Reddit Post Comments Scraper

Get the comments on a Reddit post, replies included, by URL or post ID. Comments come in thread order (each followed by its replies), with depth, parent ID, text, author, score, date, permalink and submitter/pinned/edited flags. Sort by top, best, newest, controversial, oldest or Q&A. Up to about 500 comments per thread. 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
url	string	no	Reddit post URL, e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1wwv97o/my_python_magic_is_gone/ or https://redd.it/1wwv97o (max 500 characters). Provide exactly one of url or post_id.
post_id	string	no	Reddit post ID, e.g. 1wwv97o (a t3_ prefix is accepted). Provide exactly one of url or post_id.
sort_by	string	no	Sort order: top, best (Reddit's default order), most_recent, controversial, oldest, or qa (Q&A) (default: top) One of: top, best, most_recent, controversial, oldest, qa.
pages	integer	no	Number of pages to fetch, 1-10 (default: 1). Each page returns up to 50 comments.

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": "pdo5esc",
  "post_id": "1wwv97o",
  "parent_id": "pdo3akk",
  "text": "It\u2019s slightly different (worse) than that because incorporating AI properly can both speed you up -and- give a better final product. Whereas for the artist t...",
  "author": "SirPitchalot",
  "author_url": "https://www.reddit.com/user/SirPitchalot",
  "upvotes": 104,
  "date": "2026-10-03 19:38:31",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1wwv97o/my_python_magic_is_gone/pdo5esc/",
  "subreddit": "Python",
  "is_submitter": false,
  "stickied": false,
  "edited": true,
  "source": "Reddit",
  "domain": "reddit.com",
  "depth": 1
}

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.