Fast Reddit Scraper A lightning-fast, lightweight, and cost-effective Reddit scraper that extracts posts, user discussions, high-res images, thumbnails, comments, and media from subreddits and search queries using Reddit's internal JSON API. ## Features

• Images & Media Extraction: Automatically extracts high-resolution post images, media links, and thumbnails.
• No Reddit API Credentials Required: Works out of the box using public JSON & Atom endpoints.
• Subreddits & Search: Scrape by subreddit name, Reddit URL, or search keywords.
• Top Discussions & Comments: Extract threaded comments, authors, timestamps, and karma scores.
• Flexible Sorting: Filter by Hot, New, Top, Rising, or Relevance, with customizable time windows (All time, Past year, Past month, Past week, Past 24h).
• Apify Proxy Integrated: Seamlessly integrates with Apify datacenter and residential proxies. ## Input Parameters
• subreddits: List of subreddits to scrape (e.g. ["technology", "artificial"])
• searchQueries: Optional search terms across Reddit
• sort: Sorting criteria (hot, new, top, rising, relevance)
• time: Time window for Top posts or search (all, year, month, week, day, hour)
• maxItems: Maximum number of posts to retrieve (default: 50)
• scrapeComments: Boolean to enable/disable comment extraction
• maxCommentsPerPost: Maximum comments per post (default: 10) ## Output Data Sample

{ "id": "1o2p3q", "title": "Exciting breakthroughs in AI and robotics", "author": "tech_enthusiast", "subreddit": "technology", "score": 1420, "upvoteRatio": 0.94, "numComments": 85, "selftext": "Summary of the latest announcements...", "url": "https://i.redd.it/sample_image.png", "thumbnail": "https://b.thumbs.redditmedia.com/sample_thumb.jpg", "imageUrl": "https://i.redd.it/sample_image.png", "permalink": "https://reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1o2p3q/...", "createdAt": "2026-10-13T09:30:00.000Z", "isNsfw": false, "comments": [ { "id": "c1a2b3", "author": "commenter_one", "body": "This is a game changer for automation.", "score": 128, "createdAt": "2026-10-13T09:45:00.000Z" } ]
}