Reddit Scraper: Posts, Comments, Search & Users

What does Reddit Scraper do?

Reddit Scraper gets Reddit posts, comments, users and subreddits from any Reddit URL, search term, subreddit or username: score, upvote ratio, comment count, full text, flair, images and video, and comment threads with replies (up to your per-post cap). No login, no browser, no cookies.

• Fast: the first row lands about 2 seconds after the start (median 2.2 s in 10 prefilled runs on Oct 20, 2026), and the prefilled run (100 results) finishes in about 6 seconds (median; 4 to 19 s).
• Runs finish: all 16 runs in the last 30 days succeeded (Apify's public count, Oct 20, 2026). The most-used Reddit scraper on the Store succeeded in 87.5% of its 337,696 runs in the same 30 days: about 1 in 8 did not.
• One price for every row: $0.99 per 1,000 results on Starter, whether the result is a post, a comment, a user or a community. No start fee, and you pay only for results you get.

These are real rows from the prefilled run (search "crm recommendation", past year, 20 posts with 4 comments each):

Post	Community	Score	Comments	Posted
HELP! What CRM do you recommend?	r/CRM	12	100	2026-06-02
Looking for a new CRM platform. Any recommendations?	r/CRMSoftware	17	76	2026-07-07
Which CRM would you recommend for our small business?	r/CRM	16	94	2026-05-07
CRM recommendations for a small service based business	r/CRM	8	61	2026-08-09
CRM Recommendations for Small Tech Startup that values customer exp...	r/CRM	18	78	2026-06-04

What can you scrape from Reddit?

• Subreddits: hot, new, top, rising or controversial posts, any period.
• Search: posts for any words (all of Reddit or one subreddit), comments that use your words anywhere on Reddit, plus communities (with their rules) and users.
• Posts by URL: the post, plus its comments when Include comments is on, up to Max comments per post (replies included, with depth, parentId, rootCommentId and numberOfReplies on every comment).
• Users: profile (karma, account age, verification, moderator), their posts and their comments (/user/<name>/comments/ links work too).
• Any Reddit link: paste subreddit, post, user, search or front-page URLs into one list.

Filters: posted after or before a date (or "7 days"), minimum score, NSFW on or off, and for searches Match (every word, or the exact phrase, in the post's title and text or the comment). Filtered-out posts aren't charged.

Use cases

• Lead generation: find people asking for a tool like yours ("crm recommendation", "alternative to X") and read what they need in the comments.
• Market and product research: collect what a community says about a product, a competitor or a problem, with scores to see what resonates.
• Brand and topic monitoring: run a search or a subreddit on a schedule with Posted after set to "1 day" to get only what's new.
• Datasets for AI and analysis: whole comment threads with depth, parentId and rootCommentId, ready to rebuild conversations.
• Community and creator research: subreddit size, age and rules; user karma, account age and post history.

How much does it cost to scrape Reddit?

You pay per result in your dataset: a post, a comment, a user or a community, all at the same price.

Apify plan	Price per 1,000 results
Free	$1.09
Starter	$0.99
Scale	$0.89
Business	$0.79

Each post, comment, user or community is charged once per run, even when several of your inputs find it. There's no start fee, and the run stops at your spending limit.

Input

The prefill searches Reddit for "crm recommendation" (past year) and reads 20 posts with 4 comments each. To change it:

• Reddit URLs: any subreddit, post, user or search link.
• Search terms: one per line; choose posts, comments, communities or users in Search for.
• Include comments and Max comments per post: up to 100,000 comments per post. Reddit's first answer comes in its own order (Best, Top, New, Controversial, Old or Q&A); on big threads the rest follow as they're read: 1,000 comments of a 4,277-comment thread took a 21 s run on 2026-10-19 (very large asks take longer).
• Max posts per source: per URL, search term, subreddit or user. Reddit lists about 1,000 posts per subreddit sort and about 250 per search sort; Maximize coverage reads a search in more sorts and periods and merges them without duplicates.
• Max results (total): a cap for the whole run, every source, post, comment, user and community counted together. Leave it empty for no total cap.
• Below the first screen: Subreddits and users (names instead of URLs, sort and period, what to get per user), Search options (sort, period, one subreddit only, Match, Maximize coverage), Filters (dates, minimum score, NSFW) and Advanced (comment depth and sort, proxy).

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/smallbusiness/top/?t=week" }],
  "searches": ["best crm for startups"],
  "includeComments": true,
  "maxCommentsPerPost": 50,
  "maxItemsPerSource": 100,
  "postedAfter": "30 days"
}

Output

Every row goes to one dataset, where dataType says what it is: post, comment, user or community. The Output tab shows them all together, plus one table each for posts (with a stats view), comments, users and communities. Those tables are free copies: each row is charged once. Download as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read it through the Apify API.

A comment row (prefilled run, shortened):

{
  "dataType": "comment",
  "id": "t1_opbsaek",
  "upVotes": 4,
  "createdAt": "2026-06-02T14:42:48Z",
  "depth": 0,
  "parentId": "t3_1tupsg7",
  "postId": "t3_1tupsg7",
  "postTitle": "HELP! What CRM do you recommend?",
  "communityName": "r/CRM"
}

Post fields (101): id, url, title, body, communityName, username, upVotes, upvoteRatio, commentsCount, createdAt, flair, postType, contentUrl, domain, imageUrls, videoUrl, thumbnail, over18, ageHours, scorePerHour, commentsPerHour, engagementTotal, wordCount, bodyHtml, subredditSubscribers, authorId, authorFlairText, editedAt, isSelf, isVideo, isGallery, isDeletedOrRemoved, spoiler, locked, stickied, isAd, numCrossposts, numDuplicates (filled when Include comments is on: it's only on the post's own page), crosspostParentUrl, galleryImages, galleryCaptions, mediaAssets, embed, media, preview, permalink, oldRedditUrl, shortUrl and more.

Comment fields (61): id, url, body, username, upVotes, createdAt, depth, parentId, parentKind, rootCommentId, postId, postTitle, postUrl, postUpVotes, postCommentsCount, postCreatedAt, postAuthor, communityName, numberOfReplies, isSubmitter, controversiality, edited, stickied, bodyHtml and more.

User fields (37): username, totalKarma, postKarma, commentKarma, createdAt, accountAgeDays, iconUrl, snoovatarImg, previousNames, profileVisibility, isVerified, isMod, isEmployee, description and more. Community fields (53): communityName, title, subscribers, weeklyActiveUsers and weeklyContributions (the weekly visitors and contributions Reddit shows on the community's page), onlineUsersCount (filled when Reddit sends it; its logged-out data has no online count today, so it is usually empty), whitelistStatus (Reddit's ad status: all_ads, some_ads, house_only or promo_adult_nsfw), description, descriptionHtml, headerTitle, rules (name, description, kind and report reason of each rule), createdAt, over18, language, iconUrl, headerImage, restrictCommenting, spoilersEnabled, linkFlairEnabled, suggestedCommentSort and more.

Every row also has input (which of your inputs found it) and scrapedAt (when its page was read). Run totals, per-input counts and anything not found are in the run's OUTPUT record.

Is it legal to scrape Reddit?

This Actor reads only public Reddit content that anyone can see without logging in. It doesn't log in and doesn't touch private or quarantined communities. If your results include personal data, you're responsible for handling it lawfully (for example under GDPR).

FAQ

What if Reddit fails in the middle of a thread? Each call is tried up to 5 times, each time from a new IP. If one still fails, the comments read so far stay in your dataset, and the run's status and OUTPUT (commentsIncomplete) list the posts whose threads stopped early.

Can it search comments? Yes: set Search for to Comments, or paste a Reddit search link with type=comments. It reads Reddit's own comment search (relevance, new or top) and fills each comment in with its full record: author, score, time, parent, post and community. Search only in this subreddit uses Reddit's own subreddit search (and each row is checked again). Reddit's comment search has no period of its own, so Search period and Posted after/before are applied to what it returns: other comments are skipped and free, you pay only for the rows you get. A narrow period over a broad word reads more pages to find matches (it gives up after 15 pages in a row with none), so use sort New with a short period. Same price as any other row, no residential proxy needed.

Why fewer posts than I asked for? Reddit itself stops a subreddit sort at about 1,000 posts and a search sort at about 250. Use other sorts and periods, or Maximize coverage for searches.

Is it fast? Results arrive page by page as Reddit answers, and the next page is already being read while one is saved. In our runs on Apify (256 MB, datacenter proxy, October 20, 2026, builds 0.1.27 and 0.1.28) the first row came about 2 seconds after the Actor started, and memory peaked at 115 MB:

Run	Results	Time
The prefill: search "crm recommendation", 20 posts with 4 comments each	100	6 s (median of 10 runs; 4 to 19 s)
r/Python, newest, 1,000 posts asked (Reddit lists 951)	951	46 s (first row at 1.6 s)

Most of a big subreddit run is Reddit's own answer time: it serves one 100-post page at a time, about 3 seconds each in that run (30 of its 46 seconds), and each page needs the one before it.

Does my Apify plan matter? Only for very large runs. Reddit allows 100 requests per IP every 10 minutes, and the run uses your plan's datacenter proxy IPs: 5 on the Free plan (about 500 requests, or 50,000 posts, per 10 minutes), 30 or more on paid plans. When every IP has used its 100, the run pauses until Reddit's window resets and says so in its status, then carries on. If the pause would run past your run's timeout, it stops just before it and keeps every row it collected.

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