Search one or more keywords across one or more subreddits on reddit.com and extract detailed information from matching posts.

The actor supports multiple keywords, multiple subreddits, automatic pagination, proxy rotation, retry logic, and duplicate removal.

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Features

• Search multiple keywords in a single run
• Search across multiple subreddits
• Automatic pagination
• Proxy support (Apify Residential Proxy)
• Automatic retries with exponential backoff
• Random User-Agent rotation
• Duplicate removal across all searches
• Clean structured JSON output

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Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
search	String or Array	Yes	Keyword(s) to search for.
Subreddit	String or Array	Yes	Subreddit name(s) without /r/.
maxPages	Integer	No	Maximum number of pages to scrape for each keyword/subreddit combination. Default: 20.

Example Input

{
  "search": [
    "python",
    "web scraping",
    "playwright"
  ],
  "Subreddit": [
    "learnpython",
    "Python",
    "webscraping"
  ],
  "maxPages": 5
}

You can also provide single values:

{
  "search": "python",
  "Subreddit": "learnpython"
}

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Output

Each result contains:

Field	Description
keyword	Search keyword used
subreddit	Subreddit searched
header	Post title
link	Reddit post URL
author	Username of the author
time	Post timestamp (ISO format when available)
score	Reddit score shown in search results
comments	Number of comments displayed
body_text	Preview text extracted from the search result

Example Output

{
  "keyword": "python",
  "subreddit": "learnpython",
  "header": "How do I scrape Reddit using Python?",
  "link": "https://reddit.com/r/learnpython/comments/xxxxx/example/",
  "author": "example_user",
  "time": "2026-06-10T18:22:44+00:00",
  "score": "154 points",
  "comments": "42 comments",
  "body_text": "I'm trying to scrape Reddit search results..."
}

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Proxy Support

This actor is configured to use Apify Residential Proxy (US) by default.

If proxy configuration is unavailable, the actor automatically continues without a proxy.

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