SubReddit Comments Search Scraper 🔍

Extract comments from Reddit search results with rich metadata and advanced filtering options.

🎯 Features

• Search and extract comments from any subreddit
• Advanced sorting options (relevance, top, new, comments, hot)
• Safe search filtering
• Configurable maximum items limit
• Rich metadata extraction

📊 Output Data Structure

Each scraped comment includes:

• Comment ID and Post ID
• Subreddit name
• Author name and profile URL
• Author avatar URL (when available)
• Creation timestamp (ISO format)
• Comment content
• Vote count
• Comment count
• Post title and URL
• Comment score

💡 Use Cases

• Market research and sentiment analysis
• Community feedback monitoring
• Content discovery
• User behavior analysis
• Competitive research
• Social media monitoring
• Academic research
• Trend identification

🔧 Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
query	String	Search keyword or phrase
subReddit	String	Target subreddit name (without 'r/')
sort	String	Sort results by: 'relevance', 'top', 'new', 'comments', or 'hot'
safeSearch	String	Enable/disable safe search ('0' for safe, '1' for unsafe)
maxItems	Integer	Maximum number of items to scrape

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

1{
2    "query": "ai",
3    "subReddit": "AppIdeas",
4    "sort": "relevance",
5    "safeSearch": "0",
6    "maxItems": 45
7}

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_lv2y3tb",
4		"post_id": "t3_1gi6v3q",
5		"subreddit": "AppIdeas",
6		"author": "tdaawg",
7		"created_time": "2024-11-02T21:30:48.658Z",
8		"score": 5,
9		"author_url": "https://www.reddit.com/user/tdaawg/",
10		"title": "What are you working on right now? Let’s share ideas!",
11		"url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/AppIdeas/comments/1gi6v3q/what_are_you_working_on_right_now_lets_share_ideas/",
12		"comment_content": "Looks cool.\n  \n    I’m working on https://appflows.ai - a free tool to help product managers and founders plan their apps.",
13		"votes": 6,
14		"comments": 16
15	},
16	{
17		"comment_id": "t1_lur9mgq",
18		"post_id": "t3_1ggiwgu",
19		"subreddit": "AppIdeas",
20		"author": "coconutappl",
21		"created_time": "2024-10-31T20:51:35.200Z",
22		"score": 7,
23		"author_url": "https://www.reddit.com/user/coconutappl/",
24		"title": "What are you building right now? Let’s share!",
25		"url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/AppIdeas/comments/1ggiwgu/what_are_you_building_right_now_lets_share/",
26		"comment_content": "not an app but i am just building free web tools on one site. i have ai, music, design, dev tools, games.\n  \n    justbuildthings.com",
27		"votes": 11,
28		"comments": 84
29	},
30    ...
31]