Reddit Scraper for Leads & Pain Points

Scrape Reddit posts, comments, communities, profiles, leaderboards, and search results for market research, lead discovery, social listening, and pain point monitoring.

Best for

• Founders and growth teams finding repeated pain points and buying intent
• Market researchers monitoring category discussions and competitor mentions
• Community analysts collecting posts, comments, authors, and subreddit context
• AI workflows that need clean source URLs, text, scores, and discussion metadata

Quick start

Use search mode for a stable lead-research run:

{
  "searchQueries": ["web scraping proxy blocked", "youtube scraper blocked"],
  "searchScope": "posts",
  "sortOrder": "relevance",
  "timeWindow": "month",
  "totalItemCap": 25,
  "postCap": 25,
  "commentCap": 0,
  "lightExtract": true,
  "enableDeduplication": true,
  "failOnNoResults": true,
  "useApifyProxy": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}

Use direct URLs when you already know the subreddit, post, profile, or leaderboard page:

{
  "startLinks": [
    { "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/" }
  ],
  "totalItemCap": 50,
  "postCap": 50,
  "commentCap": 5,
  "scrollWaitSeconds": 1,
  "failOnNoResults": true,
  "useApifyProxy": true
}

Common workflows

• Pain point mining: search for complaints, blockers, alternatives, and recommendations; export headline, textBody, permalink, and scores.
• Competitor monitoring: track mentions of competitors across subreddits and time windows.
• Community research: collect posts and comments from specific subreddits, profiles, leaderboards, or multireddits.
• AI source collection: keep sourceInput, permalink, author, subreddit, and timestamps for traceable summaries.

Useful input fields

Field	Use
searchQueries	One or more Reddit search queries.
searchScope	Search posts, comments, communities, or profiles.
sortOrder, timeWindow	Control relevance and recency.
startLinks	Direct Reddit URLs.
totalItemCap, postCap, commentCap	Keep costs and runtime bounded.
lightExtract	Faster records for lead and pain point monitoring.
enablePagination	Continue beyond first pages when needed.
useApifyProxy	Recommended for cloud runs.

Output fields

The dataset can include:

• headline
• textBody
• permalink
• communityName
• communityTag
• author
• score
• voteScore
• commentTotal
• publishedAt
• comments
• profileUrl
• sourceInput
• listingUrl
• scrapedAt

Settings that convert best

• Prefer focused searchQueries over broad subreddit crawls for first runs.
• Start with lightExtract: true and commentCap: 0.
• Add comments only after the post-level output looks useful.
• Use failOnNoResults: true for scheduled monitoring.
• Keep caps explicit so runs cannot grow unexpectedly.

Limitations

Reddit can block, delay, or alter public responses. The Actor uses fallback paths, but some records can be partial. Keep source URLs, timestamps, and quality warnings when feeding results to AI, CRM, or dashboards.

Support

If a run returns unexpected data, open an issue from the Actor page with the input used, the run ID, and the result you expected.