Reddit Scraper — Posts, Search & Users (No Login, No API Key)

Scrape Reddit with zero setup — no login, no API key, no OAuth, no app registration. Just enter up to 10 subreddits (plus optional searches, users, or post URLs) and run. A cheap, reliable, pay-as-you-go replacement for Reddit's expensive official API.

Since Reddit locked down and priced up its API, pulling Reddit data got painful. This Actor gives it back to you the easy way — it reads Reddit's public feeds through rotating residential connections with real browser fingerprints, so you get clean, structured results without registering an app or handling a single token.

What you can scan

• 🔥 Subreddits (up to 10 per run) — posts sorted by Hot, New, Top, Rising, or Controversial (with a time window for Top).
• #️⃣ Hashtags & terms, globally across ALL of Reddit — pass a list of hashtags, keywords, brands, or tickers (e.g. #nvidia, rtx 5090, $TSLA) and get matching posts from every community, not just one subreddit. Sort by New to monitor the latest mentions.
• 🔎 Search — a single query, all of Reddit or restricted to one subreddit.
• 👤 Users — a user's recent posts and comments.
• 💬 Post URLs — a specific post's comment feed.

Why this one

• ✅ Truly zero-config — no Reddit account, no client ID/secret, no OAuth. It works out of the box.
• 🛡️ Reliable — rotates residential IPs and real browser fingerprints to get past Reddit's anti-bot blocking, with automatic session refresh, retries, and back-off.
• 💸 Cheap & predictable — you pay per scanned source (each subreddit, search, user, or post = one unit), not per item. Ten subreddits = ten units, however many posts come back.
• 🎯 Clean structured output — flat records ready for JSON, CSV, or Excel, or straight from the Apify API.
• 🧯 Graceful — private, banned, or empty sources are skipped with a log line instead of crashing the run.

Input

Field	Description
subreddits	Up to 10 subreddits (without r/), e.g. programming, wallstreetbets. Each is billed as one scanned source.
sort	hot · new · top · rising · controversial (default hot).
time	Time window for Top/Controversial: hour…all.
searchQuery	Optional. Search term. With exactly one subreddit set, the search is restricted to it.
usernames	Optional. Usernames (without u/) to scan.
postUrls	Optional. Reddit post URLs to pull the comment feed for.
limitPerSource	Items to pull per source (max 100).
maxItems	Optional overall safety cap on total items.

Example input

{
  "subreddits": ["wallstreetbets", "stocks", "investing"],
  "sort": "top",
  "time": "week",
  "searchQuery": "nvidia earnings",
  "limitPerSource": 100
}

Output

One record per post (or comment, for post-URL scans). Example:

{
  "type": "post",
  "id": "1f8z9k0",
  "subreddit": "wallstreetbets",
  "title": "Magnificent Eight — Net Income Comparison",
  "author": "Prudent-Corgi3793",
  "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1f8z9k0/...",
  "created": "2026-09-01T14:03:22+00:00",
  "updated": "2026-09-01T14:03:22+00:00",
  "contentText": "Plain-text of the post body…",
  "contentHtml": "<div>…original HTML…</div>"
}

Fields: type, id, subreddit, title, author, permalink, created, updated, contentText, contentHtml. Export as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or via the dataset API.

Pricing

Pay per scanned source — you're billed one unit for each subreddit, search, user, or post you scan, no matter how many items come back, with no monthly fee. Predictable and cheap: scanning 10 subreddits is 10 units.

FAQ

Do I need a Reddit account, app, or API key? No. Nothing to set up — that's the whole point. How does it avoid getting blocked? It reads Reddit's public feeds over rotating residential connections with real browser fingerprints and a warmed session, retrying past the occasional block. Does it return vote scores and comment counts? No — it reads Reddit's public post feeds, which carry titles, authors, links, timestamps, and post text, but not live vote/comment counts. Can I schedule it? Yes — run it on a schedule to keep a rolling feed of subreddits, searches, or users. What formats can I export? JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or via the API.

Notes

Returns publicly available Reddit data only. Please scrape responsibly, respect Reddit's content, and comply with applicable terms and laws.