Reddit Subreddit Info Scraper

Look up a subreddit's public profile by name. One row: its ID, title, creation date and the community fields Reddit publishes.

Input

Field	Use it for
subreddit_name	Subreddit name without r/, or a full subreddit URL. Required.
addonSubredditDetails	Adds subreddit_detail -- style, settings and highlights. Off by default.

{
  "subreddit_name": "dataisbeautiful",
  "addonSubredditDetails": true
}

Output

One row per run.

Field	Contents
subreddit_id	Reddit's subreddit ID
subreddit	The name you asked for
title	The subreddit's display title
created_at	When the subreddit was created
subreddit_detail	Style, settings and highlights. Only with addonSubredditDetails

Everything else Reddit returns for the subreddit is kept on the row alongside those fields, so nothing published is discarded.

{
  "subreddit_id": "t5_2tk95",
  "subreddit": "dataisbeautiful",
  "title": "Data Is Beautiful",
  "created_at": "2012-06-01T18:02:11.000Z"
}

What the detail add-on actually fetches

Three separate lookups, run together and merged into subreddit_detail:

Key	What it holds
style	Colours, banner and icon configuration
settings	The community's public configuration
highlights	Pinned and featured content

style is looked up by subreddit name; settings and highlights are looked up by subreddit ID. That distinction matters in one case: if Reddit does not return an ID for the subreddit, only style can be fetched and the other two come back empty. The row still saves.

Questions

The add-on ran but subreddit_detail is missing. Why? All three lookups came back empty, so nothing was attached and nothing was charged. A private, quarantined or banned subreddit is the usual cause. If only some of the three failed, you get the ones that worked.

Does this give me subscriber counts? Whatever Reddit publishes for that subreddit is on the row -- the Actor keeps the full response rather than narrowing it to a fixed column list. What Reddit reports varies by community and by how it is configured, so check the row rather than assuming a field is there.

Can I look up several subreddits at once? No, one per run.

Do I need this before scraping a subreddit's posts? No. The Subreddit Posts Scraper takes a name or URL directly. Use this one when you want the community's own metadata, not its content.

Related Actors

Actor	Purpose
Reddit Subreddit Posts Scraper	What the community is actually posting
Reddit Search Scraper	Find subreddits by keyword when you do not have a name