Reddit Posts & Comments Scraper

Here is one real result, with the optional AI and author-profile add-ons enabled, showing every field the actor returns:

{
  "recordType": "post",
  "id": "1vwihzi",
  "subreddit": "technology",
  "subredditId": "t5_2qh16",
  "subredditPrefixed": "r/technology",
  "subredditType": "public",
  "title": "Cheap 'Guardian' interceptors developed by Florida start-up could turn tables on Iranian drones",
  "author": "Stukwan",
  "authorId": "t2_4m79xcva",
  "authorFlairText": null,
  "selftext": null,
  "body": null,
  "postType": "link",
  "url": "https://www.jpost.com/defense-and-tech/article-906338",
  "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1vwihzi/cheap_guardian_interceptors_developed_by_florida/",
  "domain": "jpost.com",
  "score": 64,
  "upvoteRatio": null,
  "numComments": 42,
  "numCrossposts": 0,
  "totalAwards": 0,
  "rank": 1,
  "isSelf": false,
  "isGallery": false,
  "isNsfw": false,
  "isSpoiler": false,
  "isPinned": false,
  "isLocked": false,
  "isArchived": false,
  "isEdited": false,
  "distinguished": null,
  "isOriginalContent": false,
  "promoted": false,
  "whitelistStatus": "all_ads",
  "thumbnail": "https://external-preview.redd.it/lkz74R3cUYq-x8sAheK2a0cSGTKyn3wegD7eVFqm5RQ.jpeg?width=140&height=78",
  "mediaUrl": "https://external-preview.redd.it/lkz74R3cUYq-x8sAheK2a0cSGTKyn3wegD7eVFqm5RQ.jpeg?width=140&height=78",
  "mediaUrls": ["https://external-preview.redd.it/lkz74R3cUYq-x8sAheK2a0cSGTKyn3wegD7eVFqm5RQ.jpeg?width=140&height=78"],
  "createdAt": "2026-08-23T20:46:06.000Z",
  "observedAt": "2026-08-26T05:43:25.974Z",
  "authorKarma": 27297,
  "authorPostKarma": 25412,
  "authorCommentKarma": 1885,
  "authorCakeDay": "2019-09-18T19:49:49+00:00",
  "aiSentiment": "positive",
  "aiSentimentScore": 0.7,
  "aiSentimentRationale": "The post highlights affordable interceptors that could counter Iranian drones, suggesting a promising advancement in defense technology.",
  "aiSummary": "A Florida start-up has developed affordable 'Guardian' interceptors that could counter Iranian drones, potentially changing drone warfare.",
  "error": null
}

The most complete Reddit scraper on Apify. It returns every field Reddit exposes for each post and comment (score, upvote ratio, award counts, crosspost count, media URLs, flair, NSFW, spoiler, lock, archive, edit, pinned and OC flags), and adds fields competitors do not: post-author karma and cake day, plus optional AI sentiment and AI summaries computed in the same run. Fifteen input filters (subreddit feeds, Reddit search, direct post and user URLs, five sort orders including controversial, time window, post type, minimum score, comment depth and sort, NSFW toggle and a date range) let you target exactly the posts and comments you need. This is an HTTP-only scraper, so runs are fast and do not spend a browser-tier compute charge on your account.

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Table of contents

• What it does
• How we compare
• Use cases
• Quickstart
• Input reference
• Output reference
• Example output record
• Run via API and CLI
• Fetch results
• Billing and limits
• FAQ and troubleshooting

What it does

This is a Reddit scraper and Reddit data API: it pulls posts and comments from any subreddit feed, from a Reddit search query, or from direct post and user URLs, applies the filters you pass as input, and writes one normalized record per post to the run's dataset. When Include Comments is enabled it also fetches each post's full comment tree (with reply depth and parent id) and emits one record per comment. Timestamps are normalized to ISO 8601, missing source values are returned as null, and every post carries its full set of Reddit flags (self, link or media type, NSFW, spoiler, locked, archived, edited, pinned, original content) plus score, upvote ratio, comment count and crosspost count so you can sort and filter without extra parsing.

Record types written to the dataset: post records and, when a direct user URL is scraped, user records (both charged as the result event); comment records (charged as the details event). Use recordType to tell them apart. Optional paid add-ons enrich each post in place: scrapeUserProfiles adds the author's karma and cake day, analyzeSentiment adds an AI sentiment label and score, and summarizePost adds a one-line AI summary.

How we compare

Reddit scrapers on Apify differ mostly in how many fields they return and whether they run in a browser. Here is an honest comparison with the most-used alternatives.

	scrapers_lat/reddit-scraper (this actor)	trudax/reddit-scraper-lite	trudax/reddit-scraper	bovi/reddit-scraper
Posts + full comment trees	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Subreddit feed + search + direct URLs	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Sort orders	hot, new, top, rising, controversial	hot, new, top, relevance, comments	hot, new, top, relevance, comments	hot, new, top
Upvote ratio, crosspost count, award count	Yes	Partial	Partial	Partial
Post-author karma + cake day (inline)	Yes (add-on)	No	No	Separate user records
AI sentiment + AI summary in the same run	Yes (add-on)	No	No	No
Comment depth + comment sort filters	Yes	Partial	Partial	Partial
Engine	HTTP-only (fast, no browser charge)	Headless browser	Headless browser	HTTP
Price per 1,000 posts	about $2.00	$3.40	$45/month rental + usage	$1.50
Adoption	Newer, growing	Largest (about 39k users)	About 14k users	Smaller

Where competitors win, honestly: trudax/reddit-scraper-lite has by far the largest user base and the longest track record, and bovi/reddit-scraper lists a lower per-result price and MCP support. Choose this actor when you want the richest per-post field set (upvote ratio, crosspost and award counts, author karma) and optional AI sentiment or summaries computed in the same run, without paying a browser-tier compute charge.

Use cases

• Market and sentiment research. Pull posts and comments for a product, ticker or topic across subreddits, then turn on analyzeSentiment to score how the community feels without a separate NLP step.
• Brand and reputation monitoring. Track mentions of your brand or competitors with search mode, filter by minScore to focus on posts gaining traction, and use createdAfter for daily monitoring.
• Trend and topic discovery. Read top, rising and controversial feeds with a time window to surface what is breaking out in a niche.
• Lead generation and audience research. Capture the authors behind high-scoring posts and, with scrapeUserProfiles, their karma and account age to qualify active, credible community members.
• Content sourcing and curation. Collect the highest-scoring posts and their media URLs for newsletters, dashboards or content pipelines.
• AI training and RAG datasets. Export clean JSON, CSV or Excel of posts and threaded comments to build datasets for models and retrieval systems.

Quickstart

Open the actor, paste this into the input, and press Run. It returns the 10 hottest posts in r/technology plus their top comments.

{
  "maxPosts": 10,
  "includeComments": true,
  "mode": "subreddit",
  "subreddits": ["technology"],
  "sort": "hot",
  "time": "day",
  "commentsLimit": 10,
  "commentSort": "top",
  "postType": "any",
  "excludeNsfw": false
}

Set includeComments to false to collect posts only. Switch mode to search and set searchQuery to query across Reddit instead of reading a subreddit feed.

Input reference

Every field is optional. With an empty input the actor reads the default subreddit feed.

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
maxPosts	integer	no	10	Maximum number of posts to collect across all sources.
includeComments	boolean	no	true	When enabled, also fetch each post's comments and emit one record per comment.
mode	enum	no	subreddit	Where to read posts from: subreddit (a community feed) or search (a query across Reddit).
subreddits	string[]	no	["technology"]	Subreddit names to scrape when mode is subreddit. Enter names without the r/ prefix, for example technology, worldnews.
startUrls	string[]	no	(empty)	Direct Reddit URLs to scrape: post links (.../comments/...), subreddit links (reddit.com/r/name) or user profiles (reddit.com/user/name). Works alongside or instead of the mode inputs.
searchQuery	string	no	(empty)	Search terms to query when mode is search, for example artificial intelligence.
searchSubreddit	string	no	(empty)	When mode is search, restrict the search to this single subreddit (name without r/). Empty searches all of Reddit.
sort	enum	no	hot	Sort order. Subreddit mode: hot, new, top, rising, controversial. Search mode: relevance, new, top, comments.
time	enum	no	day	Time window for top sort and search: hour, day, week, month, year, all. Ignored for hot, new and rising.
commentsLimit	integer	no	50	Maximum comments to collect per post when Include Comments is enabled.
commentSort	enum	no	top	How comments are ordered on each post: best, top, new, controversial, old, qa.
maxCommentDepth	integer	no	(all)	Only keep comments up to this reply nesting depth (0 = top-level only). Empty keeps all depths.
minScore	integer	no	(none)	Skip posts whose net vote score is below this number. Empty keeps every post.
postType	enum	no	any	Keep only one kind of post: text (self posts), link (external links) or media (image, gallery or video). any keeps all.
excludeNsfw	boolean	no	false	When enabled, posts flagged NSFW (over 18) are skipped.
createdAfter	string	no	(none)	Keep only posts created on or after this date, for example 2026-01-01 or a full ISO timestamp.
createdBefore	string	no	(none)	Keep only posts created on or before this date, for example 2026-06-30 or a full ISO timestamp.
scrapeUserProfiles	boolean	no	false	Paid add-on (paid Apify plans only). Add each post author's karma, cake day and verified/gold flags to the post record. Charged only when a profile is genuinely fetched.
analyzeSentiment	boolean	no	false	Paid add-on. Add an AI sentiment label (positive / neutral / negative), score and rationale per post. Charged only on usable AI output.
summarizePost	boolean	no	false	Paid add-on. Add a one to two sentence AI summary per post. Charged only on usable AI output.

Output reference

One dataset item per post or per comment. Use recordType to distinguish them. Types: string, integer, number, boolean, string[], or null when the source value is absent.

Field	Type	Description
recordType	string	post, comment or user.
id	string	Reddit thing id of the post or comment.
name	string	Username (user records from a direct user URL).
title	string	Post title (post records).
selftext	string	Body text of a self (text) post, or null.
body	string	Comment text (comment records), or null.
subreddit	string	Subreddit name without prefix.
subredditId	string	Reddit subreddit id (t5_...).
subredditPrefixed	string	Subreddit name with r/ prefix.
subredditType	string	Subreddit type, for example public.
author	string	Username of the post or comment author.
authorId	string	Reddit author id (t2_...).
authorFlairText	string	Author flair text, or null.
postType	string	text, link or media (post records).
url	string	Outbound or content URL of the post.
permalink	string	Full reddit.com permalink of the post or comment.
domain	string	Domain of the linked content.
score	integer	Net vote score.
upvoteRatio	number	Fraction of votes that are upvotes (post records).
numComments	integer	Comment count on the post.
numCrossposts	integer	Number of crossposts.
totalAwards	integer	Total awards received.
rank	integer	Position of the post within the collected feed.
linkFlair	string	Raw link flair, or null.
linkFlairText	string	Human-readable link flair text, or null.
isSelf	boolean	true for text (self) posts.
isGallery	boolean	true for gallery posts.
isVideo	boolean	true for native video posts.
isNsfw	boolean	true when the post is flagged NSFW.
over18	boolean	Reddit over_18 flag.
isSpoiler	boolean	true when marked spoiler.
spoiler	boolean	Raw spoiler flag.
isPinned	boolean	true when pinned.
isLocked	boolean	true when the post is locked.
locked	boolean	Raw locked flag.
isArchived	boolean	true when archived.
archived	boolean	Raw archived flag.
isEdited	boolean	true when the post or comment was edited.
editedAt	string	ISO 8601 edit timestamp, or null.
distinguished	string	Distinguished marker (moderator, admin), or null.
isOriginalContent	boolean	true when marked OC.
promoted	boolean	true when the post is a promoted/ad unit.
whitelistStatus	string	Reddit ad-whitelist status, for example all_ads.
thumbnail	string	Thumbnail image URL, or null.
mediaUrl	string	Primary media URL, or null.
mediaUrls	string[]	All media URLs on the post.
numReplies	integer	Number of direct replies (comment records).
postId	string	Parent post id (comment records).
postTitle	string	Parent post title (comment records).
parentId	string	Reddit id of the parent thing (comment records).
depth	integer	Reply nesting depth (comment records; 0 = top-level).
isSubmitter	boolean	true when the comment author is the post's OP.
isStickied	boolean	true when the comment is stickied.
createdAt	string	ISO 8601 creation timestamp.
observedAt	string	ISO 8601 timestamp of when the record was collected.
authorKarma	integer	Author total karma (post + comment). Populated only with the scrapeUserProfiles add-on, else null.
authorPostKarma	integer	Author post (link) karma, with the scrapeUserProfiles add-on.
authorCommentKarma	integer	Author comment karma, with the scrapeUserProfiles add-on.
authorCakeDay	string	Author account creation date (ISO 8601), with the scrapeUserProfiles add-on.
authorIsVerified	boolean	true when the author account is verified, else null.
authorIsGold	boolean	true when the author has Reddit premium/gold, else null.
aiSentiment	string	positive, neutral or negative. Populated only with the analyzeSentiment add-on, else null.
aiSentimentScore	number	Sentiment score from -1 to 1, with the analyzeSentiment add-on.
aiSentimentRationale	string	One-line explanation of the sentiment, with the analyzeSentiment add-on.
aiSummary	string	One to two sentence AI summary of the post, with the summarizePost add-on.
error	string	null on success. On a failed source, a single item with a populated error field is written instead.

Example output record

Real comment record from the same run (input {"subreddits": ["technology"], "includeComments": true}):

{
  "recordType": "comment",
  "id": "p2tcd3h",
  "body": "Anyone remember all the \"dating coaches\" in the early 2000s? What's old is new again.",
  "author": "RottenPingu1",
  "authorId": "t2_vr2wdzpw",
  "authorFlairText": null,
  "score": 503,
  "totalAwards": 0,
  "numReplies": 0,
  "postId": "1vkhkcw",
  "postTitle": "The 'Manosphere' Isn't a Movement. It's a Multibillion-Dollar Grievance Industry | Many young men are driven to resentment and are financially exploited as influencers sell them classes, pills, and the illusion of clout, a new report reveals.",
  "subreddit": "technology",
  "subredditId": "t5_2qh16",
  "subredditType": "public",
  "parentId": "t3_1vkhkcw",
  "depth": 0,
  "isSubmitter": false,
  "isStickied": false,
  "isEdited": false,
  "editedAt": null,
  "distinguished": null,
  "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1vkhkcw/the_manosphere_isnt_a_movement_its_a/p2tcd3h/",
  "createdAt": "2026-08-10T11:20:25+00:00",
  "observedAt": "2026-08-10T14:40:49.980Z",
  "error": null
}

Run via API and CLI

Start a run and wait for it to finish, then read the dataset. Replace <TOKEN> with your Apify API token.

Run synchronously and get dataset items in one call:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/scrapers_lat~reddit-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"mode":"subreddit","subreddits":["technology"],"sort":"hot","maxPosts":25,"includeComments":false}'

Start a run asynchronously:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/scrapers_lat~reddit-scraper/runs?token=<TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"mode":"search","searchQuery":"artificial intelligence","sort":"top","time":"week","maxPosts":100,"analyzeSentiment":true}'

Apify CLI:

apify call scrapers_lat/reddit-scraper \
  --input '{"subreddits":["worldnews"],"sort":"top","time":"day","includeComments":true,"commentsLimit":20}'

Fetch results

Every run writes to a dataset. Fetch items as JSON, CSV, or Excel by changing format:

# JSON
curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<DATASET_ID>/items?token=<TOKEN>&clean=true&format=json"

# CSV
curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<DATASET_ID>/items?token=<TOKEN>&clean=true&format=csv"

# Paginate large datasets
curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<DATASET_ID>/items?token=<TOKEN>&offset=1000&limit=1000"

<DATASET_ID> is returned as defaultDatasetId in the run object. Use offset and limit to page through large result sets. clean=true drops empty and internal fields.

Billing and limits

• Pay per result. Post and user records are charged as the result event; comment records are charged as the details event. See the pricing tab for the current per-record prices.
• Optional add-on events. scrapeUserProfiles charges a user_profile event only when an author profile is genuinely fetched; analyzeSentiment and summarizePost charge ai_sentiment and ai_summary events only when the model returns usable output. All three are off by default.
• No charge on failure. If a source errors, the actor writes a single item with a populated error field and does not charge for it. Empty runs cost nothing. An add-on that returns nothing is never charged.
• Spend cap respected. Set maxTotalChargeUsd on the run; once reached, the actor stops emitting and charging further billable records.
• Free Apify plans are capped at 10 posts per run, and the paid add-ons are disabled for free accounts. Upgrade for higher maxPosts and the enrichment add-ons.
• Comments are optional. Set includeComments to false to collect and pay for posts only.

FAQ and troubleshooting

A run returned 0 records. Why? The subreddit is empty or private, the search matched nothing, or your filters (for example minScore, postType, excludeNsfw or the date range) excluded everything. Loosen the filters or confirm the subreddit name. Zero-result runs are not charged.

How do I collect posts without comments? Set includeComments to false. Only post records are written and only the result event is charged.

What is the difference between subreddit mode and search mode? Subreddit mode reads a community feed (r/<name>) using hot, new, top, rising or controversial. Search mode queries across Reddit (or a single subreddit via searchSubreddit) using relevance, new, top or comments.

How do I limit comment depth? Set maxCommentDepth. 0 keeps only top-level comments; a higher number keeps deeper replies. Leave it empty to keep the full tree up to commentsLimit.

Why is selftext null on some posts? Only text (self) posts carry selftext. Link and media posts have their content in url, mediaUrl and mediaUrls instead.

How do I get sentiment or summaries? Turn on analyzeSentiment and summarizePost (paid Apify plans). Each post then carries aiSentiment, aiSentimentScore, aiSentimentRationale and aiSummary. These run in the same pass, so you do not need a second tool or a separate NLP pipeline.

Can I scrape specific posts or a user by URL? Yes. Put post links, subreddit links or user profile links in startUrls. Post links return the full post plus comments; user links return a user record with karma and cake day. For bulk user-history scraping, see the dedicated Reddit User Scraper.

Is it fast? Does it use a browser? It is HTTP-only, so it does not launch a headless browser and does not add a browser-tier compute charge to your account. Reddit rate-limits automated traffic, so the actor routes through rotating residential IPs and retries when Reddit serves its interstitial. Occasionally a single source can still be rate-limited within a run; that source is written as an error item and is not charged, and re-running usually clears it.

Is this an official Reddit tool? No. This actor is independent and has no affiliation with Reddit. It reads only data that is publicly available on Reddit. Use it in accordance with Reddit's terms.

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