Best Reddit Scrpaer

Get subreddit feeds, posts, full comment trees, search results, and user profiles from Reddit. This actor is powered live by the ScoutLayer API, so there's nothing to configure and no ScoutLayer account needed — just run it.

Features

• Subreddit Feed: Hot/new/top/rising listing for a subreddit, paginated
• Post: Title, body, score, author, and metadata for one post
• Post + Comments: A post plus its full comment tree, flattened with depth/parentId
• Search: Search all of Reddit or one subreddit, paginated
• User Profile: Karma, account age, and badges for a public user

Input

Scrape Type

Select the type of data to fetch using the scrapeType field:

Value	Description
subreddit	Fetch a subreddit's post feed
post	Fetch one post
comments	Fetch one post with its full comment tree
search	Search Reddit (or one subreddit)
user	Fetch a public user profile

All Input Fields

Field	Type	Required for	Default	Description
scrapeType	string	Always	subreddit	Scrape type (see table above)
subreddits	array	subreddit	—	Subreddit names or full URLs, e.g. ["programming"]
subredditSort	string	—	hot	hot, new, top, or rising
maxSubredditPages	integer	—	—	Max pages per subreddit. Falls back to maxPages if not set
postIds	array	post	—	Post IDs or full permalink URLs
commentPostIds	array	comments	—	Post IDs or full permalink URLs to fetch with comments
searchQueries	array	search	—	Search queries, e.g. ["typescript"]
searchSubreddit	string	—	—	Scope search to one subreddit instead of all of Reddit
searchSort	string	—	relevance	relevance, new, top, or comments
maxSearchPages	integer	—	—	Max result pages per query. Falls back to maxPages if not set
usernames	array	user	—	Usernames or full profile URLs
maxPages	integer	—	3	Global fallback max pages for subreddit/search when the type-specific limit is not set

Output

Results are stored in the dataset under the key results. The shape varies by scrape type.

Subreddit Feed / Search

Each result is one post, with page (added by the actor) indicating which page it appeared on.

{
  "subreddit": "programming",
  "subredditId": "t5_2fwo",
  "postId": "abc123",
  "title": "Show HN: my new project",
  "author": "someuser",
  "score": 1200,
  "upvoteRatio": 0.95,
  "numComments": 340,
  "url": "https://example.com/article",
  "selftext": "",
  "isSelf": false,
  "isVideo": false,
  "isStickied": false,
  "thumbnail": "https://b.thumbs.redditmedia.com/....jpg",
  "createdAt": "2026-08-10T00:00:00Z",
  "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/abc123/show_hn/",
  "flair": null,
  "domain": "example.com",
  "page": 1
}

Post

Same shape as a Subreddit Feed item above, without page.

Post + Comments

{
  "post": { "...": "same shape as Post above" },
  "comments": [
    {
      "postId": "abc123",
      "commentId": "def456",
      "parentId": "t3_abc123",
      "author": "commenter1",
      "body": "Great write-up!",
      "score": 42,
      "depth": 0,
      "createdAt": "2026-08-10T01:00:00Z",
      "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/abc123/show_hn/def456/",
      "isStickied": false
    }
  ]
}

User Profile

{
  "username": "spez",
  "userId": "1w72",
  "linkKarma": 150000,
  "commentKarma": 800000,
  "totalKarma": 950000,
  "createdAt": "2005-06-06T00:00:00Z",
  "isGold": true,
  "isMod": true,
  "iconImg": "https://styles.redditmedia.com/....png",
  "verified": true
}

Usage Examples

Fetch a subreddit's hot posts

{
  "scrapeType": "subreddit",
  "subreddits": ["programming", "typescript"],
  "subredditSort": "hot",
  "maxSubredditPages": 2
}

Fetch a post with its comments

{
  "scrapeType": "comments",
  "commentPostIds": ["abc123"]
}

Search one subreddit

{
  "scrapeType": "search",
  "searchQueries": ["typescript"],
  "searchSubreddit": "programming",
  "searchSort": "top"
}

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