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Reddit Scraper

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Reddit Scraper

Reddit Scraper

Scrape Reddit posts, comments, and subreddit data using Reddit's free JSON API. No authentication required.

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from $0.00005 / actor start

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Developer

Prince Raj

Prince Raj

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1

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19 hours ago

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Scrape Reddit posts, comments, and subreddit data using Reddit's free JSON API. No authentication required.

Features

  • Subreddit scraping: Fetch posts from any subreddit with sort options (hot, new, top, rising)
  • Post scraping: Get individual post details with full comment trees
  • User scraping: Extract a user's posts and comments
  • Pagination: Automatically paginates through results up to your specified limit
  • Rate limiting: Built-in rate limiting to respect Reddit's API limits
  • Comment extraction: Optionally include comments with configurable depth

Input

FieldTypeDefaultDescription
startUrlsarrayrequiredReddit URLs to scrape (subreddits, posts, or user pages)
sortstringhotSort order for subreddit pages (hot, new, top, rising)
timeFilterstringdayTime filter for top posts (hour, day, week, month, year, all)
maxPostsinteger100Maximum posts to scrape (1-1000)
includeCommentsbooleanfalseInclude comments for each post
maxCommentsPerPostinteger50Max comments per post (1-500)

Example URLs

  • Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming
  • Subreddit with sort: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/top
  • Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/abc123/title_here
  • User: https://www.reddit.com/user/spez

Output

Each post contains:

  • id, title, author, subreddit
  • score, upvote_ratio, num_comments
  • created_utc, url, permalink
  • selftext, is_self, domain
  • over_18, link_flair_text
  • comments (if enabled)