Reddit User Profile Scraper — Public Profiles and Activity

Collect public Reddit user profiles and their submitted posts or comments. Export available profile metadata, karma and activity records for community research and 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.

{
  "usernames": [
    "GovSchwarzenegger"
  ],
  "section": "submitted",
  "includeProfile": true,
  "maxPosts": 20,
  "maxItems": 21
}

Example tasks

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

• Export public posts by a Reddit user
• Analyze public comments by a Reddit user
• Compare activity across public Reddit accounts
• Export Reddit comment history without profile rows
• Research a public Reddit account post history
• Prepare public Reddit user comments for AI analysis

Inputs

Input	Type	Purpose
usernames	array	List of Reddit usernames to scrape (without the u/ prefix).
section	string	Which part of the user's history to collect.
maxPosts	integer	Maximum number of posts or comments to collect per username.
includeProfile	boolean	Include the user's profile info (karma, bio, account age, badges) as an extra item.
maxItems	integer	Maximum total dataset rows across all inputs, including any profile, community or original-post rows.

Output fields

Field	Description
dataType	user, post, or comment
username	The Reddit account being scraped
url	Profile URL or permalink to the post/comment
userIcon / bannerUrl	Profile avatar and banner image URLs (profile items)
bio	User's public bio/description (profile items)
postKarma / commentKarma / totalKarma	Karma breakdown (profile items)
isGold / isMod / isVerified / isEmployee	Account status flags (profile items)
title	Post title (post items)
body	Post or comment text
communityName	Subreddit the post/comment belongs to
upVotes	Score of the post or comment
numberOfComments	Comment count (post items)
flair	Post flair (post items)
depth	Comment nesting depth (comment items)
over18	NSFW flag (profile/post items)
createdAt	Creation timestamp (ISO format)
scrapedAt	Time the data was scraped

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.