# Reddit Search Scraper (`piotrv1001/reddit-search-scraper`) Actor

Search Reddit posts by keyword: title, subreddit, author, score, comment count, date, link and thumbnail, plus optional full post text. Filter by subreddit, sort and time range, and go past the 250-post limit. No login. Export JSON, CSV or Excel.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/piotrv1001/reddit-search-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [FalconScrape](https://apify.com/piotrv1001) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.50 / 1,000 posts

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

### 🚀 Reddit Search Scraper

Search **Reddit posts by keyword** and export the results. The **Reddit Search Scraper** saves each matching post's title, subreddit, author, score, comment count, date, link and thumbnail, and can add the **full post text**. Search all of Reddit or one subreddit, sort by relevance, hot, top, new or most comments, and filter by time range. Use it for brand monitoring, market and product research, lead generation, trend tracking, sentiment analysis or AI training data. No Reddit account needed.

### ✨ Features

- 🔎 **Keyword Search**: Many queries per run, each with its own limit. Search all of Reddit or a single subreddit.
- 🗂️ **Sort and Time Filters**: Relevance, hot, top, new or most comments; past hour, day, week, month, year or all time.
- 📝 **Full Post Text (optional)**: Turn on "Include post text" to add the body and the outbound link of link, image and video posts.
- 📈 **Past the 250-Post Limit**: Reddit lists about 250 posts per search. When you ask for more, the Actor combines other sort orders and narrower time ranges and removes duplicates.
- 📅 **Posted After**: Keep only posts newer than a date, handy for scheduled monitoring.
- 🧹 **No Duplicates**: A post found by several queries or sort orders is saved and charged once.

### 🛠️ How It Works

1. **Enter search queries**: one keyword or phrase per line.
2. **Pick filters**: optionally a subreddit, sort order, time range and "Posted after" date.
3. **Run the Scraper**: download the posts as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull them through the API.

### ⚙️ Input

| Field                                   | What it does                                                                                             |
| --------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Search queries**                      | Keywords to search for, one per line. Default `chatgpt`.                                                 |
| **Only in subreddit**                   | Optional. A subreddit name or link (`SaaS`, `r/SaaS`, `https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/`).                 |
| **Sort by**                             | Relevance (default), Hot, Top, New or Most comments.                                                     |
| **Time range**                          | All time (default), past year, month, week, 24 hours or hour.                                            |
| **Max posts per query**                 | Stop after this many posts for each query. Default 50.                                                   |
| **Include post text**                   | Adds each post's full text and outbound link. A little slower, same price. Default off.                  |
| **Include NSFW posts**                  | Keep posts marked 18+. Default off.                                                                      |
| **Posted after**                        | Optional date (YYYY-MM-DD). Older posts are skipped.                                                     |
| **Proxy configuration**                 | Residential proxies are needed. The default works.                                                       |

```json
{
    "queries": ["notion vs obsidian", "best crm for startups"],
    "sort": "top",
    "time": "year",
    "maxItems": 200,
    "includeBody": true
}
```

#### How many posts can I get?

Reddit shows about **250 posts for one search with one sort order and time range**. Up to that, results follow your sort order exactly. When "Max posts per query" is higher, the Actor also searches the other sort orders and narrower time ranges (never wider than the one you picked) and keeps only new posts. For a popular keyword this goes well past 1,000 unique posts (a test for "chatgpt" found about 1,600 in 8 of the combinations). Posts beyond the first ~250 are no longer in one single order, and each row says which sort order and time range found it (`searchSort`, `searchTime`). When a search runs out of posts before your limit, the run's status message says how many were found.

### 💰 Pricing

Pay only for the posts you get. No monthly rental.

| Event           | Price                                | What you get                                           |
| --------------- | ------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Post**        | $0.0015 per post ($1.50 per 1,000)   | One post with all fields below, text included if on    |
| **Actor start** | $0.00005 per run                     | Charged once when the run starts.                      |

Examples: 1,000 posts = $1.50 · 10,000 posts = $15.00. The price is the same with or without the full post text. Posts that were removed before they could be opened are skipped and not charged.

### 📊 Sample Output Data

With "Include post text" on:

```json
{
    "id": "1vn54hk",
    "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/Notion/comments/1vn54hk/dont_put_anything_important_into_notion/",
    "title": "Don't put anything important into Notion",
    "author": "greatlove8704",
    "authorId": "t2_m5x5t1075",
    "subreddit": "Notion",
    "subredditId": "t5_hds7r",
    "score": 880,
    "numComments": 142,
    "createdAt": "2026-08-13T08:43:27.576Z",
    "isNsfw": false,
    "isSpoiler": false,
    "thumbnail": null,
    "body": "I'm working in a workspace together with teammates and a professor at university, researching AI agents together. Today the workspace suddenly got suspended, and everyone lost all their AI chats. …",
    "linkUrl": null,
    "query": "notion",
    "searchSort": "relevance",
    "searchTime": "all",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-20T07:01:12.310Z"
}
```

Without the option, rows have the same fields except `body` and `linkUrl`.

### ❓ FAQ

**Do I need a Reddit account or API key?** No.

**Are comments included?** No, this Actor saves posts. `numComments` gives each post's comment count.

**Why are some bodies empty?** Image, video and link posts often have no text (`linkUrl` then points to the media or page), and some communities, like r/AskReddit, use title-only posts.

**Is the upvote ratio included?** No. `score` (net upvotes) and `numComments` are included for every post.

**Are NSFW posts included?** Only when "Include NSFW posts" is on, and only those Reddit shows to visitors who are not logged in.

**Can I monitor a keyword every day?** Yes. Schedule the Actor with sort "New" and a "Posted after" date, and each run collects only recent posts.

# Actor input Schema

## `queries` (type: `array`):

Keywords to search Reddit posts for, one per line. Each query is searched separately.

## `subreddit` (type: `string`):

Optional. Search only inside one community, e.g. SaaS or https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/. Leave empty to search all of Reddit.

## `sort` (type: `string`):

Order of the search results.

## `time` (type: `string`):

Only posts from this period.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many posts for each query. One Reddit search order lists about 250 posts; above that, the Actor combines other orders and narrower time ranges to find more (see README).

## `includeBody` (type: `boolean`):

Add each post's full text and its outbound link (for link, image and video posts). A little slower; same price per post.

## `includeNsfw` (type: `boolean`):

Keep posts marked 18+.

## `postedAfter` (type: `string`):

Optional. Skip posts older than this date (YYYY-MM-DD). Handy for scheduled runs.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Residential proxies are needed for reliable results. The default works.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "chatgpt",
    "notion vs obsidian"
  ],
  "sort": "relevance",
  "time": "all",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "includeBody": false,
  "includeNsfw": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "queries": [
        "chatgpt"
    ],
    "maxItems": 50,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("piotrv1001/reddit-search-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "queries": ["chatgpt"],
    "maxItems": 50,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("piotrv1001/reddit-search-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "queries": [
    "chatgpt"
  ],
  "maxItems": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call piotrv1001/reddit-search-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,piotrv1001/reddit-search-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/LCKBXIyWfLhSOMQEJ/builds/pwCr9hwBCX1DTT6XD/openapi.json