Reddit Answers Scraper
Pricing
from $6.96 / 1,000 answers
Ask Reddit Answers (the AI of reddit.com/answers) many questions in one run: summary, Markdown answer, sections, quotes with links, follow-up questions, and the cited posts, comments and communities with their full text. For RAG, n8n and AI agents.
Answer ID
id
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Id of the Reddit Answers conversation (the id in its shared link).
Answer URL
url
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Shareable Reddit Answers link that asks the same question on reddit.com.
Question
query
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The question asked, as given in the input (or the follow-up question Reddit suggested).
Status
status
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answered, or refused when Reddit declines the question (unsafe, unsupported language, too long) or its answer cites no post or comment: a refused answer is not charged.
Rejection codes
rejectionCodes
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Reddit's reason codes for a refused question (0 = declined prompt, 5 = question too long); empty when answered.
[]Follow-up answer
isFollowUp
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True for the answer to a follow-up question Reddit suggested (followUpAnswers).
Parent question
parentQuery
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For a follow-up answer: the question it follows; null otherwise.
Parent answer ID
parentId
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For a follow-up answer: the id of the answer that suggested it; null otherwise.
Language
language
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Language Reddit answered in, the language of the question (en, de, pt-BR, es-419 for Spanish...); null when Reddit serves an answer it gave before from its memory.
Summary
summary
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The short answer: the first paragraph, as plain text.
Answer (Markdown)
markdown
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The whole answer in Markdown: headings, lists, bold text, and each quote as a link to the comment it comes from. Reddit's words are escaped (< of a tag as <, [ ] with a backslash): no HTML, no link but the answer's own (quotes, posts, communities, images). Ready for an LLM prompt.
Answer (plain text)
text
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The whole answer as plain text, without any markup: for search indexes and embeddings.
Sections
sections
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The answer cut at its headings: title, paragraphs, bullet points and the sources each one cites.
[ { "title": "Recommended Machines", "text": "Breville Bambino / Bambino Plus: Many Redditors suggest the Bambino or Bambino Plus for beginners...", "items": [ "Breville Bambino / Bambino Plus: Many Redditors suggest the Bambino or Bambino Plus for beginners..." ], "citations": [ { "sourceId": "t1_m2r2wyo", "sourceType": "comment", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/espresso/comments/1hhgjp2/comment/m2r2wyo/", "displayText": "\"I am a beginner. Got bambino and encore esp. perfectly happy with it.\"", "subreddit": "espresso" } ] }]Quotes
quotes
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Every Reddit quote in the answer, in order, with the comment or post it comes from. In an answer in another language than the comment, the quote is Reddit's translation (as reddit.com shows it); the comment's own words are in sourceComments.body.
[ { "text": "\"I am a beginner. Got bambino and encore esp. perfectly happy with it.\"", "sourceUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/r/espresso/comments/1hhgjp2/comment/m2r2wyo/", "sourceId": "t1_m2r2wyo", "sourceType": "comment", "subreddit": "espresso" }]Follow-up questions
followUpQueries
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The follow-up questions Reddit suggests after this answer.
[ "Best espresso machines under $500", "Espresso machine reviews 2023", "How to choose an espresso grinder"]Research steps
researchSteps
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What Reddit's AI searched for before answering ("Searching for ..."), in order. Only its last step when Reddit serves an answer it gave before from its memory.
[ "Searching for best budget espresso machine for beginners", "Consolidating what redditors are saying"]Cited posts
sourcePosts
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Every post the answer relies on, in Reddit's order. Title, text, author, score and dates come with enrichSources; comments with sourcePostComments.
[ { "id": "t3_1hhgjp2", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/espresso/comments/1hhgjp2/best_machine_for_beginners/", "subreddit": "espresso", "title": "Best Machine for Beginners", "author": "Ok-Lynx9838", "body": "Hey everyone! I'm looking to buy an actual espresso machine and need advice on the best one for a beginner...", "score": 17, "upvoteRatio": 0.84, "numComments": 51, "flair": "Equipment Discussion", "isNsfw": false, "linkUrl": null, "createdAt": "2024-12-19T00:43:58.000Z", "isTopPost": true, "comments": [ { "id": "t1_m2r07q3", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/espresso/comments/1hhgjp2/best_machine_for_beginners/m2r07q3/", "author": "oyedamamangan", "body": "Bambino and a great grinder. You can upgrade the Bambino later when you eventually get the itch. Ask me how I know lol", "score": 30, "createdAt": "2024-12-19T00:49:29.000Z" } ] }]Cited comments
sourceComments
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Every comment the answer quotes, with its full text and the post it belongs to (enrichSources).
[ { "id": "t1_m2r2wyo", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/espresso/comments/1hhgjp2/best_machine_for_beginners/m2r2wyo/", "subreddit": "espresso", "quote": "\"I am a beginner. Got bambino and encore esp. perfectly happy with it.\"", "author": "lieutenantdaan", "body": "I am a beginner. Got bambino and encore esp. perfectly happy with it", "score": 11, "createdAt": "2024-12-19T01:06:08.000Z", "parentId": "t3_1hhgjp2", "postId": "t3_1hhgjp2", "postTitle": "Best Machine for Beginners", "postUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/r/espresso/comments/1hhgjp2/best_machine_for_beginners/", "postAuthor": "Ok-Lynx9838" }]Communities
recommendedSubreddits
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The communities the answer draws on or suggests. Title, description, members and dates come with enrichSources.
[ { "id": "t5_2qhze", "name": "Coffee", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/Coffee/", "title": "Coffee", "description": "/r/Coffee is back - for now - and talking about itself, in addition to coffee.", "subscribers": 2455529, "iconUrl": "https://styles.redditmedia.com/t5_2qhze/styles/communityIcon_81fbf117t1411.png?width=256&s=a1eeb15bf142101ddb104de271f81ba440b4268d", "isNsfw": false, "createdAt": "2008-05-15T13:10:38.000Z" }]Cited posts
postCount
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Number of posts cited.
Cited comments
commentCount
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Number of comments quoted.
Communities
subredditCount
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Number of communities listed.
Sources enriched
sourcesEnriched
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True when the source details (full text, authors, scores) were read (enrichSources).
Raw answer document
document
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Reddit's own answer document, block by block (includeRawDocument); null otherwise.
Answered at
scrapedAt
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ISO 8601 timestamp of the answer.