Reddit Comment Scraper Plus 🔴💬

Scrape Reddit comments and replies at scale from any post, subreddit or user, with real timestamps, the parent post record, full thread metadata (OP flag, awards, flair, distinguished, depth), powerful filters, derived analytics and optional AI enrichment (sentiment, emotion, topics, language, toxicity).

Built on Reddit's public JSON API (no login) — Reddit comment scraper, Reddit comments export, Reddit thread scraper, Reddit data extraction, Reddit sentiment analysis, Reddit market research, Reddit API alternative.

Features

• ✅ Comments + threaded replies — every reply is labelled type="reply", isReply=true, linked to its parent via parentId, and interleaved right after its parent comment.
• ✅ Real creation dates — createdAt emitted as ISO-8601 (the base scraper left this empty).
• ✅ Post/submission record — one type="post" row per post with title, selftext, score, upvoteRatio, numComments, author and date.
• ✅ Rich harvested metadata — isSubmitter (OP), distinguished, stickied, authorFlair, authorFullname, controversiality, depth, gilded, awardCount, locked, archived, subreddit, bodyHtml, edited/editedAt.
• ✅ Filters — include/exclude keywords, minimum score, oldest date (absolute or relative), exclude deleted/removed, exclude AutoModerator, only-OP.
• ✅ Derived analytics — ageHours, replyCount, isTopLevel, wordCount, engagementScore (score ÷ age).
• ✅ Discovery — paste a subreddit or user URL to auto-discover and scrape its recent posts.
• ✅ Per-run replies dataset — reply rows are mirrored to a separate replies-<runId> dataset.
• ✅ Optional AI enrichment — sentiment, emotion, topics, language, toxicityScore via Anthropic / OpenAI / Google / xAI / DeepSeek / Perplexity / Mistral (auto-detected from the model name). Off by default.
• ✅ Proxy honored — your proxy selection is used exactly (residential recommended for Reddit).

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
startUrls	array	—	Post, subreddit or user URLs (also bare post IDs / redd.it links).
sortOrder	enum	top	best · top · new · controversial · old · qa · hot.
maxComments	integer	50	Max top-level comments per post (0 = unlimited).
includeReplies	boolean	true	Collect nested replies.
maxRepliesPerComment	integer	10	Max reply rows per top-level comment (0 = unlimited).
includePost	boolean	true	Emit the post/submission record.
maxPosts	integer	10	Posts to auto-discover from a subreddit/user URL.
keywords / excludeKeywords	array	—	Keep / drop comments by text (case-insensitive).
minScore	integer	0	Minimum comment score (upvotes).
oldestDate	date	—	Keep comments on/after this date (absolute or relative, e.g. 7 days).
excludeDeleted	boolean	false	Skip [deleted]/[removed].
excludeAutoMod	boolean	false	Skip AutoModerator.
onlyOP	boolean	false	Keep only the original poster's comments.
aiEnhancement / aiModel / aiApiKey	—	off	Optional LLM enrichment.
proxyConfiguration	object	residential	Proxy settings (honored exactly).

Example

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1epeshq/these_are_all_ai/" }],
  "sortOrder": "top",
  "maxComments": 50,
  "includeReplies": true,
  "maxRepliesPerComment": 10,
  "includePost": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}

Output

Each row is a post, comment or reply (see the type column). Key fields:

type · isReply · isTopLevel · subreddit · title · commentId · postId · parentId · author · authorFullname · authorFlair · isSubmitter · distinguished · stickied · createdAt · edited · editedAt · upvotes · upvoteRatio (post) · numComments (post) · controversiality · depth · gilded · awardCount · locked · archived · contentText · bodyHtml · permalink · userUrl · url · ageHours · replyCount · wordCount · engagementScore · sentiment · emotion · language · topics · toxicityScore · scrapedAt.

Reply rows are additionally mirrored to a per-run replies-<runId> dataset.

How to use

1. Open the Actor in the Apify Console.
2. Paste one or more Reddit URLs into Reddit URLs.
3. Adjust comment/reply limits, filters and (optionally) AI enrichment.
4. Keep the residential proxy for reliable Reddit access.
5. Run, then view results in the Output table or export to JSON/CSV/Excel.

Notes & compliance

• Uses only publicly available Reddit content; no login, no private data.
• Reddit rate-limits datacenter IPs on its JSON endpoints — residential proxy is recommended.
• Genuinely unavailable values are emitted as null, never faked.
• You are responsible for complying with Reddit's Terms of Service and applicable data/privacy laws.