Reddit Scraper (no login · no API key)

Scrape Reddit posts, comments, and keyword-search results from any subreddit — with full comment trees (author, score, timestamps) and post selftext. No login, no API key. Clean, flat output ready for JSON / CSV / Excel.

What it does

• Feeds — pull new / hot / rising / top from any list of subreddits.
• Search — keyword queries across all of Reddit, or restricted to your subreddits.
• Comments — expand comment trees per post (nested replies, with depth + parentId), plus the post's selftext, with caps to keep runs cheap.
• Clean, flat output — one record per post and per comment, with author, score, comment count, timestamps, and canonical reddit.com links.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Notes
subreddits	string[]	–	Names with or without r/.
searchQueries	string[]	–	Keyword searches.
restrictSearchToSubreddits	bool	false	Run each query inside every listed subreddit instead of all of Reddit.
sort	enum	new	Feed sort: new/hot/rising/top.
searchSort	enum	relevance	relevance/hot/top/new/comments.
time	enum	month	Window for top feeds & searches.
maxPostsPerSource	int	25	Posts to fetch per subreddit feed / per search query.
includeComments	bool	true	Fetch selftext + comment trees.
maxCommentsPerPost	int	50	0 disables comments.
maxCommentPosts	int	10	Only the first N posts get comments expanded (and selftext fetched).
requestDelaySecs	number	1.0	Politeness delay between requests.
proxyConfiguration	proxy	RESIDENTIAL	See Proxies below.

At least one of subreddits / searchQueries is required.

Example input

{
  "subreddits": ["AskUK", "CasualUK"],
  "searchQueries": ["window cleaner", "carpet cleaning"],
  "sort": "new",
  "maxPostsPerSource": 25,
  "includeComments": true,
  "maxCommentsPerPost": 50,
  "maxCommentPosts": 10,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}

Output

Posts and comments are pushed to the default dataset. See sample-output.json for a real captured sample. Shapes:

// post
{
  "type": "post", "id": "abc123", "fullId": "t3_abc123",
  "subreddit": "r/AskUK", "subredditId": "t5_2t4s3",
  "title": "Need a window cleaner", "text": "Anyone recommend one in Leeds?",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/comments/abc123/...",
  "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/comments/abc123/...",
  "author": "jane_doe", "authorId": "t2_xyz",
  "createdAt": "2026-06-10T06:13:20Z", "createdUtc": 1781490961,
  "score": 42, "numComments": 16, "domain": "self.AskUK", "over18": false
}
// comment
{
  "type": "comment", "id": "c2", "fullId": "t1_c2",
  "postId": "t3_abc123", "parentId": "t1_c1", "depth": 1,
  "subreddit": "r/AskUK", "body": "+1 for SparkleClean",
  "author": "sue", "authorId": "t2_sue",
  "createdAt": "2026-06-10T06:16:40Z", "score": 3,
  "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/comments/abc123/_/c2/"
}

Proxies

Reddit blocks shared cloud IPs, so the actor needs an IP it'll accept:

• Paid Apify plan: leave the default {"useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]} — it just works. The actor rotates the IP per source.
• Free plan: Apify residential isn't available, so supply your own under Proxy configuration → Custom proxies. Any residential proxy provider works:

  { "useApifyProxy": false, "proxyUrls": ["http://USER:PASS@gate.provider.com:PORT"] }
  

• For higher volume, raise requestDelaySecs and use more proxy IPs.

Reliability

• Built-in rate limiting with automatic back-off and retry on throttling / transient errors (honours Retry-After).
• A genuinely failed fetch raises rather than silently reporting 0 results.
• If one subreddit/query fails, it's logged and the run continues with the rest.

Legal / ethics

Collects public Reddit data only. Respect Reddit's Terms, rate limits, and applicable law; don't use it to harvest personal data for spam. Deleted/removed content ([deleted] / [removed]) is dropped automatically.