Reddit Subreddit Scraper — Posts, Titles & Authors (No API Key)

Scrape posts from any subreddit on Reddit — one or many at once — without a login or API key. Pull the newest posts with title, author, post URL, permalink, self-text and timestamps as clean structured rows for social listening, brand monitoring, lead generation and research. Reads Reddit's public RSS/Atom feeds over a residential proxy, so you get reliable anonymous access with no Reddit account, no OAuth and no client secret. Fast, no browser, no API key, no login.

🏆 Why this Reddit subreddit scraper?

Multiple subreddits per run · newest posts with title, author, permalink & self-text · direct HTTP + RSS parsing (no browser, no OAuth) · residential-proxy ready · export to JSON / CSV / Excel. The anonymous Reddit API alternative for social listening, community monitoring and NLP corpora.

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✨ What this Actor does / Key features

• 📰 Any subreddit, many at once — pass a list of subreddit names (with or without the r/ prefix) and scrape them all in one run.
• 🔀 Flexible sorting — choose new, hot, top or rising post order.
• ⏱️ Time filter — narrow top results to the last hour, day, week, month, year or all time.
• 🧾 Clean post fields — post ID, title, author, link/target URL, Reddit permalink, self-text snippet and ISO 8601 timestamps.
• 🎯 Per-subreddit cap — set max posts per subreddit to control run size.
• ⚡ Direct HTTP + RSS extraction — parses Reddit's public RSS/Atom feeds; no browser, no DOM walking, no OAuth token, no client secret.
• 🛡️ Anonymous by design — reads the logged-out feed over a residential proxy (Reddit blocks datacenter IPs), so no Reddit login is needed.
• 📤 Export anywhere — download as CSV, JSON, Excel, HTML, XML or JSONL, or pull it live via the Apify API and webhooks.

🚀 Quick start (3 steps)

1. Configure — add one or more subreddit names to Subreddits (e.g. startups, Entrepreneur, cryptocurrency), pick a Sort order and optionally a Time Filter and Max Posts per Subreddit.
2. Run — click Start. The Actor reads each subreddit's RSS feed and streams posts into your dataset.
3. Get your data — open the Output tab and export to JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or JSONL, or pull it via the Apify API.

📥 Input

Give the Actor at least one subreddit name. Everything else is optional.

Example — newest posts across startup & SaaS subs (social listening)

{
  "subreddits": ["startups", "Entrepreneur", "SaaS"],
  "sort": "new",
  "maxPostsPerSub": 25
}

Example — top posts of the week in a niche community

{
  "subreddits": ["cryptocurrency"],
  "sort": "top",
  "timeFilter": "week",
  "maxPostsPerSub": 25
}

Example — monitor demand subs for lead generation

{
  "subreddits": ["forhire", "slavelabour", "jobbit"],
  "sort": "new",
  "maxPostsPerSub": 25
}

Field	Type	Description
subreddits	array	Subreddit names to scrape, e.g. startups, forhire, cryptocurrency. The r/ prefix is optional. Required.
sort	string	Post sort order: new, hot, top or rising.
timeFilter	string	Time window applied to top sort: hour, day, week, month, year or all.
maxPostsPerSub	integer	Max posts per subreddit. Reddit's logged-out feed returns at most ~25 most-recent posts per subreddit with no pagination, so values above 25 have no extra effect.
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy settings. Reddit blocks datacenter IPs, so residential is used by default — leave as-is unless you have a reason to change it.

Finding a subreddit name: it's the part after reddit.com/r/ in the URL — e.g. for reddit.com/r/startups the name is startups. Add several names to scale volume across communities in a single run.

📤 Output

One row per post — exportable to JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or JSONL. Here is a real sample record:

{
  "postId": "1dxk2ab",
  "subreddit": "startups",
  "title": "How we got our first 100 paying customers in 6 weeks",
  "author": "founder_jane",
  "url": "https://blog.example.com/first-100-customers",
  "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/1dxk2ab/how_we_got_our_first_100_paying_customers/",
  "selftext": "Sharing the exact playbook we used — cold outreach, a tight ICP, and one channel done well…",
  "createdAt": "2026-07-06T09:14:00Z",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-06T12:00:00Z"
}

Note: Reddit's public RSS feeds do not expose vote score, upvote ratio, comment count, flair or NSFW flags, so this scraper does not return those metrics. For score/comment counts and deep history, use the Reddit Historical Archive Scraper instead.

💡 Use cases

• Social listening — track what a niche community is posting about in near real time across r/startups, r/SaaS, r/marketing and any other subreddit.
• Brand & competitor monitoring — schedule the scraper hourly or daily and catch new posts mentioning your product, competitor or category.
• Lead generation — watch demand subs like r/forhire, r/slavelabour or industry help subreddits and surface fresh posts the moment they appear.
• Content & trend discovery — feed the newest titles from the subs your audience lives in into your newsletter, podcast or content backlog.
• Research & NLP corpora — collect topic-specific Reddit text on a schedule to build domain datasets for analysis or fine-tuning.

👥 Who uses it

Social-media & community managers · brand and competitor monitoring teams · growth marketers & lead-gen agencies · content creators and newsletter writers · researchers and data scientists building Reddit text corpora.

💰 Pricing

This Actor runs on a simple pay-per-result model — you pay for the posts you extract, with no separate Apify platform fees to calculate. Try it on the free tier first, then scale up. See the Pricing tab on this page for the current rate.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Is it legal to scrape Reddit? This Actor collects only publicly available posts from Reddit's own public RSS/Atom feeds — no login or circumvention involved. You are responsible for using the data in compliance with Reddit's terms and applicable laws such as GDPR when handling usernames.

Does Reddit have a public API / is this an API alternative? Reddit's old logged-out .json listing API has been blocked, and its official API now requires OAuth credentials. This Actor instead reads Reddit's public RSS/Atom feeds anonymously, making it a practical Reddit API alternative for pulling public subreddit posts with no key, no OAuth and no client secret.

Do I need a Reddit account or API key? No. The scraper reads Reddit's public RSS feeds anonymously over a residential proxy — no Reddit login, no OAuth, no API key and no client secret. Only an Apify account is needed.

Do I need a proxy? Reddit blocks datacenter IPs, so the Actor uses a residential Apify Proxy by default. Leave the proxy setting as-is unless you have a specific reason to change it.

How much data can I get? Reddit's logged-out RSS feed returns at most ~25 of the most recent posts per subreddit and has no pagination, so roughly 25 posts per subreddit per run is the ceiling. Scrape many subreddits in one run to scale volume, and re-run on a schedule to keep collecting new posts over time.

Why don't I get score, comment count or upvote ratio? Those values only existed on Reddit's old .json listing API, which is blocked for logged-out access. The RSS feed this scraper uses does not include them. Use the historical archive scraper if you need vote and comment metrics.

Is this a Reddit RSS feed scraper?

Yes. Under the hood it parses Reddit's logged-out RSS/Atom feeds, which is why it stays anonymous and needs no API credentials. That also sets the ~25-posts-per-subreddit ceiling described above.

Can I scrape Reddit without an API or login?

Yes. No Reddit account, login, OAuth or client secret is required — only an Apify account. The Actor reads Reddit's public RSS feeds over a residential proxy and returns each post as a clean row.

How do I export Reddit posts to CSV or JSON?

Run the scraper, then download the dataset as CSV, JSON, Excel, HTML, XML or JSONL, or pull it via the Apify API. Each post is one clean row, ready as a Reddit posts dataset for analysis, Sheets, Slack, Notion or your CRM.

How do I scrape the newest posts from a subreddit?

Add subreddit names to subreddits and set sort to new. The scraper reads Reddit's public RSS feed and returns the latest posts with title, author, URL and permalink.

How do I monitor multiple subreddits for lead generation?

List several demand subreddits (like forhire or your niche help subs) and schedule the scraper to catch fresh posts the moment they appear, exported to CSV or JSON.

🔗 More social & discussion scrapers by logiover

Building a cross-platform social dataset? Pair this with the rest of the discussion & social suite:

Platform	Actor
👽 Reddit	Reddit Search Scraper · Reddit Historical Archive Scraper
💬 Hacker News	Hacker News Search Scraper
❓ Stack Exchange	Stack Exchange Questions Scraper
🚀 Product Hunt	Product Hunt Daily Launches Scraper
✍️ Dev.to	Dev.to Articles Scraper
📰 Substack	Substack Newsletter Scraper
🧵 Threads	Threads Scraper
🐦 X / Twitter	X Tweet Scraper
📌 Pinterest	Pinterest Scraper
🎮 Steam	Steam Game Reviews Scraper
▶️ YouTube	YouTube Search Scraper

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⏰ Scheduling & integration

Schedule this Actor on Apify to keep collecting fresh subreddit posts hourly, daily or weekly — ideal for ongoing social listening and brand monitoring. Export results to JSON, CSV or Excel, sync to Google Sheets, or push to Slack, Notion, your database and webhooks through the Apify API. Connect it to Make, n8n or Zapier to build automated monitoring and alerting pipelines.

⭐ Support & feedback

Found a bug or need an extra field? Open an issue on the Issues tab — response is usually fast. If this Actor saves you time, a ★★★★★ review on the Store page genuinely helps and is hugely appreciated. 🙏

⚖️ Legal

This Actor extracts only publicly available data from Reddit's own public RSS/Atom feeds and is intended for legitimate research, analytics and monitoring use. You are responsible for complying with Reddit's terms of service, GDPR and any applicable local laws.

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📝 Changelog

2026-07-06

• ✨ README overhaul: keyword-rich intro, ready-to-run example scenarios, real output sample with a full field reference, discussion & social suite links, and expanded high-intent FAQ.

2026-07-01

• Maintenance pass: re-verified end-to-end on live data and confirmed successful runs within the 5-minute quality window on the default input.
• Sharpened Store metadata (SEO title & description) and expanded the FAQ with high-intent, long-tail questions for easier discovery in Google and Apify Store search.
• Added ready-to-run example tasks that cover common real-world use cases.

2026-06-15

• Reliability pass: re-verified end-to-end on live data with real-world inputs. Routine maintenance build.

2026-06-07

• Docs: added coverage for scraping Reddit without an API key, exporting Reddit posts to CSV/JSON, and the RSS feed scraper as a Reddit API alternative.

2026-06-05

• SEO and documentation refresh; README and metadata corrected to accurately describe the RSS-based transport and the fields actually returned.
• Reliability fix: results are no longer dropped by strict output validation — runs complete cleanly even at high volume.