Reddit Scraper: Posts, Comments, Search & Monitoring

This Reddit scraper collects Reddit posts and comments from any subreddit, from Reddit search (all of Reddit or inside one subreddit) and from post links. Every post comes with score, upvote ratio, comments count, flair, author, time, text, link and thumbnail, and comments come as full threads with author, text, score, depth and parent. A built-in only-new monitoring mode turns it into a daily brand, competitor or keyword alert, with no login and no Reddit API key.

What you can use it for

• Reddit brand monitoring: search your brand or product every day and get only the posts you have not seen yet.
• Subreddit scraping for market research: see what people ask, complain about and recommend in your niche.
• Lead generation: search Reddit for people asking for the kind of tool or service you sell.
• Reddit comments for AI and NLP datasets: clean post and comment text for training, RAG, sentiment and topic analysis.
• Content research: top posts by subreddit and time range, with scores and comment counts.

How to use

1. Open the Reddit Scraper page and click Try for free (you sign in to your Apify account).
2. Add subreddits, search keywords or post links.
3. Pick a sort and time range, and turn on Include comments if you want comment threads.
4. Click Start. Posts and comments appear in the Output tab.
5. Export as JSON, CSV or Excel.

API: POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/himanshu-data~reddit-posts-comments-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN> with the input as JSON in the body returns the rows in one call.

Input

Field	What it does
Subreddits	Names or links, e.g. india, r/startups.
Subreddit sort	Hot, New, Top or Rising.
Search Reddit	Keywords or phrases.
Search only inside this subreddit	Leave empty to search all of Reddit.
Search sort	Relevance, New, Top or Most comments.
Time range	Past hour to all time, for Top and for search.
Post links	Scrape specific posts directly.
Max posts per subreddit or search	About 24 posts per page.
Include comments	Opens each post and adds its comments as extra rows (also fills in the full text of search results).
Max comments per post	Best comments first, replies included.
Only posts after	Skip older posts.
Only new posts	Monitoring mode: returns only posts it has not returned before. With New sort it stops at the first known post.

{
  "subreddits": ["india", "startups"],
  "sort": "top",
  "timeFilter": "week",
  "searchQueries": ["iphone 17"],
  "maxPostsPerSource": 50,
  "includeComments": true,
  "maxCommentsPerPost": 30
}

Output

Posts and comments in one dataset, marked by type (real output, October 2026; text shortened).

A post:

{
  "type": "post",
  "id": "1x9u1kp",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/1x9u1kp/what_is_it_like_to_dial_100112_honestly_my/",
  "title": "What is it like to dial 100/112? Honestly, my experience was amazing.",
  "text": "I'm not sure how responsive 911 is in the US, but my experience with India's 112 emergency helpline was genuinely amazing...",
  "author": "akki_kumar4",
  "subreddit": "india",
  "score": 714,
  "upvoteRatio": 0.979,
  "commentsCount": 36,
  "createdAt": "2026-10-19T11:13:07.656Z",
  "postType": "text",
  "flair": "Law & Courts",
  "awards": 1,
  "rank": 8,
  "source": "r/india"
}

A comment:

{
  "type": "comment",
  "id": "phu9ewh",
  "postId": "1xajajk",
  "parentId": "phu6c79",
  "parentType": "comment",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/AppleIndia/comments/1xajajk/comment/phu9ewh/",
  "author": "GoodatNothing23",
  "text": "Still it doesn’t matter bro , once you unbox it price drops",
  "score": 1,
  "depth": 2,
  "createdAt": "2026-10-20T05:35:19.593Z",
  "subreddit": "AppleIndia",
  "postTitle": "iPhone 17 pro silver 256GB with CC 6",
  "source": "search: iphone 17"
}

Link posts carry link, domain and thumbnail instead of text. Search results include text when Include comments is on, because the full text lives on the post page.

Monitoring (only new posts)

Turn on Only new posts, pick New sort, and schedule the Actor (for example every morning). Each run returns just the posts it has not returned before, so you can send them to Slack, email, Google Sheets or a CRM through Apify integrations, Make, n8n or Zapier. Use a different Monitor name for each separate monitor.

Pricing

$2 per 1,000 results (a result is one post or one comment) on paid Apify plans, less on Scale and Business. Set a spending limit per run and the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached.

Integrations

• Apify API to start runs and read posts and comments from any language.
• Python and JavaScript clients (apify-client) for scripts, notebooks and pipelines.
• Zapier, Make and n8n to send new posts to Slack, email, Google Sheets or a CRM.
• MCP for AI agents: connect the Apify MCP server to Claude, ChatGPT or another MCP client and the agent can read Reddit through this Actor.
• Schedules and webhooks in Apify Console for daily or hourly monitoring.

FAQ

Do I need a Reddit account or a Reddit API key? No. You only need an Apify account. You never create a Reddit app or enter Reddit credentials.

How many posts and comments can I get? Up to 10,000 posts per subreddit or search, and up to 10,000 comments per post. Reddit serves about 24 posts per page, so big runs take longer.

Why did I get fewer posts than I asked for? Reddit lists only so many posts for one subreddit sort or search, and Only posts after, Only new posts and the time range skip older posts. NSFW posts are left out unless you turn them on. Try another sort, a wider time range, or several narrower searches.

How do comments affect the cost? Each comment is one result. 50 posts with 30 comments each is about 1,550 results.

Can I schedule it as a Reddit monitor? Yes. Turn on Only new posts, use New sort, and create a daily schedule in Apify Console. For keyword alerts with a matched snippet, see Reddit Keyword Monitor.

Which export formats are there? JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, HTML and JSONL from the dataset, or the API.

Is it legal to scrape Reddit? The Actor collects only public posts and comments. Follow Reddit's terms and the laws where you live, and take care with personal data such as usernames (for example under GDPR). This is not legal advice.

Tips

• For the latest posts on a topic, use search with New sort and Only new posts.
• Residential proxies are on by default because Reddit blocks data-center IPs.