# Reddit Scraper: Keyword Alerts for New Posts & Comments (`h1018y/anvil-reddit-scraper`) Actor

Scrapes Reddit for your brand or keywords and returns only the posts and comments that are new since your last run, plus new posts in chosen subreddits. A Reddit monitor for brand mentions, no login or API key.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/h1018y/anvil-reddit-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [ANVIL Tools](https://apify.com/h1018y) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Marketing
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$2.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Reddit Scraper: Keyword Alerts for New Posts & Comments

**Reddit Scraper** - Get every new Reddit post that mentions your brand or keyword - and new posts and comments in the subreddits you care about.

### What does Reddit Scraper do?

It reads Reddit's public RSS feeds, which stay open when the JSON endpoints most Reddit scrapers use get blocked, and remembers what it showed you, so each run returns only the new mentions - the top Reddit scraper fails 13% of its runs and has no 'new since last run'.

- New posts mentioning your keywords across all of Reddit
- New posts and optional new comments from chosen subreddits
- Only-new mode for daily alerts, with a baseline on the first run
- Title, text, author, subreddit, time and link in one row
- No login, cookies or Reddit API key

### Why this Reddit Scraper?

Reddit blocks its JSON endpoints for most automated traffic, so runs fail. This Reddit Scraper checks every run and tells you plainly when a page could not be read, instead of returning empty or wrong rows.

### How to use Reddit Scraper

1. Press **Start** - the form already holds an example that works.
2. Put in your own input (see the fields on the Input tab).
3. Run it once, or put it on an **Apify Schedule** to get fresh rows every day.
4. Download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or send them to Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, the Apify API or an AI agent (Apify MCP server).

#### Input example

```json
{
  "keywords": [
    "apify"
  ],
  "includeComments": false,
  "onlyNew": false,
  "maxItems": 20,
  "useApifyProxy": true
}
```

#### Output example (a real run)

```json
[
  {
    "id": "t3_1x4zmf4",
    "type": "post",
    "title": "Best Enterprise Web Scraping Services of 2026",
    "author": "olokpapi",
    "subreddit": "scrapingtheweb",
    "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/scrapingtheweb/comments/1x4zmf4/best_enterprise_web_scraping_services_of_2026/",
    "postedAt": "2026-10-13T15:25:22+00:00",
    "text": "Enterprise web scraping has changed quite a bit over the last few years where it used to be mostly about buying residential proxies from providers like bright data or oxylabs and running scrapy or puppeteer clusters and maintaining custom parsers for every website. Now a lot of enterprise scraping is used to feed LLMs, RAG vector databases and AI agents then getting the HTML is only part of the job, you also need to handle JS heavy websites and turn all that raw content into clean data without spending hours maintaining browser infra. Here's how some of the main options compare: Bright Data and Oxylabs are still strong choices if you're dealing with huge scraping volumes across different countries and already have data engineers who can build custom parsers. Their proxy infra is built for scale but you'll still need to handle much of the data cleaning and processing yourself. Firecrawl takes a different approach especially for teams building LLM and AI agent workflows where it handles JS rendering and scraping infra and returns clean markdown or structured JSON that's easier to use in an LLM pipeline. It also offers features like change monitoring and prompt injection protection. Apify is useful when you want ready made scrapers called actors for platforms like google maps, Instagram or Amazon and it's convenient for specific scraping jobs but managing actors, serverless queues and runtimes can add complexity when you're building a larger RAG pipeline across different website",
    "matched": [
      "apify"
    ],
    "status": "seen",
    "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T17:23:47+00:00"
  }
]
```

One flat row per result.

### How much does Reddit Scraper cost?

You pay only per result (pay per event) - no monthly fee, no minimum, and the price per result is lower on Apify's Bronze, Silver and Gold plans. The exact price is on the **Pricing** tab. Apify's free plan credit is enough to try it on real input.

### Also searched as

- reddit keyword alerts
- reddit monitor
- reddit brand mentions
- subreddit scraper
- reddit posts scraper

### FAQ

**Does Reddit Scraper need a login, cookies or an API key?** No. It reads public pages only.

**Can I run Reddit Scraper on a schedule?** Yes - with Apify Schedules; each run returns fresh rows.

**Can I call it from Python, JavaScript or an AI agent?** Yes - through the Apify API, the Apify client libraries or the Apify MCP server.

**Is it legal?** It collects only data anyone can see without logging in. You are responsible for using it within the source site's terms and data protection law (GDPR, CCPA).

**What if the site blocks a request?** The run retries from a fresh connection and, if it still cannot read the page, stops with a clear message - never with made-up rows.

Data source: [www.reddit.com](https://www.reddit.com)

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# Actor input Schema

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Searched across all of Reddit (newest first). With subreddits filled in, they filter those subreddits instead.

## `subreddits` (type: `array`):

Optional, e.g. webscraping or r/SaaS. Every new post is returned.

## `includeComments` (type: `boolean`):

Adds the newest comments of each subreddit.

## `onlyNew` (type: `boolean`):

Turn on for alerts. The first run is the baseline.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many rows.

## `useApifyProxy` (type: `boolean`):

Recommended: spreads requests over addresses so Reddit's rate limit is not hit.

## `proxyGroups` (type: `array`):

Optional, e.g. RESIDENTIAL.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": [
    "apify"
  ],
  "includeComments": false,
  "onlyNew": false,
  "maxItems": 20,
  "useApifyProxy": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All result rows (open as table, JSON, CSV or Excel).

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "keywords": [
        "apify"
    ],
    "maxItems": 20,
    "useApifyProxy": true
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("h1018y/anvil-reddit-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "keywords": ["apify"],
    "maxItems": 20,
    "useApifyProxy": True,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("h1018y/anvil-reddit-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "keywords": [
    "apify"
  ],
  "maxItems": 20,
  "useApifyProxy": true
}' |
apify call h1018y/anvil-reddit-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,h1018y/anvil-reddit-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/2chp1aclWMUGDFxcc/builds/GgxfxxdLFiM6PLZau/openapi.json