Reddit Media Downloader 🎥

A powerful Apify actor that helps you download media content (videos, GIFs, images) from Reddit posts. Perfect for content creators, researchers, and Reddit enthusiasts! 🚀

Features ✨

• 📹 Downloads high-quality videos from Reddit posts (including v.redd.it links)
• 🎵 Extracts both video and audio streams
• 🖼️ Supports multiple media formats (MP4, GIF, JPG, etc.)
• 📊 Provides detailed media information (resolution, codec, bandwidth, etc.)
• ⚡ Fast and efficient processing
• 🔄 Handles multiple Reddit URLs in a single run

Input Parameters 📝

The actor accepts the following input parameters:

• links: Array of Reddit post URLs to process (Required)

Output 📤

For each processed URL, the actor returns:

• Original Reddit post URL
• Direct media URLs with quality options
• Media metadata (resolution, format, size)
• Audio stream URL (if available)
• Processing status and any error messages

Use Cases 💡

• Content curation and archiving
• Social media management
• Research and data collection
• Personal media collection

Limitations ⚠️

• Only works with public Reddit posts
• Rate limiting may apply based on Reddit's API restrictions
• Some media formats might not be supported

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

1{
2    "links": [
3        "https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1iic23b/who_said_ai_videos_cant_do_physics/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button"
4    ]
5}

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        "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1iic23b/who_said_ai_videos_cant_do_physics/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button",
4        "result": {
5            "url": "https://v.redd.it/uxn87kbz5che1",
6            "source": "redit",
7            "title": "Who said AI videos can’t do physics?",
8            "thumbnail": "https://external-preview.redd.it/b2NyZWxzYXo1Y2hlMcdb_ntvmybgj68gq5AmSOZoZJOoXrdUbVjaw7jWCz9f.png?width=140&height=140&crop=140:140,smart&format=jpg&v=enabled&lthumb=true&s=ccf3c8760a8b947a02ec70082e259615006d0e2f",
9            "medias": [
10                {
11                    "type": "video",
12                    "maxquality": false,
13                    "quality": "220p",
14                    "url": "https://v.redd.it/uxn87kbz5che1/DASH_220.mp4",
15                    "info": {
16                        "bandwidth": "235138",
17                        "codecs": "avc1.4d401e",
18                        "frameRate": "15360/512",
19                        "height": "392",
20                        "id": "1",
21                        "mimeType": "video/mp4",
22                        "width": "220"
23                    },
24                    "extension": "mp4"
25                },
26                {
27                    "type": "video",
28                    "maxquality": false,
29                    "quality": "270p",
30                    "url": "https://v.redd.it/uxn87kbz5che1/DASH_270.mp4",
31                    "info": {
32                        "bandwidth": "417026",
33                        "codecs": "avc1.4d401e",
34                        "frameRate": "15360/512",
35                        "height": "480",
36                        "id": "2",
37                        "mimeType": "video/mp4",
38                        "width": "270"
39                    },
40                    "extension": "mp4"
41                },
42                {
43                    "type": "video",
44                    "maxquality": false,
45                    "quality": "360p",
46                    "url": "https://v.redd.it/uxn87kbz5che1/DASH_360.mp4",
47                    "info": {
48                        "bandwidth": "693810",
49                        "codecs": "avc1.4d401e",
50                        "frameRate": "15360/512",
51                        "height": "640",
52                        "id": "3",
53                        "mimeType": "video/mp4",
54                        "width": "360"
55                    },
56                    "extension": "mp4"
57                },
58                {
59                    "type": "video",
60                    "maxquality": false,
61                    "quality": "480p",
62                    "url": "https://v.redd.it/uxn87kbz5che1/DASH_480.mp4",
63                    "info": {
64                        "bandwidth": "1133992",
65                        "codecs": "avc1.4d401f",
66                        "frameRate": "15360/512",
67                        "height": "854",
68                        "id": "4",
69                        "mimeType": "video/mp4",
70                        "width": "480"
71                    },
72                    "extension": "mp4"
73                },
74                {
75                    "type": "video",
76                    "maxquality": false,
77                    "quality": "720p",
78                    "url": "https://v.redd.it/uxn87kbz5che1/DASH_720.mp4",
79                    "info": {
80                        "bandwidth": "1865362",
81                        "codecs": "avc1.4d401f",
82                        "frameRate": "15360/512",
83                        "height": "1280",
84                        "id": "5",
85                        "mimeType": "video/mp4",
86                        "width": "720"
87                    },
88                    "extension": "mp4"
89                },
90                {
91                    "type": "audio",
92                    "url": "https://v.redd.it/uxn87kbz5che1/DASH_AUDIO_128.mp4",
93                    "quality": "audio",
94                    "info": {
95                        "contentType": "audio",
96                        "id": "1",
97                        "segmentAlignment": "true",
98                        "startWithSAP": "1",
99                        "subsegmentAlignment": "true",
100                        "subsegmentStartsWithSAP": "1"
101                    },
102                    "extension": "mp3"
103                }
104            ],
105            "type": "multiple",
106            "error": false,
107            "time_end": 1456
108        }
109    }
110]