Reddit Scraper Lite

🧠 Reddit Scraper Lite

Pay Per Result, unlimited Reddit web scraper to crawl posts, comments, communities, and users without login. Limit web scraping by number of posts or items and extract all data in a dataset in multiple formats.

✅ Use Cases

📌 Scrape subreddits (communities) with top posts

📋 Scrape Reddit posts with title and text, username, number of comments, votes, media elements

💬 Get Reddit comments, timestamps, points, usernames, post and comment URLs

👥 Scrape user details, their most recent posts and comments

🔍 Sort scraped data by categories of Relevance, Hot, Top, and New

🌐 Scrape data using a specific URL or by keyword

📥 Input Configuration

You can customize the actor using the following input fields:

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/pasta/comments/vwi6jx/pasta_peperoni_and_ricotta_cheese_how_to_make/"
    }
  ],
  "skipComments": false,
  "skipUserPosts": false,
  "skipCommunity": false,
  "ignoreStartUrls": false,
  "searchPosts": true,
  "searchComments": false,
  "searchCommunities": false,
  "searchUsers": false,
  "sort": "new",
  "includeNSFW": true,
  "maxItems": 10,
  "maxPostCount": 10,
  "maxComments": 10,
  "maxCommunitiesCount": 2,
  "maxUserCount": 2,
  "scrollTimeout": 40,
  "subreddit": "news",
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  },
  "debugMode": false
}

🧾 Fields Explained Field Type Description startUrls array URLs of Reddit pages to scrape skipComments boolean Skip scraping comments skipUserPosts boolean Skip scraping user posts skipCommunity boolean Skip scraping community info searchPosts boolean Search for posts searchComments boolean Search for comments searchCommunities boolean Search for communities searchUsers boolean Search for users sort string Sort by Relevance, Hot, Top, New, Comments includeNSFW boolean Include NSFW content maxItems integer Maximum items to save maxPostCount integer Maximum posts per page maxComments integer Maximum comments per page maxCommunitiesCount integer Maximum community pages maxUserCount integer Maximum user pages scrollTimeout integer Page scroll timeout in seconds subreddit string Name of subreddit to scrape (without r/ prefix) proxy object Proxy configuration debugMode boolean Enable debug logs 📤 Output

The actor returns a dataset containing Reddit posts, comments, communities, and user data.

🧩 Sample Outputs

📝 Reddit Post

{
  "id": "t3_144w7sn",
  "parsedId": "144w7sn",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/HonkaiStarRail/comments/144w7sn/my_luckiest_10x_pull_yet/",
  "username": "YourKingLives",
  "title": "My Luckiest 10x Pull Yet",
  "communityName": "r/HonkaiStarRail",
  "parsedCommunityName": "HonkaiStarRail",
  "body": "URL: https://i.redd.it/yod3okjkgx4b1.jpg\nThumbnail: https://b.thumbs.redditmedia.com/lm9KxS4laQWgx4uOoioM3N7-tBK3GLPrxb9da2hGtjs.jpg\nImages:\n\thttps://preview.redd.it/yod3okjkgx4b1.jpg?auto=webp&v=enabled&s=be5faf0250e19138b82c7bbe5e7406fa46da4e73\n",
  "html": null,
  "numberOfComments": 0,
  "upVotes": 1,
  "isVideo": false,
  "isAd": false,
  "over18": false,
  "createdAt": "2023-06-09T05:23:15.000Z",
  "scrapedAt": "2023-06-09T05:23:28.409Z",
  "dataType": "post"
}

💬 Reddit Comment

{
  "id": "t1_jnhqrgg",
  "parsedId": "jnhqrgg",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/NewsWithJingjing/comments/144v5c3/theres_no_flag_large_enough/jnhqrgg/",
  "parentId": "t3_144v5c3",
  "username": "smokecat20",
  "category": "NewsWithJingjing",
  "communityName": "r/NewsWithJingjing",
  "body": "A true patriot.",
  "createdAt": "2023-06-09T05:00:00.000Z",
  "scrapedAt": "2023-06-09T05:23:32.025Z",
  "upVotes": 3,
  "numberOfreplies": 0,
  "html": "<div class=\"md\"><p>A true patriot.</p>\n</div>",
  "dataType": "comment"
}

👥 Reddit Community

{
  "id": "2qlhq",
  "name": "t5_2qlhq",
  "title": "Pizza",
  "headerImage": "https://b.thumbs.redditmedia.com/jq9ytPEOecwd5bmGIvNQzjTPE9hdd0kB9XGa--wq55A.png",
  "description": "The home of pizza on reddit. An educational community devoted to the art of pizza making.",
  "over18": false,
  "createdAt": "2008-08-26T00:03:48.000Z",
  "scrapedAt": "2023-06-09T05:16:55.443Z",
  "numberOfMembers": 569724,
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/Pizza/",
  "dataType": "community"
}

👤 Reddit User

{
  "id": "c3h2qmv",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/user/jancurn/",
  "username": "jancurn",
  "userIcon": "https://www.redditstatic.com/avatars/defaults/v2/avatar_default_7.png",
  "postKarma": 4,
  "commentKarma": 10,
  "description": "",
  "over18": false,
  "createdAt": "2018-09-10T15:13:39.000Z",
  "scrapedAt": "2023-06-09T05:21:14.409Z",
  "dataType": "user"
}

🔒 Proxy Configuration

This actor uses Apify Proxy automatically to:

Avoid IP-based rate limiting or bans

Access Reddit data reliably

Ensure stable scraping at scale

Default proxy settings use:

{
  "useApifyProxy": true,
  "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
}

🚀 How to Use

Open the actor in Apify Console

Click "Try actor" or create a new task

Enter your desired Reddit URLs or search terms

Configure scraping options

Run the actor

Download your Reddit data in JSON, CSV, or Excel format

⚙️ Advanced Input Example

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/"
    }
  ],
  "skipComments": false,
  "searchPosts": true,
  "sort": "hot",
  "includeNSFW": false,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "maxComments": 50,
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  },
  "debugMode": false
}

🛠️ Tech Stack

🧩 Apify SDK — for actor and data handling

🕷️ Crawlee — for robust crawling and scraping

🌐 Puppeteer — for browser automation and rendering dynamic content

⚙️ Node.js — fast, scalable backend environment