What does Reddit Scraper do?

Lightning fast Reddit Scraper lets you scrape Reddit posts, comments, users, and communities — all without login, API keys, or authentication. Extract data from any subreddit, user profile, or search query with no rate limits.

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💡 Get 1,000+ results for less than $4 — fully covered by the free $5 monthly credits on every Apify account.

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✨ Reddit Scraper allows you to

• 📝 Scrape subreddits — extract all top, hot, new, and rising posts from any community
• 💬 Get Reddit comments — timestamps, points, usernames, URLs, and full reply threads
• 👤 Scrape user profiles — karma scores, account age, and recent activity
• 🔍 Search by keyword — across posts, comments, communities, users, and media
• 📊 Sort & filter — by Relevance, Hot, Top, New, Rising, Controversial, or Comments
• 📅 Filter by date — last hour, day, week, month, year, or custom date ranges
• 🔗 Scrape by URL or keyword — or combine both approaches

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📋 What data can I extract from Reddit?

📝 Reddit Posts	💬 Reddit Comments
Title and body text	Comment text and HTML
Author username	Commenter username
Upvotes and vote ratio	Points / score
Number of comments	Timestamps
Image and video URLs	Permalink and parent URL
Flair and NSFW flag	Thread hierarchy

👥 Reddit Communities	👤 Reddit Users
Subreddit name and title	Username
Number of members	Post and comment karma
Description and category	Recent posts and comments
Community URL	User icon / avatar
NSFW flag	Account creation date

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💵 How much will it cost to scrape Reddit?

Plan	Monthly Credits	Ideal For
🆓 Free Plan	$5 free credits	Up to ~1,000 results
💰 Personal ($15/mo)	Higher limits	Regular scraping needs
🚀 Starter ($49/mo)	10,000+ results/month	Professional data collection
🏢 Scale plans	Unlimited	Large-scale enterprise scraping

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🛠️ How to scrape Reddit

No coding required — just 5 steps:

1. Create a free Apify account using your email
2. Open Reddit Scraper on the Apify platform
3. Add Reddit URLs or enter search keywords
4. Click "Start" and wait for the data extraction
5. Download your data in JSON, CSV, XML, Excel, or HTML

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🧠 Popular use cases

Use Case	How It Helps
🏷️ Brand Monitoring	Track customer sentiment and product discussions
📈 Market Research	Discover user needs, pain points, and trends
🏆 Competitive Analysis	Monitor competitor mentions across subreddits
🔥 Trend Tracking	Spot emerging trends and viral topics early
✍️ Content Ideation	Find popular discussions for content inspiration
🎓 Academic Research	Analyze public debates, opinions, and discourse
🔔 Automated Alerts	Track any keyword, brand, or topic automatically
📊 Sentiment Analysis	Feed Reddit comments into NLP pipelines

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🧩 Input parameters

To run this Actor, provide at least one of:

• 🔗 Start URLs (startUrls) — Reddit URLs to scrape directly (e.g., [{"url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/news/"}])
• 🔍 Search Term (searches) — Keywords to search (e.g., ["artificial intelligence"])

⚠️ Important: When Start URLs are provided, all Search parameters are ignored. Clear the Start URLs field to use keyword search, or perform a filtered search on Reddit and paste that URL into Start URLs.

How to scrape Reddit by URL

Almost any Reddit URL works. Here are examples:

Type	Example URL
🏘️ Community	https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/
🔥 Community channel	https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/hot
📝 Post with comments	https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/lp1hi4/...
👤 User profile	https://www.reddit.com/user/lukaskrivka
💬 User comments	https://www.reddit.com/user/lukaskrivka/comments/
🏆 Popular posts	https://www.reddit.com/r/popular/
🔍 Search results	https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=news

How to scrape Reddit by search term

• 🔍 Search Term (searches) — keywords to search via Reddit's search engine
• 🏘️ Community (searchCommunityName) — restrict search to a specific subreddit (e.g., "programming")

Advanced parameters

Parameter	Description
📝 searchPosts	Search for posts matching the keyword (default: ✅)
💬 searchComments	Search for comments matching the keyword
👥 searchCommunities	Search for communities matching the keyword
👤 searchUsers	Search for users matching the keyword
🖼️ searchMedia	Filter to posts with images/videos only
🔞 includeNSFW	Include or exclude NSFW content
📷 includeMediaLinks	Extract upVotes, imageUrls, videoUrls, numberOfComments
🚫 skipComments	Skip extracting comments (faster scraping)
🚫 skipUserPosts	Skip user posts (only get metadata)
🚫 skipCommunity	Skip community details (only get posts)
📊 sort	Sort by: Relevance, Hot, Top, New, Rising, Controversial, Comments
📅 time	Filter by: hour, day, week, month, year
📅 postDateLimit	Only get posts after this date
📅 commentDateLimit	Only get comments after this date
🐛 debugMode	Enable detailed debug logs

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📌 Input examples

Using Search with Media Links

{
  "searches": ["parrots"],
  "includeMediaLinks": true,
  "maxPostCount": 10,
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  }
}

Using Keyword Search

{
  "searches": ["artificial intelligence"],
  "searchPosts": true,
  "searchCommunities": true,
  "sort": "top",
  "time": "week",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "maxComments": 20,
  "includeNSFW": false,
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  }
}

Using Start URLs

{
  "maxItems": 10,
  "maxPostCount": 10,
  "maxComments": 10,
  "scrollTimeout": 40,
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  },
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/pasta/" },
    { "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/pasta/comments/vwi6jx/pasta_peperoni_and_ricotta_cheese_how_to_make/" }
  ]
}

Limiting results

{
  "maxItems": 100,
  "maxPostCount": 50,
  "maxComments": 10,
  "maxCommunitiesCount": 5,
  "maxUserCount": 5
}

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📤 Output examples

The output is stored in the dataset. Each post, comment, user, or community is a separate item. Download in JSON, CSV, XML, RSS, or HTML Table.

📝 Note: Detailed fields like upVotes, upVoteRatio, numberOfComments, imageUrls, videoUrls are only extracted when includeMediaLinks is true.

📝 Example Reddit Post

{
  "id": "t3_144w7sn",
  "parsedId": "144w7sn",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/HonkaiStarRail/comments/144w7sn/my_luckiest_10x_pull_yet/",
  "username": "YourKingLives",
  "title": "My Luckiest 10x Pull Yet",
  "communityName": "r/HonkaiStarRail",
  "parsedCommunityName": "HonkaiStarRail",
  "body": "...",
  "html": "...",
  "numberOfComments": 42,
  "upVotes": 1500,
  "upVoteRatio": 0.98,
  "isVideo": false,
  "over18": false,
  "imageUrls": ["https://preview.redd.it/yod3okjkgx4b1.jpg?auto=webp&s=..."],
  "videoUrls": [],
  "createdAt": "2023-06-09T05:23:15.000Z",
  "scrapedAt": "2023-06-09T05:23:28.409Z",
  "dataType": "post"
}

💬 Example Reddit Comment

{
  "id": "t1_jnhqrgg",
  "parsedId": "jnhqrgg",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/NewsWithJingjing/comments/144v5c3/.../jnhqrgg/",
  "parentId": "t3_144v5c3",
  "username": "smokecat20",
  "communityName": "r/NewsWithJingjing",
  "body": "A true patriot.",
  "html": "<div class=\"md\"><p>A true patriot.</p>\n</div>",
  "upVotes": 3,
  "numberOfReplies": 0,
  "createdAt": "2023-06-09T05:00:00.000Z",
  "scrapedAt": "2023-06-09T05:23:32.025Z",
  "dataType": "comment"
}

👥 Example Reddit Community

{
  "id": "2qlhq",
  "name": "t5_2qlhq",
  "title": "Pizza",
  "description": "The home of pizza on reddit. An educational community devoted to the art of pizza making.",
  "over18": false,
  "numberOfMembers": 569724,
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/Pizza/",
  "createdAt": "2008-08-26T00:03:48.000Z",
  "scrapedAt": "2023-06-09T05:16:55.443Z",
  "dataType": "community"
}

👤 Example Reddit User

{
  "id": "c3h2qmv",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/user/jancurn/",
  "username": "jancurn",
  "postKarma": 4,
  "commentKarma": 10,
  "over18": false,
  "createdAt": "2018-09-10T15:13:39.000Z",
  "scrapedAt": "2023-06-09T05:21:14.409Z",
  "dataType": "user"
}

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🔧 Notes for developers

Reddit's 1,000 items limit

Any Reddit list (subreddit posts, search results) caps at ~1,000 items. This is a Reddit platform limit, not a scraper limitation.

✅ Comments are NOT affected — the scraper extracts all available comments from any single post URL, even thousands.

Strategies to get more than 1,000 results:

Strategy	How
🔀 Combine sorts	Scrape "New" first, then "Top", "Hot", "Controversial"
🔍 Use Search	Keywords surface older posts not visible in main lists
📅 Time Filters	Filter by "last year", "last month" to reveal different data
🔄 Date Limits	Use postDateLimit for daily incremental scraping

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❓ FAQ

Is Reddit scraping legal?

Scraping publicly available Reddit data is generally allowed. Use the scraper responsibly and comply with Reddit's terms of service and applicable laws.

Can I use Reddit API to scrape Reddit?

Reddit's API is paid and requires authentication. This scraper works without API keys, tokens, or special authorization — just enter a URL or keyword and go.

How can I scrape Reddit comments?

Enable comment scraping in your input (it's on by default). The scraper extracts comment text, author, score, timestamps, and HTML — from any post URL.

Do I need proxies for scraping Reddit?

Highly recommended. Residential proxies are built-in with Apify Proxy. Datacenter proxies may work for small runs but get blocked more often.

Can I scrape without login?

Yes — 100% public data scraping, no authentication needed.

Can I export data via API?

Yes! Use the Apify API with REST endpoints, apify-client for Node.js, or apify-client for Python. Also works with Zapier, Make, and other integrations.

Why can't I get more than 1,000 posts?

This is a Reddit platform limitation, not a scraper issue. See the "Notes for developers" section above for strategies to work around it.

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📦 Export formats

Format	Best For
JSON	APIs and programmatic access
CSV	Excel, Google Sheets, analytics tools
XML	Structured imports and data pipelines
RSS	Feed readers and automated workflows
HTML Table	Quick previews and sharing

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