Lemmy Scraper 🐭

Scrape posts from any Lemmy instance or community — no login, no API key. Lemmy is the fediverse's open-source Reddit alternative. This Actor pulls a clean, structured feed of posts with title, score, upvotes/downvotes, comment counts, author, community and body straight from Lemmy's public JSON API.

Perfect for social monitoring, trend research, content curation and community analysis across the fediverse.

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✨ Features

• No API key, no account. Uses Lemmy's public /api/v3 endpoints.
• Any instance. lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, sh.itjust.works, beehaw.org, or your own.
• Two modes: browse a feed (by community + sort) or search posts full-text.
• Rich, flat output. Score, votes, comments, author, community and ISO timestamps.
• Datacenter-friendly. Fast plain JSON — no residential proxies required.
• Cheap. Pay-per-result, roughly $0.5 per 1,000 posts.

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🚀 Input

Field	Type	Description
mode	select	posts (feed) or search. Default posts.
instance	string	Instance host, e.g. lemmy.world. Default lemmy.world.
community	string	Optional community, e.g. technology or name@instance. Feed mode only.
sort	select	Active, Hot, New, TopDay, TopWeek, TopAll. Default Hot.
query	string	Search term. Required when mode is search.
maxItems	integer	Max posts to scrape (1–1000). Default 100.

Example — Hot posts from a community

{
  "mode": "posts",
  "instance": "lemmy.world",
  "community": "technology",
  "sort": "Hot",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Example — search posts

{
  "mode": "search",
  "instance": "lemmy.world",
  "query": "self hosting",
  "maxItems": 200
}

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📦 Output

Each dataset item is one post:

{
  "instance": "lemmy.world",
  "post_id": 49691217,
  "title": "Caption",
  "url": "https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/abc.jpeg",
  "body": "…post text, capped at 5000 chars…",
  "published": "2026-07-20T20:46:50.426065Z",
  "nsfw": false,
  "author": "Optional",
  "author_actor": "https://lemmy.world/u/homesweethomeMrL",
  "community": "microblogmemes",
  "community_title": "Microblog Memes",
  "score": 106,
  "upvotes": 107,
  "downvotes": 1,
  "comments": 4,
  "thumbnail": "https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/thumb.jpeg",
  "post_url": "https://lemmy.world/post/49691217",
  "source": "lemmy",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-21T00:00:00Z"
}

Export to JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or pull via the Apify API.

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💡 Use cases

• Social monitoring — track how topics or brands are discussed across fediverse communities.
• Trend research — surface top/hot posts by score and comment volume.
• Content curation — build feeds and newsletters from niche Lemmy communities.
• Community analysis — measure engagement, activity and voting patterns per community.

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💰 Pricing

Pay-per-result — approximately $0.5 per 1,000 posts. Runs on 512 MB and needs no proxies, so it stays cheap and fast.

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🔗 Related actors

• Reddit Scraper
• Mastodon Scraper
• Bluesky Scraper
• Hacker News Scraper

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❓ FAQ

Do I need a Lemmy account or API key? No. Everything uses public read-only endpoints.

Which instances work? Any standard Lemmy instance exposing /api/v3. Just set instance.

How do I scrape a remote community? Use name@instance in the community field (e.g. asklemmy@lemmy.ml).

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