Reddit Scraper - Posts, Comments, Subreddits, Users & Search

Reddit Scraper collects public Reddit posts and comments from subreddits, user profiles, post threads and keyword search, without a Reddit account or API key. Every post and every comment becomes one clean dataset item that you can export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull through the Apify API. It costs $0.50 per 1,000 posts and $0.25 per 1,000 comments, and you pay only for results you get.

What does Reddit Scraper do?

• 📰 Subreddit scraper: the Hot, New, Top (of the day, week, month, year or all time) or Rising posts of any public subreddit. Need more than one listing holds? Set a high limit (or 0 for no limit) and the scraper also reads the subreddit's other listings, each post once.
• 💬 Reddit comment scraper: every comment of a post, including the replies Reddit folds behind "more replies", sorted Best, Top, New, Controversial, Old or Q&A. Each comment comes with its depth and the comment it replies to, so you can rebuild the whole thread.
• 🔎 Reddit search scraper: Reddit's post search for any number of keywords, by relevance, new, top or most comments, over any time range. Each result comes with its title, votes, comment count, author, subreddit and date; turn on Full post text for search results to also get the post's full text, link, flair, upvote ratio and media. One search on Reddit ends near 250 posts; ask for more and the scraper reads the same keyword in other orders and narrower time ranges, inside your time range, without duplicates.
• 👤 Reddit user scraper: a user's posts and comments, newest first, or only their posts, or only their comments.
• 🔗 Any mix in one run: paste subreddit, profile, post and search URLs side by side, add keywords, and get one dataset back. An item found by two inputs is stored, and charged, once.
• 🧾 Stable output: every item has the same fields, with ISO dates, full links, media links, and null where a value does not apply.

What data can you extract from Reddit?

One dataset item per post or comment. dataType tells them apart. A field that does not apply to an item's type is null (a title on a comment, a depth on a post), and imageUrls is then an empty list.

Field	Type	Description
dataType	string	"post" or "comment".
id	string	Reddit's full ID of the item: t3_… for a post, t1_… for a comment.
url	string	Link to the post or comment.
postId	string	Full ID (t3_…) of the post the item belongs to. For a post, the same as id.
parentId	string or null	Comments: what the comment replies to, t3_… for the post itself or t1_… for another comment.
title	string or null	Posts: the title.
body	string or null	Post text or comment text. Empty for link posts. null for a search result unless "Full post text for search results" is on.
bodyHtml	string or null	The same text as Reddit renders it, in HTML.
author	string	Username without u/; "[deleted]" when the account was deleted.
authorId	string or null	The author's account ID (t2_…).
authorFlair	string or null	The author's flair text in the subreddit, when Reddit shows it.
subreddit	string	Subreddit name without r/. Posts on a user's profile show u_<username>.
subredditId	string or null	The subreddit's ID (t5_…).
createdAt	string or null	When it was posted, ISO 8601 (UTC).
editedAt	string or null	When it was last edited, ISO 8601 (UTC), when Reddit shows it.
score	number or null	Net votes as Reddit shows them; null when Reddit hides the score.
upvoteRatio	number or null	Posts: share of votes that are upvotes, from 0 to 1.
numComments	number or null	Posts: number of comments Reddit reports (it counts removed ones too).
flair	string or null	Posts: the post flair text.
isOver18	boolean or null	Posts: true when marked NSFW (18+).
linkUrl	string or null	Posts: where a link post points; null for text posts.
domain	string or null	Posts: the domain of linkUrl, for example i.redd.it or youtube.com.
thumbnailUrl	string or null	Posts: the thumbnail image.
imageUrls	list of strings	Posts: full-size images of an image or gallery post, in gallery order. Empty otherwise.
videoUrl	string or null	Posts: playable link to a video hosted on Reddit.
removedByCategory	string or null	Posts: why the post was removed, for example "moderator" or "deleted".
postTitle	string or null	Comments: title of the post the comment is on, when known.
postUrl	string or null	Comments: link to the post the comment is on, when known.
depth	number or null	Comments collected from a post: how deeply the comment is nested (0 = a direct reply to the post).
isSubmitter	boolean or null	Comments: true when the commenter is the post's author.
sourceType	string	The kind of input that found the item: "subreddit", "user", "post" or "search".
sourceInput	string	The start URL or search keyword that found the item.
scrapedAt	string	When the item was collected, ISO 8601 (UTC).

How to scrape Reddit

1. Open Reddit Scraper on Apify and click Try for free.
2. Add what to scrape. Start URLs take any mix of:
   • subreddits: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/ or r/AskReddit, or a URL with a sort such as https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/top/?t=week;
   • user profiles: https://www.reddit.com/user/<username>/ or u/<username> (end in /submitted/ for posts only, /comments/ for comments only);
   • posts: a post's link, a redd.it short link, a gallery link, or a link to one of its comments;
   • share links from the Reddit app (https://www.reddit.com/r/<subreddit>/s/<id>, /u/<username>/s/<id>) and v.redd.it video links, also on old., np., m. and i.reddit.com;
   • search pages: https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=coffee&sort=new, or a search inside one subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Coffee/search/?q=grinder. Search keywords each run their own search.
3. Set Max items per source (posts per subreddit or keyword; 0 = no limit).
4. To get comments, turn on Include comments and set Max comments per post (0 = every comment) and Sort comments by.
5. Click Start. Results appear in the Output tab as they are scraped. Download them as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML, or read them through the API.

Share links from the Reddit app (/s/…) work as they are: the scraper follows each one to the post, comment, subreddit or profile it opens, without logging in and without charging for it. A share link Reddit no longer knows (it then opens the subreddit's front page instead) is reported as expired, not scraped as that subreddit.

How much does it cost to scrape Reddit?

Result	Price per 1,000	Silver plan (−10%)	Gold plan (−20%)
Post	$0.50	$0.45	$0.40
Comment	$0.25	$0.225	$0.20
Search result with full text (option on)	$1.45	$1.305	$1.16

Platform usage and proxies are included. You pay only for results that are stored: a post found by two of your inputs is stored, and charged, once, and a search result left out by the keyword filter costs nothing. A search result is a post ($0.50 per 1,000) unless Full post text for search results is on: then each result whose post page is read for its full text is a "Search result with full text" instead.

• 10,000 posts from a list of subreddits: $5.00.
• 2,000 search results with 20 comments each (2,000 posts + 40,000 comments): $1.00 + $10.00 = $11.00.
• 1,000 search results with full text: $1.45.

Apify's free plan includes $5 of platform credit every month, enough for about 10,000 posts. To cap a run, set a maximum total charge in the run options: the scraper stops cleanly when it is reached and never stores a result your limit cannot pay for. Max items in total caps a run by result count the same way.

Input example

The week's top 500 posts of two subreddits, each with its 100 best comments:

{
  "startUrls": ["https://www.reddit.com/r/Coffee/", "r/espresso"],
  "subredditSort": "top",
  "subredditTime": "week",
  "maxItemsPerSource": 500,
  "includeComments": true,
  "maxCommentsPerPost": 100,
  "commentSort": "best"
}

Every comment of one post, newest first:

{
  "startUrls": ["https://www.reddit.com/r/StandingDesks/comments/1q9v2ks/best_standing_desks_in_2026_so_far/"],
  "includeComments": true,
  "maxCommentsPerPost": 0,
  "commentSort": "new"
}

Keyword search: this month's posts for two keywords, 1,000 each, with full text:

{
  "searches": ["standing desk", "ergonomic chair"],
  "searchSort": "relevance",
  "searchTime": "month",
  "maxItemsPerSource": 1000,
  "searchIncludePostDetails": true
}

A user's latest 300 posts and comments:

{
  "startUrls": ["u/<username>"],
  "maxItemsPerSource": 300
}

Output example

A search result with its full text, then one of its comments (trimmed):

[
  {
    "dataType": "post",
    "id": "t3_1q9v2ks",
    "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/StandingDesks/comments/1q9v2ks/best_standing_desks_in_2026_so_far/",
    "postId": "t3_1q9v2ks",
    "parentId": null,
    "title": "Best standing desks in 2026 so far?",
    "body": "Hey guys, my friend asked me for standing desk recommendations and I realized I probably know way too much about them lol. ...",
    "author": "<username>",
    "authorId": "t2_<user-id>",
    "subreddit": "StandingDesks",
    "subredditId": "t5_2tf0s",
    "createdAt": "2026-01-11T09:24:51.000Z",
    "score": 10,
    "upvoteRatio": 0.86,
    "numComments": 45,
    "flair": null,
    "isOver18": false,
    "linkUrl": null,
    "imageUrls": [],
    "depth": null,
    "sourceType": "search",
    "sourceInput": "standing desk",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-11-08T11:17:22.418Z"
  },
  {
    "dataType": "comment",
    "id": "t1_nz4075k",
    "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/StandingDesks/comments/1q9v2ks/comment/nz4075k/",
    "postId": "t3_1q9v2ks",
    "parentId": "t1_nz2ggbi",
    "title": null,
    "body": "Good to hear another vote for the Uplift v3. How’s the stability at full standing height with dual monitors?",
    "author": "<username>",
    "authorId": "t2_<user-id>",
    "subreddit": "StandingDesks",
    "createdAt": "2026-01-12T04:59:23.000Z",
    "score": 1,
    "postTitle": "Best standing desks in 2026 so far?",
    "postUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/r/StandingDesks/comments/1q9v2ks/best_standing_desks_in_2026_so_far/",
    "depth": 1,
    "isSubmitter": true,
    "sourceType": "search",
    "sourceInput": "standing desk",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-11-08T11:17:22.418Z"
  }
]

The Output tab shows three table views: Overview, Posts overview and Comments overview.

Use cases

• Brand and product monitoring: follow what people say about a product, a competitor or a topic, every day on a schedule.
• Market and product research: collect questions, complaints, feature requests and recommendations in a niche.
• Trend tracking: watch new posts in the communities you care about.
• Text and sentiment analysis: build datasets of real conversations, with whole comment threads, for NLP, classification or LLM work.
• Community research: see what a subreddit discusses, which posts take off and how threads unfold.
• Lead and audience research: find the people who ask for the problem you solve, and the subreddits where they gather.
• Academic research: gather public discussion data on a topic over a time range.

Use Reddit Scraper via API, Python, JavaScript and integrations

Run it from your own code with the Apify API clients.

JavaScript / Node.js:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('socialscrapers/reddit-scraper').call({
  searches: ['standing desk'],
  maxItemsPerSource: 500,
  includeComments: true,
  maxCommentsPerPost: 50,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items.length);

Python:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("socialscrapers/reddit-scraper").call(
    run_input={"startUrls": ["https://www.reddit.com/r/Coffee/"], "maxItemsPerSource": 1000}
)
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["dataType"], item["title"] or item["body"][:80])

You can also:

• Schedule runs (every hour, every day) to collect new posts and comments on a topic.
• Send results to Google Sheets, Slack, Airtable and other apps through Make, Zapier or n8n, or call a webhook when a run finishes.
• Let an AI agent run it through the Apify MCP server.
• Read results as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, HTML or RSS from the dataset API.

Reddit API vs this scraper

	Official Reddit API	Reddit Scraper
Account and app	Reddit account, registered app and OAuth credentials	None
Rate limit	100 requests per minute on the free tier	Handled for you
Comments	You page through "load more" yourself	Every comment, already flattened in reading order
Search depth	About 250 results per query	Thousands per keyword (other orders and time ranges)
Output	Raw JSON	Clean items, CSV, Excel, JSON, API
Commercial use	Needs Reddit's approval	You pay per result

Limits

• Public content only, no login. Private, quarantined and banned subreddits, and anything that needs a Reddit account, are out of reach; the run log names each one.
• Hidden profiles. Reddit lets users hide their posts and comments from their profile; such a profile shows nothing to logged-out visitors, and the run log says so.
• Removed and deleted comments are not listed. Reddit's comment count includes them, so a post may report a few more comments than you get.
• Listings end near 1,000 posts each. Reddit stops every subreddit listing and profile listing around 1,000 entries; with a higher limit the scraper reads the other listings to reach more.
• Some fields depend on where an item comes from. editedAt and authorFlair are filled when Reddit serves them (Hot listings and profiles), and null otherwise. Missing values are always null, never guessed.
• Residential proxy. Reddit refuses most datacenter IPs, so keep the default residential proxy. If you pick Apify Proxy without the RESIDENTIAL group, the first session Reddit refuses moves the run to RESIDENTIAL, in the same country; custom proxy URLs are used exactly as given.
• A run with 0 results still succeeds when your input was fine. When a subreddit, profile, post or share link has nothing public (it does not exist, is private, banned, hidden or deleted, or a search matches nothing), the run ends as Succeeded with a status message naming each input and why, and nothing is charged. A run fails only when no start URL can be used at all, or when Reddit refuses every one of 3 or more inputs (the scraper is then blocked, and worth retrying later).

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Reddit? Reddit Scraper collects only public data that anyone can see without logging in. Scraping public data is lawful in many countries, but Reddit's terms of service and data-protection laws such as the GDPR may apply to how you collect and use it, especially personal data. You are responsible for your use; ask a lawyer if unsure.

Do I need a Reddit account or API key? No. The scraper reads only what Reddit shows to logged-out visitors.

How many results can I get? As many as Reddit has. Set Max items per source to 0 for no limit, or Max comments per post to 0 for every comment of a post. One search on Reddit ends near 250 posts, so for more the scraper reads the keyword in other orders and narrower time ranges; one listing ends near 1,000 posts, so for more it reads the subreddit's other listings.

Why did I get fewer results than I asked for? The subreddit, profile or keyword has fewer posts, the profile's owner hides their activity, the keyword filter left out results that do not mention every word (turn off Only posts that mention every keyword word to keep them all), or the run reached its maximum charge. The run log says which, for each input.

Can I paste share links from the Reddit app? Yes. Links like https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/AbCdEf1234 are followed to the post, comment, subreddit or profile they open, then scraped like the full URL. Resolving a link is never charged.

My run finished with 0 results. What happened? Your input was valid but had nothing public to collect: the status message and the run log name each input and the reason (not found, private, hidden profile, expired share link, no matching posts). Nothing was charged.

How do I collect only new posts? Use the New sort on a subreddit or search, and Search time range such as the past 24 hours, on a schedule.

How do I get the comments of search results or subreddit posts? Turn on Include comments. Each post is followed by its comments, up to Max comments per post.

Why do my search results have no text? Reddit's search results show only a post's title, votes, comment count, author, subreddit and date. Turn on Full post text for search results and the scraper reads each result's post page for its full text, link, flair, upvote ratio and media ($1.45 per 1,000 such results). It is off by default because those runs are slower.

How do I tell which input found an item? sourceType and sourceInput on every item name the start URL or keyword that found it.

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