Reddit Search Scraper — Keyword Research and Social Listening

Search public Reddit posts by keyword across Reddit or within a chosen subreddit. Export matching discussions for product research, brand monitoring and AI-assisted analysis.

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.

{
  "searchQueries": [
    "best budget headphones"
  ],
  "sort": "relevance",
  "maxResults": 20,
  "maxItems": 20
}

Example tasks

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

• Find Reddit headphone recommendations
• Find recent remote work discussions on Reddit
• Research SaaS customer problems on Reddit
• Compare ChatGPT and Claude discussions
• Find top electric car posts from the past month
• Find active productivity conversations on Reddit

Inputs

Input	Type	Purpose
searchQueries	array	Keywords or phrases to search for on Reddit. One per line. Each query runs as a separate search.
searchCommunity	string	Limit the search to a single subreddit, e.g. 'AskReddit'. Leave empty to search all of Reddit.
sort	string	How to order search results.
time	string	Restrict results to posts from this time range.
maxResults	integer	Maximum number of results to collect for each search query.
includeNSFW	boolean	Include posts marked as NSFW/over-18 in the results.
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 matching post
username	Post author
title	Post title
communityName	Subreddit the post belongs to
subredditSubscribers	Subscriber count of that subreddit
body	Post text content
html	Rendered HTML of the post body
link	External link (for link posts)
domain	Source domain of linked content
numberOfComments	Total comment count
flair	Post flair tag
upVotes / upVoteRatio	Post score and like ratio
isSelf / isVideo / isStickied / isLocked / isSpoiler	Post type flags
over18	NSFW flag
videoUrl, videoDuration	Video metadata (if applicable)
thumbnailUrl	Thumbnail image URL
imageUrls	Array of image URLs
createdAt	Post creation timestamp (ISO format)
scrapedAt	Time the data was scraped
dataType	Always post for search results

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.