Reddit Trending Posts Scraper

Get the posts trending across Reddit right now, from r/popular (worldwide or one country's) or r/all. Sort by hot, new, top, rising or controversial, with a time window (past hour to all time) for top and controversial. Returns title, text, subreddit, author, date, score, upvote ratio, comment count, flair, shared link and video/gallery links for each post, 25 per page, up to about 500 posts. 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
sort_by	string	no	Sort order: hot, most_recent, top, rising, or controversial (default: hot) One of: hot, most_recent, top, rising, controversial.
posted_ago	string	no	Time window for sort_by=top or sort_by=controversial: 1h, 24h, 7d, 30d, 12m, or all (default: 24h). Rejected with any other sort_by. One of: 1h, 24h, 7d, 30d, 12m, all.
feed	string	no	popular (r/popular: the most active posts in public, non-NSFW communities) or all (r/all: every community) (default: popular) One of: popular, all.
country	string	no	One country's r/popular, as on reddit.com: AR, AU, BG, CA, CL, CO, CZ, DE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IN, IS, IT, JP, MX, MY, NZ, PH, PL, PR, PT, RO, RS, SE, SG, TH, TR, TW or US (default: worldwide). Only with feed=popular. One of: AR, AU, BG, CA, CL, CO, CZ, DE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IN, IS, IT, JP, MX, MY, NZ, PH, PL, PR, PT, RO, RS, SE, SG, TH, TR, TW, US.
pages	integer	no	Number of pages to fetch, 1-20 (default: 1). Each page returns up to 25 posts.

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 (1–20); 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

{
  "post_id": "1x91fou",
  "title": "Tommy asked a question. Abdul El-Sayed answered and no one physically harmed Tommy.",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackPeopleofReddit/comments/1x91fou/tommy_asked_a_question_abdul_elsayed_answered_and/",
  "date": "2026-10-18 11:58:02",
  "author": "Damiana1111",
  "author_url": "https://www.reddit.com/user/Damiana1111",
  "source": "Reddit",
  "domain": "reddit.com",
  "snippet": "**\"Answer the question, Tommy. Everybody knows the answer to it.\"**",
  "subreddit": "BlackPeopleofReddit",
  "upvotes": 12357,
  "upvote_ratio": 0.98,
  "comments": 871,
  "crossposts": 11,
  "flair": "Politics",
  "link_url": "https://v.redd.it/2krz9t3ht7wh1",
  "thumbnail": "https://external-preview.redd.it/MDU3ZnhwMmh0N3doMVwiL369t9IGvDaBgYRPof2vTwA6JFUwNQ-nlvrN4aju.png?width=140&height=140&crop=1:1,smart&format=jpg&auto=webp&s=dd43b4c3a370f0dbcf009a0de277bacdbd839ccc",
  "is_video": true,
  "nsfw": false,
  "spoiler": false,
  "locked": false,
  "stickied": false,
  "video_url": "https://v.redd.it/2krz9t3ht7wh1/CMAF_480.mp4?source=fallback",
  "video_hls_url": "https://v.redd.it/2krz9t3ht7wh1/HLSPlaylist.m3u8?a=1794925761%2COGE5NGZlNjIxNzhkYmE4Y2ZiMzU1MDU3NmIzNDViMGJjNzZjZWU5MTkyMjEzYWMxM2EwM2Y4N2JiOWQ3ZTdjZQ%3D%3D&v=1&f=sd",
  "images": []
}

About

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