You can access the Reddit Community Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9    "communities": [
10        "technology",
11        "science",
12    ],
13    "maxItems": 50,
14    "maxRetries": 3,
15    "requestDelayMs": 300,
16    "debug": False,
17}
18
19# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
20run = client.actor("myagizm/reddit-community-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
21
22# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
23print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
24for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
25    print(item)
26
27# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Reddit Community Scraper – Subreddit Metadata API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Reddit Community Scraper API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

Reddit Community Scraper API in JavaScript

Reddit Community Scraper API through CLI

Reddit Community Scraper OpenAPI definition

Reddit Community Scraper API

Reddit Subreddit Scraper - Scrape Posts, No API Key

logiover/reddit-subreddit-scraper

Scrape subreddit posts with no Reddit API key or login. Reddit RSS feed scraper that exports posts to CSV/JSON for social listening and research.

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Nsfw API

vivid_astronaut/nsfw

Fabio Suizu

Reddit: Trending Subreddit Actor

pintostudio/reddit-trending-subreddit-actor

The Reddit: Trending Subreddit Actor allows you to retrieve a paginated list of trending/popular subreddits from Reddit, including rich metadata such as subscriber counts, descriptions, NSFW status, creation date, and more.

Pinto Studio

Reddit Subreddit Scraper

myagizm/reddit-subreddit-scraper

Scrape posts from any subreddit as structured JSON — new/hot/top/rising, with text and media. No login, no API key.

MYM

Reddit: Random Subreddit Actor

pintostudio/reddit-random-subreddit-actor

This Reddit: Random Subreddit Actor retrieves a paginated list of random public subreddits with rich metadata such as subscriber count, description, NSFW status, creation date, and more.

Pinto Studio

Reddit Subreddit Posts Scraper - No API Key

wiry_kingdom/reddit-subreddit-scraper

Scrape any public subreddit. Posts, scores, comments, authors, awards, flairs, timestamps. No API key, no OAuth, no login. Free public Reddit JSON. For alt data, social listening, AI training datasets.

Mohieldin Mohamed

Reddit Subreddit Scraper AI

crw/reddit-subreddit-scraper

Scrape Reddit subreddit posts and comments — with AI-generated summaries of every post body and comment discussion. No login, no API key required.

CRW

Reddit Scraper — Posts & Comments

signalengine/reddit-scraper

Scrape posts and comments from any subreddit — no Reddit API key, no login, no proxy. A fast, free Reddit API alternative for public data, exported to JSON, CSV or Excel.