments are filtered out, and comments are matched against your query text, so a page can return fewer results than the page size. The url field points at the parent post and can be an off-site link when the post links to another domain. upvotes is null when the comment score is hidden, and post_upvotes / post_comments are null when the parent post's metrics are unavailable.

Features

• Real-time Reddit data — results are fetched live at run time, never cached or stale
• No login, cookies, or proxy configuration needed — just provide the input and run
• Each result is pushed as a separate dataset item, exportable as JSON, CSV, or Excel
• Fast: a typical run finishes in seconds

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
query	string	yes	Search query (max 500 characters)
pages	integer	no	Number of pages to fetch and merge (1-10). Billed per page.
sort_by	string	no	Sort order for results One of: most_recent, relevance, top.
subreddit	string	no	Only return comments from this subreddit, with or without r/ (e.g. Python).

Pricing

This Actor is billed per page of results — $0.003 per page.

• Results come in pages. Use the pages input to choose how many pages to fetch (1–10); more pages means more results.
• You pay $0.003 for each page you fetch, so pages: 3 costs $0.009 and pages: 1 costs $0.003.
• You’re only charged when a run succeeds, or when it fails because what you asked for was looked up and doesn’t exist, is private, or isn’t valid: that costs one page ($0.003). Other failed runs are free.

Example output

{
  "comment_id": "pfewxa0",
  "post_id": "1x3wfr5",
  "parent_id": "1x3wfr5",
  "comment_url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/TopCharacterTropes/comments/1x3wfr5/comment/pfewxa0/",
  "title": "practicalcabinet on TopCharacterTropes",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1x3wfr5",
  "date": "2026-10-12 09:25:33",
  "author": "practicalcabinet",
  "source": "Reddit (Comment)",
  "domain": "reddit.com",
  "subreddit": "TopCharacterTropes",
  "snippet": "The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog, from *Monty Python and the Holy Grail*, was actually played by a more common non-killer rabbit.\n\n![img](et5lcv7t80vh1)",
  "type": "comment",
  "upvotes": 2461,
  "post_upvotes": 12473,
  "post_comments": 1625
}

About

Maintained by Data Direct — a small suite of fast, reliable Reddit and web-data scrapers. Each actor returns clean, structured results with no login, cookies, or proxy setup required. Have a question or a custom data need? Open an issue on this actor.