Reddit Posts Scraper — Subreddit Posts and Community Data

Export public subreddit posts with titles, text, scores, comment counts, author names and available media. Compare communities, follow new discussions or collect top posts for research.

Quick start

1. Open an example below or enter your own public Reddit targets.
2. Choose a per-target result limit and maxItems for the whole run.
3. Run the Actor and export the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel.

{
  "subreddits": [
    "Python"
  ],
  "sort": "new",
  "maxPostCount": 20,
  "maxItems": 20
}

Example tasks

Copy a ready-to-use configuration and customize its targets or limits:

• Monitor recent Python posts on Reddit
• Find top technology posts from the past week
• Research small business questions on Reddit
• Compare posts across developer communities
• Discover rising gaming discussions on Reddit
• Export public Reddit community metadata and posts

Inputs

Input	Type	Purpose
subreddits	array	Subreddit names to scrape (without the r/ prefix, e.g. 'python').
sort	string	Sort order for posts. Ignored if 'Scrape all sorts' is enabled.
time	string	Time period for 'top' and 'controversial' sorts.
maxPostCount	integer	Maximum number of posts to collect per subreddit (per sort, if 'Scrape all sorts' is enabled).
postDateLimit	string	Only collect posts newer than this date (format YYYY-MM-DD). Leave empty to disable. Forces sort to 'new'.
scrapeAllSorts	boolean	Scrape every sort (hot, new, top for all time periods, controversial, rising) for each subreddit instead of just one sort.
includeNSFW	boolean	Include posts marked as NSFW/over 18.
includeCommunityInfo	boolean	Include one extra item per subreddit with community metadata (subscriber count, description, icons, etc.). Costs one additional request per subreddit.
maxItems	integer	Maximum total dataset rows across all inputs, including any profile, community or original-post rows.

Output fields

Field	Description
id / parsedId	Reddit's internal post ID
url	Direct link to the post
username	Post author
title	Post title
communityName	Subreddit name (e.g. r/python)
subredditSubscribers	Subscriber count of the subreddit
body	Post text content (self-posts)
html	Rendered HTML of the post body
link	External link (for link posts)
domain	Source domain of the linked content
numberOfComments	Total comment count
numberOfCrossposts	Number of times the post was crossposted
flair	Post flair tag
authorFlair	Author's flair in the subreddit
upVotes / upVoteRatio	Post score and like ratio
isSelf / isVideo / isStickied / isLocked / isSpoiler / isOriginalContent	Post type flags
over18	NSFW flag
videoUrl, videoDuration, videoWidth, videoHeight	Video metadata (if applicable)
thumbnailUrl, thumbnailWidth, thumbnailHeight	Thumbnail metadata
imageUrls	Array of image URLs (galleries and previews)
createdAt	Post creation timestamp (ISO format)
scrapedAt	Time the data was scraped
dataType	post or community

Optional fields depend on the record type and what Reddit makes public. Deleted authors, unavailable media and absent profile details can have empty values. Scores and comment counts are snapshots, not permanent totals.

API, MCP and AI workflows

Use the Actor through the Apify API or select it in the Apify MCP server. An AI agent can supply the same JSON inputs shown above, then use the returned dataset for summarization, classification or research. Sentiment analysis and summaries are downstream tasks; this Actor returns source data.

Connect datasets to n8n, Make, Zapier or your own Python and JavaScript workflows. Use Apify schedules for recurring runs and webhooks to trigger processing after completion. ChatGPT, Claude and LangChain workflows can consume the exported data through their configured integrations.

Limits and frequently asked questions

Do I need a Reddit account? No Reddit login or personal Reddit API key is required. Apify API calls require your own Apify token.

How many results can I collect? The free allowance is 25 dataset rows. Paid runs honor your input and platform result limits, with a 100,000-row dataset ceiling. Per-target limits do not override the total cap. Set your Apify run timeout and budget to suit the job.

Does a requested maximum guarantee that many rows? No. Public availability, source pagination, filtering, duplicate removal and deleted content can reduce the count. This is not a complete historical archive.

Are results unique? IDs are deduplicated across the inputs in a run. Separate new runs can return the same records; use their IDs when maintaining a historical database.

Can bulk runs continue while producing results? Yes. There is no fixed internal runtime, request-count or page-count cutoff. Requested result limits still apply. Repeated failures, unavailable data or pagination without progress stop collection while preserving confirmed results.

What does resume mean? Saved checkpoints support continuation of the same run. Starting a fresh run creates a new dataset and does not automatically resume an older run.

What is the price? Check the current Pricing tab on this Actor. Your plan, result allowance and run budget determine which limits apply.