Reddit Subreddit Scraper - Posts by Community

Give it a list of subreddits and get their posts as rows, in the order Reddit shows them: Hot, Newest, Top, Rising or Controversial. Each post row has the title, full text, author, score, upvote ratio, comment count, flair, media links and dates. Turn on comments to add the first comments of every post, add a row describing each subreddit, keep only certain flairs, or save only the posts that are new since your last run. No Reddit account needed.

Post rows have the same columns as our Reddit Search Scraper and comment rows the same columns as our Reddit Comments Scraper, so the datasets combine without any mapping.

What you get

Every row has a recordType: post, comment or subreddit.

Post rows (45 fields). Example values from a run on r/SaaS:

Field	Example	Notes
title	Why do SaaS beginners fail?
body	What is the main cause of begginers that fail...	Markdown. Empty for link and image posts
permalink	https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1xbdbdw/why_do_saas_beginners_fail/	Link to the post
url, domain	the post itself, self.SaaS	Where a link post points
author, authorFlair	Comfortable_Wolf9434, null
subreddit, subredditSubscribers	SaaS, 830637
createdAt, editedAt	2026-10-21T04:12:41.042Z, null	UTC, ISO 8601
score, upvoteRatio, commentCount	24, 1, 34	As shown on Reddit when collected
flair, languageCode	null, en
mediaType	text	image, video, gallery, link or text
imageUrl, thumbnailUrl, videoUrl, galleryImageUrls, mediaWidth, mediaHeight	null	Media links and size. Video links expire after a while
isNsfw, isSpoiler, isLocked, isArchived, isStickied, isSelfPost	false	Post flags
distinguished, crosspostCount, isQuarantined	null, 1, false
feedSubreddit, feedSort	SaaS, hot	The subreddit and the order that found the post (top/week, controversial/month and so on for ranges)
query	null	Always empty here. It holds the search phrase in Reddit Search Scraper rows
id, recordKey	t3_1xbdbdw	Stable, so you can merge runs on it

Comment rows (31 fields, when comments are on): postId, postTitle, postUrl, subreddit, parentId, depth, childCount, body, mediaUrls, author, authorId, createdAt, editedAt, score, permalink, languageCode, authorFlair, distinguished, isPostAuthor, flags and capturedAt. parentId is the post for a top-level comment and the parent comment for a reply; depth is 0 for top-level comments.

Subreddit rows (one per subreddit, when turned on): name, title, description, subscribers, weeklyActiveUsers, weeklyContributions, createdAt, isNsfw, type, url. Measured on r/AskReddit: 59,941,373 subscribers and 12,207,663 weekly active users.

How often post fields are filled depends on the community. Across 2,000 posts from r/startups, r/SaaS, r/Entrepreneur, r/smallbusiness and r/marketing: body 98%, flair 59%, crosspostCount 15%, imageUrl 8%, editedAt 6%, authorFlair 2%, videoUrl 1%. Across 10,000 posts from r/technology, r/worldnews, r/gaming, r/movies and r/todayilearned, where most posts are links: imageUrl 81%, flair 47%, body 16%. Title, author, score, comment count, dates and the post flags were filled on every post.

How to use it

1. Add your subreddits: startups, r/SaaS or a reddit.com/r/... link, one per line, or paste a whole list.
2. Pick an order and how many posts you want. Turn on comments, subreddit rows or "only new posts" if you need them.
3. Click Start, then download the results as CSV, Excel or JSON from the Output tab.

{
  "subreddits": ["startups", "SaaS"],
  "sort": "new",
  "maxPosts": 200
}

Measured run times: 25 posts in 14 seconds, 1,000 posts in about 2.5 minutes, 10,000 posts from 5 subreddits in 31 minutes. With comments on, every post adds a few seconds: 50 posts and 675 comments took 5 minutes.

Input

Field	What it does	Example	Default
subreddits	Subreddits to read, 100 at most. Names, r/name or links, in any letter case; repeats are merged. A pasted list can use lines, commas or spaces.	["startups", "r/SaaS"]	["startups"]
subredditsFileUrl	Link to a plain text or CSV file with one subreddit per line, 1 MB at most. In a CSV the first column is used and a title row is skipped.	https://example.com/subs.csv	none
sort	hot, new, top, rising or controversial.	new	hot
timeFilter	Time range for Top and Controversial: hour, day, week, month, year, all. Every saved post was created inside it.	week	all
maxPosts	Posts to save in the run, 1 to 10,000, shared fairly between subreddits. Comments and subreddit rows come on top.	500	100
maxPostsPerSubreddit	Optional limit per subreddit. 0 means none.	200	0
flair	Keep only posts with one of these flairs, ignoring letter case.	["Question"]	none
postedWithinHours	Keep posts from the last N hours. With Newest, a subreddit stops being read once its posts are older. 0 means off.	24	0
dateFrom, dateTo	Keep posts created inside these dates: 2026-01-01 or a relative age such as 7 days.	7 days	none
includeNsfw	Keep posts marked NSFW. When off, NSFW subreddits are skipped whole.	true	false
includeComments	Add the first comments of each saved post, replies included, in thread order.	true	false
maxCommentsPerPost	Comments per post, 0 to 500.	50	20
commentSort	Which comments come first: top, best or new.	new	top
includeSubredditInfo	Add one row describing each subreddit.	true	false
onlyNewSinceLastRun	Skip posts that an earlier run of the same feed saved. For scheduled runs.	true	false
feedName	Name of the memory used by the option above. Runs with the same name share it. Letters, digits and hyphens.	startups-daily	one per list of subreddits and order

Calling it from code or an AI agent? Common field names work too: subreddit, communities, startUrls or url for the subreddits, maxItems, limit or maxResults for the post limit, sortBy and time for the order, withComments and commentsPerPost for comments. Fields the scraper doesn't know are ignored and listed in the run message.

Output example

A post row (trimmed):

{
  "recordType": "post",
  "id": "t3_1xbdbdw",
  "title": "Why do SaaS beginners fail?",
  "body": "What is the main cause of begginers that fail in starting or not getting good result from SaaS now a days ?...",
  "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1xbdbdw/why_do_saas_beginners_fail/",
  "subreddit": "SaaS",
  "subredditSubscribers": 830637,
  "author": "Comfortable_Wolf9434",
  "score": 24,
  "upvoteRatio": 1,
  "commentCount": 34,
  "createdAt": "2026-10-21T04:12:41.042Z",
  "mediaType": "text",
  "isNsfw": false,
  "feedSubreddit": "SaaS",
  "feedSort": "hot",
  "query": null,
  "capturedAt": "2026-10-21T09:24:13.215Z"
}

A comment row on that post (trimmed):

{
  "recordType": "comment",
  "id": "t1_phz9j9m",
  "postId": "t3_1xbdbdw",
  "postTitle": "Why do SaaS beginners fail?",
  "subreddit": "SaaS",
  "parentId": "t3_1xbdbdw",
  "depth": 0,
  "childCount": 1,
  "body": "it's usually a mix of a few things but the main one i see is people thinking the product alone will carry everything...",
  "author": "Common_University322",
  "score": 9,
  "createdAt": "2026-10-21T04:23:01.385Z",
  "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1xbdbdw/why_do_saas_beginners_fail/phz9j9m/"
}

A subreddit row:

{
  "recordType": "subreddit",
  "id": "t5_2qkq6",
  "name": "SaaS",
  "title": "Software as a Service",
  "description": "Discussions and useful links for SaaS owners, online business owners, and more.",
  "subscribers": 830638,
  "weeklyActiveUsers": 271616,
  "weeklyContributions": 11096,
  "createdAt": "2008-07-31T21:06:38.233Z",
  "isNsfw": false,
  "type": "public",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/"
}

Each run also saves a summary (Output tab, "Run summary") with the posts and comments saved per subreddit, the subreddits skipped and why, how many posts your filters removed, and why the run stopped.

Pricing

You pay per row saved. There is no start fee.

Apify plan	Discount tier	Per 1,000 posts	Per 1,000 comments
Free	No discount	$1.19	$0.99
Starter	Bronze	$1.09	$0.89
Scale	Silver	$0.99	$0.79
Business plan and higher	Gold	$0.89	$0.69

A subreddit row costs the same as one post.

Worked example, no discount: 200 posts with comments on at 20 per post. Posts with fewer than 20 comments give what they have. If the run saves 200 posts and 3,000 comments, it costs 200 x $0.00119 + 3,000 x $0.00099 = $0.24 + $2.97 = $3.21. The same 200 posts without comments cost $0.24.

Not charged:

• Duplicates, including pinned posts that show up on many pages.
• Posts removed by your filters (NSFW, flair, dates).
• Posts that an earlier run of the same feed already saved, when "only new posts" is on.
• Subreddits that are skipped (missing, private, banned, quarantined, or NSFW while NSFW is off).
• Deleted and removed comments.

Set "Maximum cost per run" in Run options for a hard cap. A run that reaches it stops cleanly and says so, and a row is never charged unless it was saved.

FAQ

How deep does a subreddit go? Reddit does not show a whole community in one list. Newest ended at 984 and 993 posts on r/AskReddit, Hot at 987, each Top range at 398 to 453, Rising at 24. When the order you picked runs out before your limit, the run reads the other orders and time ranges of the same subreddit and keeps only posts it has not saved yet; feedSort names the order that found each post. Asked for 10,000 posts from r/AskReddit by Newest, a run saved 4,701 different posts, the oldest from 2009. About 4,700 is what one large subreddit gives. For more, add subreddits: 5 subreddits gave 10,000.

Why did I get fewer posts than I asked for? The subreddit ran out (see above), your filters removed posts, or the community is small. r/technology had 526 posts in one week; asked for 1,000 from its past week, the run returned all 526. The run message says which of these happened.

What happens with private, banned or missing subreddits? They are skipped, named in the run message with the reason, and cost nothing. For example: "Skipped, nothing charged: r/nosuchsub8x7q2z does not exist; r/lounge is private; r/fatpeoplehate is banned; r/TheRedPill is quarantined and not public."

Are NSFW posts included? Not by default. NSFW posts are skipped and not charged (339 of them in one 5,000-post r/AskReddit run), and a subreddit marked NSFW is skipped whole. Turn on "Include NSFW posts" to keep them.

How do I get a daily feed of new posts? Save the input as a task with Sort by Newest, turn on "Only posts not saved by an earlier run", give it a feed name, and add a schedule. Each run saves only posts the feed has not saved before and stops reading a subreddit once it reaches them: a second run of r/startups straight after the first read one page, saved nothing and cost nothing. Results go to Google Sheets, Slack, Make, Zapier or n8n through Apify integrations.

How does this combine with Reddit Search Scraper and Reddit Comments Scraper? Post rows match the Reddit Search Scraper columns, so a keyword search and a subreddit feed can go into one table, merged on id. Comment rows match the Reddit Comments Scraper. This scraper saves the first comments of each post, 500 at most; for every comment of a big thread, paste the post's permalink into the Comments Scraper.

Why did Rising return so few posts? Rising lists only the posts gaining votes right now: 24 on r/AskReddit when we measured. Pick Hot or Newest for volume.

Limits

• 100 subreddits and 10,000 posts per run. Comments and subreddit rows come on top of the post limit.
• One subreddit gives about 4,700 different posts (4,701 on r/AskReddit asked for 10,000). Newest and Hot end near 1,000 posts each, each Top range near 450, Rising near 25.
• 500 comments per post at most, starting from the top of the thread. For complete threads, use the Reddit Comments Scraper.
• "Only new posts" remembers the newest 50,000 post IDs per feed name.
• Several runs started at the same time in one account each take longer: three at once ran at about a third of the speed of one.
• Public content only. Scores and comment counts are a snapshot from the moment of collection. Media links can expire.

Questions or a missing field? Open an issue in the Issues tab with your run ID.