Reddit Scraper — Posts, Comments, Subreddits + AFINN-165 Sentiment Analysis

Scrape Reddit posts, comments, user profiles, subreddits, and search results with built-in AFINN-165 sentiment analysis (negation-aware). Nested comment threads with depth tracking, universal URL input. HTTP-only, no browser, no auth. $0.002 per result ($2 per 1,000) — 50% cheaper than the market leader.

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What is the Reddit Scraper?

The Reddit Scraper is an Apify actor that pulls structured data from Reddit at scale: posts, comments (with full nested thread tree), user profiles, subreddit listings, search queries. Every post and comment is sentiment-scored on the fly using the AFINN-165 lexicon with negation handling — no external API call, no extra cost. Universal URL input means you can drop in any Reddit URL (post, subreddit, user, search) and the actor will figure out the right scraping path.

The cleanest, cheapest way to scrape Reddit at production scale.

Use cases

• Brand monitoring — track every mention of your brand across Reddit; alert on negative sentiment spikes.
• Market research — analyze 10K comments in r/IsItScamOrLegit to understand fraud trends.
• Customer feedback mining — pull product-mention comments from r/buildapcsales, r/headphones, etc.
• AI training data — labeled Reddit datasets for sentiment, classification, RLHF fine-tuning.
• Content marketing research — find which posts in your niche ranked top for inspiration.
• Competitive intel — track competitor mentions and the sentiment around them.
• Subreddit demographics — count active users, posts/day, comment depth distribution.

Input

{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.reddit.com/r/python/comments/abc123/example_post/",
    "https://www.reddit.com/user/example_user/",
    "https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/"
  ],
  "maxResults": 500,
  "includeComments": true
}

Output

{
  "id": "t3_abc123",
  "type": "post",
  "subreddit": "python",
  "title": "Example post title",
  "author": "example_user",
  "score": 1245,
  "num_comments": 87,
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/python/comments/abc123/...",
  "selftext": "Full post body...",
  "sentiment": "positive",
  "sentiment_score": 0.42,
  "created_utc": "2026-04-25T14:30:00Z"
}

Pricing

PAY_PER_EVENT — $0.002 per result (= $2 per 1,000). 50% cheaper than competing Apify Reddit scrapers. Sentiment analysis included free.

FAQ — Reddit API alternatives

Reddit official API alternative? The Reddit API now requires OAuth + paid tier for high-volume scraping. This actor scrapes the public HTML/JSON endpoints — no auth, no quota.

Does it handle deleted/removed content? Yes — items show as [deleted] or [removed] instead of crashing.

Comment depth tracking? Yes — every comment has a depth field reflecting its position in the nested thread (root = 0).

Why AFINN-165 instead of a deep-learning model? AFINN runs in microseconds per comment with no GPU; cost stays at $0.002. For deep semantic sentiment, run downstream on the dataset.

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License: MIT · Author: dltik