Reddit Scraper - Subreddit Posts & Comments

Scrapes public Reddit posts and comments from any subreddit or post URL. Returns titles, authors (pseudonymized), dates, links and post or comment text. No login is required. If you supply your own Reddit app credentials, the Actor uses the official Reddit API and also returns scores, comment counts, flair and comment nesting.

What it does

• Subreddit mode: fetches posts from a subreddit sorted by hot, new, top or rising, and paginates automatically to reach the requested number of items.
• Post comments mode: when given a post URL (containing /comments/), returns the post's comments (up to 500).
• Data sources:
  • Without credentials, the Actor reads Reddit's public Atom feeds (/r/<subreddit>/<sort>/.rss, /comments/<id>/.rss). Reddit's anonymous .json endpoints now refuse requests from cloud and proxy IPs, so they are not used.
  • With clientId and clientSecret, it requests an application-only OAuth token and reads oauth.reddit.com. If the credentials are rejected, it falls back to the public feeds.
• Authors are pseudonymized (first 3 characters + ***).

Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
subreddit	string	Yes	-	Subreddit name (python), prefixed (r/python, /r/python), or full URL. Can also be a post URL to scrape comments.
maxItems	integer	No	20	Maximum number of posts or comments to return (1-10000).
sort	enum	No	hot	Sort order: hot, new, top, rising.
topPeriod	enum	No	all	Time filter when sort is top: hour, day, week, month, year, all.
clientId	string (secret)	No	-	Client ID of your own Reddit app (create one at https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps). Enables the official API.
clientSecret	string (secret)	No	-	Secret of the same Reddit app. Never logged or written to the dataset.

Output

Each dataset item is a flat JSON object. Posts and comments have different fields. dataSource tells you which source produced the item (rss or api).

Post example (public feed):

{
    "id": "1xb7op7",
    "title": "Anthropic logged net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026",
    "author": "Car***",
    "score": null,
    "numComments": null,
    "createdUtc": "2026-10-20T23:36:46+00:00",
    "text": null,
    "subreddit": "technology",
    "url": "https://www.reuters.com/business/anthropic-recorded-net-loss-over-80-billion-first-half-this-year-wsj-reports-2026-10-20/",
    "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1xb7op7/anthropic_logged_net_loss_of_over_80_billion_in/",
    "flair": null,
    "awards": null,
    "mediaUrl": null,
    "thumbnail": null,
    "isNsfw": null,
    "type": "post",
    "dataSource": "rss",
    "query": "technology",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-21T10:01:55+00:00"
}

With the official API (dataSource: "api"), score, numComments, flair, awards, mediaUrl and isNsfw are filled.

Comment example (public feed):

{
    "id": "phyihgq",
    "body": "I mean this is actually insane.",
    "author": "wem***",
    "score": null,
    "createdUtc": "2026-10-20T23:43:08+00:00",
    "depth": null,
    "parentId": null,
    "postId": "t3_1xb7op7",
    "isOp": false,
    "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1xb7op7/anthropic_logged_net_loss_of_over_80_billion_in/phyihgq/",
    "type": "comment",
    "dataSource": "rss",
    "subreddit": "technology",
    "query": "technology",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-21T10:05:12+00:00"
}

Pricing

Pay-per-event, no start fee: $2.80 per 1,000 posts or comments on the Apify Free plan, with lower prices on paid plans. Each post or comment pushed to the dataset is one event.

Event	Free	Starter	Scale	Business	Enterprise
Post or comment (RESULT)	$2.80	$2.40	$2.10	$1.70	$1.70

Prices in USD per 1,000 events.

Cost examples (Free plan)

Scenario	Items	Cost
Quick check	25	$0.07
Daily subreddit monitoring	100	$0.28
Thread with comments	500	$1.40
Research batch	5,000	$14.00

Limitations

• Only public subreddit content is accessible. Private, banned and quarantined subreddits are not supported (the run fails with a "not found" message).
• Public feeds do not include score, comment count, flair, awards, video URL, NSFW flag or comment nesting (depth, parentId); these fields are null unless you provide Reddit app credentials.
• For comments read from the public feed, createdUtc is the time of the last edit when a comment was edited.
• Comment mode returns at most 500 comments per post; collapsed "load more" threads are not expanded.
• Deep pagination (after cursor) is capped by Reddit at roughly 1,000 posts per listing.
• NSFW content is included when present in the subreddit.
• Reddit may change or restrict its public feeds or API without notice.

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