Reddit Scraper

Scrape posts from any public subreddit using Reddit's public JSON API — no API key required. Extract titles, scores, authors, comment counts, and timestamps. Filter by sort order (hot, new, top) and optionally by keyword.

Features

• Scrape hot, new, or top posts from any public subreddit
• Optional keyword filter on post titles (case insensitive)
• Configurable post limit (up to 100 per run)
• Outputs clean structured data: title, score, url, author, num_comments, created_utc
• No Reddit API key needed
• Fast and lightweight — runs in seconds

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
subreddit	string	Yes	Subreddit name without r/ (e.g. AskReddit)
sort	enum	Yes	Sort order: hot, new, or top
limit	integer	No	Number of posts to fetch (default: 50, max: 100)
keyword	string	No	Filter posts by keyword in title (case insensitive)

Output

Each item in the dataset contains:

{
  "title": "What is something you learned too late in life?",
  "score": 42301,
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xyz123/...",
  "author": "u/some_user",
  "num_comments": 18203,
  "created_utc": 1710845231.0
}

Use Cases

• Content research: Find trending topics and viral posts in any niche
• Market research: Monitor what your audience is talking about
• Lead generation: Identify pain points and questions in industry subreddits
• Competitor analysis: Track mentions and discussions around specific keywords
• SEO & content ideas: Discover what titles get the most engagement
• Sentiment monitoring: Track keyword sentiment over time in a community
• Academic research: Collect data from Reddit communities for analysis
• News aggregation: Pull the hottest posts from news subreddits automatically

Example Input

{
  "subreddit": "Entrepreneur",
  "sort": "hot",
  "limit": 50,
  "keyword": "passive income"
}

Example Subreddits

• AskReddit — General Q&A, massive engagement
• Entrepreneur — Business and startup discussions
• technology — Tech news and trends
• worldnews — Breaking global news
• MachineLearning — AI and ML research discussions
• personalfinance — Finance tips and questions

Notes

• Reddit limits public JSON endpoints to 100 posts per request. For larger datasets, run the actor multiple times with different sort orders.
• Posts are fetched from Reddit's public .json endpoint — no authentication required.
• The actor uses Apify Residential Proxy to ensure reliable access without rate limiting.

Legal

This actor accesses publicly available Reddit data via the official Reddit JSON API. Always comply with Reddit's Terms of Service and applicable data protection regulations when using scraped data.