Reddit User Comments Scraper

Get a Reddit user's comments by username or profile URL. Sort by newest, hot, top or controversial, with a time window (past hour to all time) for top and controversial. Returns each comment's text, score, date, subreddit and permalink, plus the title and link of the post it was left on, 25 per page, up to about 1,000 comments. 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
username	string	no	Reddit username, with or without u/ (3-20 characters). Provide exactly one of username or url.
url	string	no	Reddit profile URL, e.g. https://www.reddit.com/user/spez (max 500 characters). Provide exactly one of username or url.
sort_by	string	no	Sort order: most_recent, hot, top, or controversial (default: most_recent) One of: most_recent, hot, top, controversial.
posted_ago	string	no	Time window for sort_by=top or sort_by=controversial: 1h, 24h, 7d, 30d, 12m, or all (default: all). Rejected with any other sort_by. One of: 1h, 24h, 7d, 30d, 12m, all.
pages	integer	no	Number of pages to fetch, 1-40 (default: 1). Each page returns up to 25 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 (1–40); 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": "p1wosm9",
  "post_id": "1vgbkge",
  "parent_id": "p1wd2fi",
  "text": "That was the thinking. Otherwise it would be easier to just replicate the UI. ",
  "author": "spez",
  "author_url": "https://www.reddit.com/user/spez",
  "upvotes": 14,
  "date": "2026-08-05 18:31:50",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/u_spez/comments/1vgbkge/modernizing_reddits_infrastructure_with_you/p1wosm9/",
  "subreddit": "u_spez",
  "is_submitter": true,
  "stickied": false,
  "edited": false,
  "source": "Reddit",
  "domain": "reddit.com",
  "post_title": "Modernizing Reddit\u2019s infrastructure with you",
  "post_url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/u_spez/comments/1vgbkge/modernizing_reddits_infrastructure_with_you/"
}

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.