Reddit Comments Search Scraper 🔍

Extract Reddit comments matching your search query with rich metadata and context information.

🌟 Features

• Search comments across all Reddit communities
• Multiple sorting options (relevance, top, new, hot)
• Safe search filtering
• Rich metadata extraction
• Support for text, image, and video content

📊 Output Structure

Each comment includes:

• Unique identifiers (comment_id)
• Timestamps and scores
• Full comment content (text/image/video)
• Complete post context
• Subreddit information
• Author details
• Position in search results

💡 Use Cases

• Content Research
• Sentiment Analysis
• Market Research
• Brand Monitoring
• Trend Analysis
• Academic Research
• Community Engagement Analysis
• Competition Analysis

🔧 Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
query	String	Search term for finding comments
sort	String	Sort order (relevance, top, new, hot)
safeSearch	String	Enable/disable safe search (0/1)
maxItems	Integer	Maximum number of comments to extract
proxyConfiguration	Object	Optional proxy settings

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

1{
2    "query": "ai",
3    "sort": "relevance",
4    "safeSearch": "0",
5    "maxItems": 30
6}

Output sample

The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can always find in the Storage tab. Here's an excerpt from the data you'd get if you apply the input parameters above:

And here is the same data but in JSON. You can choose in which format to download your data: JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML.

1[
2	{
3		"comment_id": "t1_lv3xjmh",
4		"created_timestamp": "2024-11-03T01:01:24.184Z",
5		"score": 5482,
6		"post": {
7			"id": "t3_1gib0zq",
8			"title": "What happened to yt man",
9			"created_timestamp": "2024-11-03T00:44:45.398Z",
10			"nsfw": false,
11			"spoiler": false,
12			"comment_count": 73,
13			"score": 21832,
14			"url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/whenthe/comments/1gib0zq/what_happened_to_yt_man/"
15		},
16		"subreddit": {
17			"id": "t5_23gidu",
18			"name": "whenthe",
19			"icon_url": "https://styles.redditmedia.com/t5_23gidu/styles/communityIcon_jqqsutrm3s6b1.png"
20		},
21		"author": {
22			"id": "t2_e426ta4j",
23			"name": "WarCrimesAreBased",
24			"nsfw": false
25		},
26		"position": 0,
27		"contentText": "How YouTube felt after demonotizing channels that aren't intended for kids for not being family friendly while allowing softcore porn ai ads and lewd YouTube kids content to slip through:",
28		"content_type": "image",
29		"contentImage": ""
30	},
31	{
32		"comment_id": "t1_luzxb80",
33		"created_timestamp": "2024-11-02T10:28:38.570Z",
34		"score": 6114,
35		"post": {
36			"id": "t3_1ghten8",
37			"title": "Louis Armstrong autographs a French punk’s head, 1961.",
38			"created_timestamp": "2024-11-02T10:23:03.149Z",
39			"nsfw": false,
40			"spoiler": false,
41			"comment_count": 478,
42			"score": 35408,
43			"url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1ghten8/louis_armstrong_autographs_a_french_punks_head/"
44		},
45		"subreddit": {
46			"id": "t5_2qh4j",
47			"name": "europe",
48			"icon_url": "https://styles.redditmedia.com/t5_2qh4j/styles/communityIcon_jxbrkfsppv481.png"
49		},
50		"author": {
51			"id": "t2_4dhp4rs8",
52			"name": "SgtSenex",
53			"nsfw": false
54		},
55		"position": 1,
56		"contentText": "Fuck i thought it was some ai picture of Elon Musk",
57		"content_type": "text"
58	},
59    ...
60]