Reddit Search Comments Scraper

Search for Reddit comments by keyword across all subreddits. Returns comment text, parent post URL, subreddit, author, comment upvotes, and parent post engagement metrics. Supports fetching multiple pages in a single API call (billed per page).

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 (1-5). Billed per page.
sort_by	string	no	Sort order for results One of: most_recent, relevance, top.

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 (1–5); 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. Failed runs are free.

Example output

{
  "count": 18,
  "pages": 1,
  "posts": [
    {
      "author": "Lawsoffire",
      "date": "2026-04-04 21:12:30",
      "domain": "reddit.com",
      "snippet": "In the context of a post-2023 world, I really don't feel that a program doing what its programmed to, but now the input and output is somewhat dynamic qualifies on anywhere near the same linguistic scale as anything after the initial release of ChatGPT. I mean, sure, you can call them both artificial intelligence. But it must be recognized that they practically have nothing to do with each other under the hood.",
      "source": "Reddit (Comment)",
      "subreddit": "pcgaming",
      "title": "Lawsoffire on pcgaming",
      "type": "comment",
      "upvotes": 87,
      "post_upvotes": 2341,
      "post_comments": 312,
      "url": "https://www.gamespot.com/articles/nothing-in-our-games-will-be-ai-generated-ever-says-warframe-director/1100-6539194/"
    },
    {
      "author": "LiquidAether",
      "date": "2026-04-04 21:07:13",
      "domain": "reddit.com",
      "snippet": "LLMs are basically unrelated to actual artificial intelligence. And breakthroughs in that direction will have to come from a different source.",
      "source": "Reddit (Comment)",
      "subreddit": "movies",
      "title": "LiquidAether on movies",
      "type": "comment",
      "upvotes": 42,
      "post_upvotes": 1850,
      "post_comments": 274,
      "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1scjg3o/movie_plots_that_are_uncomfortably_close_to/"
    },
    {
      "author": "sajberhippien",
      "date": "2026-04-04 21:01:44",
      "domain": "reddit.com",
      "snippet": "> There is actually value in not claiming every stupid automation is in some way artificial intelligence. Windmills are automation, and noone is claimin
  ... (truncated)

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