Reddit Scraper - Posts, Comments, Subreddits, Users & Search

Scrape Reddit posts, comments, subreddits, user profiles and keyword search results, and export them to CSV, Excel or JSON with no Reddit account and no API key. Built for brand monitoring, market research, lead discovery, sentiment analysis and AI or RAG datasets.

Paste subreddit, post, user or search URLs (or just type subreddit names and keywords) and get every post with its title, text, author, score, upvote ratio, comment count, flair, link and date, plus the top comments of each post with author, score, depth and date. Every row also names the input it came from in source, so you always know which subreddit or search it belongs to.

Built to finish. Long runs end as Succeeded with every row collected so far: the Actor wraps up shortly before the run's time limit and adds a free row naming any input it did not finish.

What you can scrape

• Subreddits - posts sorted by Hot, New, Top (hour to all time) or Rising, with page after page of results, plus one row with the subreddit's title, description, icon, banner image, weekly visitors and weekly contributions.
• Posts and comments - full post text (plain and HTML), link, images, video links, flair, score, upvote ratio and comment count, and the comments with author, score, depth, parent, reply count, date and HTML.
• Keyword search - posts, comments, communities, users or media (image and video posts) that match your words, across all of Reddit or inside one subreddit, sorted by relevance, hot, top, new or most comments.
• User profiles - karma (total, post and comment), account date, avatar and description, plus the user's posts and comments.
• Exact date ranges and flair filters - posts and comments between two dates, and only posts that carry a flair.

Who uses it

• Brand and competitor monitoring - posts and comments that mention your product, on a schedule with Sort = New.
• Market and product research - real customer questions and complaints from the communities where your buyers talk.
• Lead discovery - people asking for a tool or service like yours in niche subreddits, with their usernames.
• Sentiment analysis and AI datasets - post and comment text (plain and HTML) with scores and dates, ready for a spreadsheet, a model or a RAG pipeline.

How to use

1. Add one or more Reddit URLs (subreddit, post, user or search page), or fill Subreddits, Users or Search terms.
2. Choose Sort, Time range and how many posts and comments you want.
3. Run, then download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read them through the Apify API.

Example input:

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/" }],
  "searches": ["best crm for startups"],
  "sort": "top",
  "time": "week",
  "maxPostsPerSource": 25,
  "includeComments": true,
  "maxCommentsPerPost": 10
}

Field	What it does
startUrls	Subreddit (/r/name/, /r/name/top/?t=week, a flair view such as /r/name/?f=flair_name:"Showcase", /r/popular/, /r/all/), post (/r/name/comments/id/...), user (/user/name/) or search (/search/?q=...) URLs
subreddits, usernames, searches	The same without building URLs (names in any letter case, e.g. python for r/Python)
searchPosts, searchComments, searchCommunities, searchUsers, searchMedia	What a search returns (posts by default; also comments, communities, users, or image and video posts)
searchCommunityName	Search inside one subreddit (user search always covers all of Reddit)
sort, time	Hot / New / Top / Rising for subreddits; Relevance / Hot / Top / New / Comments for search; time range for Top and search
maxItems, maxPostsPerSource, maxCommentsPerPost	How much to collect
includeComments	Open each post for its full text and top comments (on by default)
includeCommunityInfo, includeUserPosts, includeUserComments	Extra rows for subreddits and users
postDateLimit, commentDateLimit	Only posts or comments since a date
postedBefore, commentedBefore	Only posts or comments until a date (a plain date covers the whole day in UTC)
onlyWithFlair	Only posts that have a post flair
includeNSFW	Keep or drop posts marked NSFW

Coming from another Reddit scraper? The field names maxPostCount, maxComments, skipComments, skipUserPosts, skipCommunity, ignoreStartUrls, maxCommunitiesCount and maxUserCount work here too. A field the Actor does not know, or a setting that would have no effect (such as Sort = Rising for a search), stops the run with a free row that names it, so you never pay for rows you did not ask for.

Output

Every row has dataType (post, comment, community, user) so one table holds everything, and source tells you which input it came from.

{
  "dataType": "post",
  "id": "t3_1abc234",
  "parsedId": "1abc234",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/example/comments/1abc234/how_do_you_track_your_coffee_recipes/",
  "title": "How do you track your coffee recipes?",
  "body": "I keep losing my notes on grind size and ratio. What do you use?",
  "html": "<p>I keep losing my notes on grind size and ratio. What do you use?</p>",
  "postType": "text",
  "flair": "Question",
  "author": "example_user",
  "communityName": "example",
  "createdAt": "2026-10-15T07:14:20.292Z",
  "upVotes": 66,
  "upVoteRatio": 0.93,
  "numberOfComments": 16,
  "imageUrls": [],
  "videoUrls": [],
  "isAd": false,
  "source": "https://www.reddit.com/r/example/",
  "sourceType": "community",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-15T09:00:00.000Z"
}

Comment rows add postId, parentId, depth, numberOfReplies and html; community rows add description, weeklyVisitors, weeklyContributions, iconUrl and bannerUrl; user rows add karma, postKarma, commentKarma, iconUrl and the account date in createdAt. Video posts list their Reddit video links in videoUrls (an HLS stream and, when Reddit offers one, an MP4 file).

FAQ

How do I scrape Reddit comments without the Reddit API? Paste the post URL into Reddit URLs (or a subreddit URL with Include comments on). The Actor returns each comment with author, score, depth, parent, date and text. You need no Reddit account or API key.

How do I export all posts from a subreddit to CSV or Excel? Add the subreddit name, set Sort and Maximum posts per source, run, and download the dataset as CSV or Excel from the run page.

Can I find Reddit posts and comments that mention my brand or a keyword? Yes. Put the words in Search terms and turn on Search for comments as well as posts. Use Sort = New with a schedule to keep an up-to-date list.

Can I get Reddit posts and comments between two dates? Yes. Set Only posts since and Only posts until (Only comments since and Only comments until for comments). A plain date covers the whole day in UTC.

Can I use Reddit data for sentiment analysis or an AI dataset? Yes. Each post and comment is one row with its text in plain form and HTML, score, date, author and subreddit, so you can download it as CSV or JSON and feed it to your analysis or RAG pipeline.

What happens if my run gets close to its time limit? The Actor stops starting new pages about half a minute before the limit, keeps every row it already returned, adds a free row saying which inputs were not finished, and ends as Succeeded.

Do I need a Reddit account? You need no account: the Actor returns what Reddit shows to anyone who is logged out.

Pricing

You pay per result row (post, comment, community or user), plus a small start fee for each run that depends on the run's memory (2 GB by default, at most 4 GB). Rows that only explain why something was not returned - a subreddit that does not exist, a page Reddit would not show, the run reaching its time or budget limit - are free and say so in the note column.

Set a maximum charge for the run in Apify, and the Actor stops cleanly at that amount with a free row that tells you so.

Limitations

• Only content Reddit shows without logging in is returned. Private, banned, quarantined and members-only subreddits come back as a free row that gives Reddit's reason, and NSFW pages that ask you to log in are skipped.
• r/all: Reddit sends visitors who are not logged in to its front page, which lists the same posts as r/popular, so that is what r/all returns.
• With comments on, each post's first page of comments (about 20-25, in Reddit's order) is read quickly. Asking for more than 20 comments per post makes the Actor load more comments on each post, which takes longer.
• Posts from search results include title, author, subreddit, score, comment count and date; their full text comes with Include comments on (the Actor then opens each post).
• Deleted comments without text or author are skipped and not charged. Email addresses and phone numbers inside text are masked.
• Subreddit info has weekly visitors and weekly contributions, which is what Reddit now shows instead of a member count.
• User search returns the profile link, karma, description and avatar shown in Reddit's search; account date and post/comment karma come when you add the user to Users.
• Media search results carry the title, author, subreddit and media links; score, date and text come with Include comments on (the Actor then opens each post). With a date filter, the Actor opens each post to read its date.
• A post search with "Only posts since" and no Time range uses the shortest range that still covers your date (past day, week, month or year), so nothing in your range is left out.
• When a date or flair filter makes the Actor open posts that turn out not to match, it stops after opening 30 such posts in one run and says so in a free row for each input it stopped.
• numberOfReplies counts the direct replies when Reddit shows all of them on the post page; when Reddit folds some replies behind "more replies", it is null rather than a guess.
• Video links expire after some time; download the videos soon after the run.
• Promoted posts (ads) in subreddit feeds are skipped; every post row has isAd.
• Author flair (the tag a user wears in a subreddit) is not returned: the pages Reddit shows without logging in do not include it.
• This Actor is not affiliated with Reddit. Please use the data in line with Reddit's terms and the privacy of its users.

Thanks for using this Actor

We build these tools for people who run them every day, and we improve them from what users tell us.

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