Reddit Subreddit Scraper

Scrape posts from any subreddit on Reddit without a login or API key. This subreddit scraper pulls the latest posts from one or many subreddits and exports them as clean rows for social listening, brand monitoring and research.

It reads Reddit's public RSS/Atom feeds over a residential proxy (Reddit blocks datacenter IPs and has shut down the old logged-out .json listing API), so you get reliable, anonymous access with no Reddit account, no OAuth and no client secret.

What you get

One dataset row per post, with these fields:

Field	Description
postId	Reddit post ID
subreddit	Subreddit the post belongs to
title	Post title
author	Username of the post author
url	URL the post points to (link target or the Reddit post URL)
permalink	Link to the post on Reddit
selftext	Body text snippet of self/text posts (when present in the feed)
createdAt	ISO 8601 timestamp the post was created
scrapedAt	ISO 8601 timestamp of the scrape

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 a Reddit historical archive scraper instead.

Export every run to CSV, JSON, Excel, HTML, XML or JSONL from the Apify dataset, or pull it live via the API and webhooks.

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 and 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 and trend discovery — feed the newest titles from the subs your audience lives in into your newsletter, podcast or content backlog.
• Research and NLP corpora — collect topic-specific Reddit text on a schedule to build domain datasets for analysis or fine-tuning.

How to use

1. Add one or more subreddit names to Subreddits (e.g. startups, r/Entrepreneur, cryptocurrency). The r/ prefix is optional.
2. Pick a Sort order: new, hot, top or rising.
3. Optionally set a Time Filter (hour, day, week, month, year, all) — it applies to top sort.
4. Optionally cap posts per subreddit with Max Posts per Subreddit.
5. Click Start. Each post is saved as one row in the dataset, ready to download or pipe into your stack.

Example input

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

FAQ

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.

How many posts can I get per subreddit?

Reddit's logged-out RSS feed returns at most about 25 of the most recent posts per subreddit and has no pagination, so roughly 25 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 Reddit has blocked for logged-out access. The RSS feed this scraper uses does not include them, so those fields return null. Use a historical archive scraper if you need vote and comment metrics.

Which export formats are supported?

CSV, JSON, Excel, HTML, XML and JSONL from the Apify dataset, plus the Apify API and webhooks for live integrations with Sheets, Slack, Notion, your CRM or a database.

How do I scrape Reddit without an API key or login?

This actor reads Reddit's public RSS/Atom feeds over a residential proxy, so it works with no Reddit account, no OAuth and no client secret. It is a practical Reddit API alternative for pulling public subreddit posts anonymously.

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.

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.

Changelog

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.