Reddit Best of Top Posts Archive Scraper

What does Reddit Best of Calendar Top Posts Scraper do?

Reddit Best of Calendar Top Posts Scraper extracts platform-wide top posts from Reddit's public Best of archive. It ranks posts across all subreddits for a real calendar year, month, or day, with language tabs (German, English, Spanish, and more). Paste an archive URL — or set year / month / day / language — and export rank, title, subreddit, upvotes, comments, timestamps, and thumbnails as JSON, CSV, or Excel. No Reddit login or API key.

This is not a rolling t=year subreddit feed and not r/popular. Best of is Reddit's own calendar ranking (for example 7 January 2026 in German).

What can this Reddit Best of scraper do?

• Calendar windows — Year, month, or a single day, not the last 365 rolling days.
• Language slices — All (global), German, English, Spanish, Filipino, French, Hindi, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Swedish, Thai.
• Cross-subreddit ranking — See what performed on the whole platform, not one community.
• Structured fields — Rank, post id, title, URL, subreddit, score, comment count, created time, spoiler flag, thumbnail.
• Apify platform — Schedule daily pulls, export JSON/CSV/Excel, call the Actor via API, or connect n8n, Make, and Zapier.

Why scrape Reddit Best of posts?

Use cases for Reddit top posts by date and Best of Reddit data:

1. Trend research — See which stories actually won a given day or month, not a rolling window that mixes old and new posts.
2. Newsroom monitoring — Track German, Spanish, or French viral posts that English dashboards miss.
3. Brand and crisis watch — Capture high-score threads that mention a product, politician, or city on a specific date.
4. Content ideation — Mine titles and thumbnails that already proved they can rank platform-wide.
5. Social listening — Build a historical corpus of top posts by language for NLP and topic models.
6. Competitor media analysis — Compare which subreddits dominate Best of in a market (for example r/de vs r/Austria).
7. Academic / market research — Reproducible calendar slices for papers and reports.
8. Newsletter and roundup bots — Automate “top Reddit posts this week in Italian” without a custom crawler.
9. Ad and influencer scouting — Find communities that repeatedly land on Best of.
10. Moderation and trust & safety research — Study spoiler-tagged or high-comment outliers on peak days.
11. SEO and culture desks — Map which topics Google and Reddit both amplify in a language.
12. Dataset building — Export clean JSON for RAG, classification, or internal dashboards.

What data can you extract from Reddit Best of?

Field	Description
rank	Position on the Best of page (1 = top)
id	Reddit post id
title	Post title
url	Public post URL
subreddit	Community name
subredditUrl	Community URL
createdAt	Post timestamp
score	Upvote score
numComments	Comment count
imageUrl	Thumbnail when Reddit shows one
isSpoiler	Spoiler tag
language	Archive language code (de, en, global, …)
year / month / day	Calendar period of the archive page
periodType	year, month, or day
sourceUrl	Archive URL that produced the row

You can download the dataset in JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel from the Actor run.

How to scrape Reddit top posts by day, month, or year

1. Open Reddit Best of Calendar Top Posts Scraper in Apify Console.
2. Add Best of archive URLs under Start URLs, or set Year (optional Month, Day, Language).
3. Set Maximum items (posts per start URL). Default 5 is a cheap test; each archive page lists up to 250 posts.
4. Click Start and download results from the dataset tab.

Example URLs:

• Year (German): https://www.reddit.com/posts/2026/de
• Month (German): https://www.reddit.com/posts/2026/january/de/
• Day (German): https://www.reddit.com/posts/2026/january-7-1/de/
• All languages: https://www.reddit.com/posts/2026/global/

How much does it cost to scrape Reddit Best of?

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing. You are charged a small start fee plus one event per saved post (result-item). The Apify free plan is enough for a test run of a few posts. Scale to hundreds of calendar pages with a paid plan. Exact Store prices are on the Actor's Pricing tab.

Keep maxItems at 3–5 while you try the Actor. Year, month, and day pages are separate rankings — scrape only the window you need.

Input

See the Input tab. Main fields:

• Start URLs — Best of pages under reddit.com/posts/{year}/…
• Year / Month / Day / Language — Optional builders when you do not want to paste URLs
• Maximum items — Cap per archive URL
• Proxy configuration — Optional; the public archive usually works without a proxy

Output example

{
  "id": "1qg8oit",
  "rank": 1,
  "title": "Ich bin Samuel, 21, leide an ME/CFS und in 12 Tagen sterbe ich.",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/Austria/comments/1qg8oit/ich_bin_samuel_21_leide_an_mecfs_und_in_12_tagen/",
  "subreddit": "Austria",
  "score": 21000,
  "numComments": 1600,
  "language": "de",
  "year": 2026,
  "month": null,
  "day": null,
  "periodType": "year"
}

Tips

• Use a day URL for a specific calendar date; month and year pages rank independently.
• global is the All language tab.
• Combine several start URLs (for example English year + German January) — maxItems applies per URL.
• Schedule a monthly run on the current year archive to keep a living “Best of” feed.

FAQ

Is this the same as scraping r/all or r/popular?

No. Those feeds are live or rolling. This Actor reads Reddit's Best of archive for a named year, month, or day, including language tabs.

Do I need a Reddit API key or login?

No. Only public Best of pages are used.

Is it legal to scrape Reddit Best of?

The Actor only reads public archive pages. Results can include usernames and post text that people chose to share. Personal data is protected by GDPR and other laws. Scrape only with a legitimate purpose, respect Reddit's terms, and get legal advice if you are unsure.

How many posts are on each page?

A Best of archive page typically lists up to 250 ranked posts. There is no extra pagination on that page.

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Support

Open the Issues tab on this Actor if something breaks. Feature requests (more languages, extra fields) are welcome.

Image Credit

Image credit: reddit.com