Reddit Search Scraper 🔎🚀

Search Reddit at scale and export clean JSON for posts, comments, media, users, or communities. Built for speed, reliability, and easy pagination.

Why this scraper

• Focused search: Query sitewide or within a subreddit with precise filters.
• Clean JSON: Unwanted fields are removed automatically for analytics‑ready data.
• Reliable: Retries and key rotation reduce transient errors.
• Apify‑native: Simple inputs, datasets, schedules, and exports.

What you can do

• Keyword discovery: Find trending posts or comments for any topic.
• Subreddit research: Limit to a community and sort by top, new, etc.
• Pipelines: Feed BI dashboards, monitoring, or enrichment workflows.

Input parameters

Key	Type	Editor	Default	Notes
search	string	textfield	—	Required. The search query (e.g., funny, ai news).
subreddit	string	textfield	—	Optional. Limit results to a subreddit (e.g., funny). Leave empty for sitewide.
filter	string	select	posts	The type of content to filter (posts, comments, media, users, communities). Users and communities are available sitewide only.
sortType	string	select	relevance	Sorting type (relevance, hot, top, new, comments).
timeFilter	string	select	all	Time window (hour, day, week, month, year, all).
cursor	string	textfield	—	Pagination cursor for next page, e.g. t3_1btflsp. Copy from output and paste here to continue.

Quick start ✅

1) Basic search

{
  "search": "funny",
  "filter": "posts",
  "sortType": "relevance",
  "timeFilter": "all"
}

2) Limit to a subreddit

{
  "search": "funny",
  "subreddit": "funny",
  "filter": "posts",
  "sortType": "top",
  "timeFilter": "week"
}

3) Paginate with cursor ⏭️

1. Run the actor without cursor to get the first page.
2. In the dataset output, find the cursor value in the payload.
3. Copy that string (e.g., t3_1btflsp).
4. Paste it into the cursor input and run again to fetch the next page.

{
  "search": "funny",
  "subreddit": "funny",
  "filter": "posts",
  "sortType": "relevance",
  "timeFilter": "all",
  "cursor": "t3_1btflsp"
}

Output format

• Records are pushed to the default Apify dataset.
• The payload is cleaned to remove any non‑data fields.

Example (truncated):

{
  "search": "funny",
  "subreddit": "funny",
  "filter": "posts",
  "timeFilter": "all",
  "sortType": "relevance",
  "cursor_used": null,
  "fetched_at": "2025-01-01T10:00:00.000Z",
  "payload": {
    "meta": {
      "status": 200,
      "search": "funny",
      "subreddit": "funny",
      "filter": "posts",
      "timeFilter": "all",
      "sortType": "relevance",
      "cursor": "t3_1btflsp"
    },
    "body": [ /* items */ ]
  }
}

Best practices 💡

• Respect platform rules: Use only for compliant, public‑data use cases.
• Use pagination: Always reuse the returned cursor to get the next page.
• Handle nulls: Fields may be missing; code defensively.
• Automate: Schedule runs and export JSON/CSV to your data stack.

FAQ ❓

• Does it support pagination? Yes. Use cursor with the value returned in payload.meta.cursor from the previous run.
• What content types can I filter? posts, comments, media, users, communities.
• Which sorting types are supported? relevance, hot, top, new, comments.
• How do I limit results to a subreddit? Set subreddit to a community like funny. Leave empty to search sitewide.
• Are private posts or deleted items included? No. Only public data is returned.

Related actor

• Reddit User Data Scraper (profiles & activity): https://apify.com/igview-owner/reddit-user-data-scraper

Which one should I use?

Feature	Reddit Search Scraper	Reddit User Data Scraper
Primary scope	Keyword-based search across Reddit (sitewide or a subreddit)	Deep data for a specific user profile
Key inputs	search, optional subreddit, filter, sortType, timeFilter, cursor	username, filter, sortType, cursor
Pagination	Cursor-based (cursor)	Cursor-based (cursor)
Best for	Topic discovery, monitoring trends, content research	User research, activity analysis, moderation

Keywords (Find me Better)

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