Reddit User Profile Scraper

Fetch a Reddit user's public profile by username. One row, with everything Reddit publishes about the account.

Input

Field	Use it for
username	Username without u/, or a full profile URL. Required.
addonUserDetails	Adds user_detail -- trophy case and active subreddits. Off by default.

{
  "username": "https://www.reddit.com/user/spez/",
  "addonUserDetails": true
}

Output

One row per run.

Field	Contents
username	The username you asked for
created_at	Account creation date
user_detail	Trophies and active subreddits. Only with addonUserDetails

The rest of Reddit's profile response is kept on the row alongside these, so karma, avatar, description and account flags are all there under Reddit's own names.

{
  "username": "spez",
  "created_at": "2005-06-06T00:00:00.000Z"
}

What the detail add-on adds

Two lookups, merged into user_detail:

Key	What it holds
trophies	The account's trophy case
active_subreddits	Communities the account is currently active in

active_subreddits is the more useful of the two for research -- it is the closest thing Reddit publishes to "where does this person spend their time", without having to scrape their whole comment history.

Questions

The add-on ran but user_detail is missing. Both lookups returned nothing, so nothing was attached and nothing was charged. A suspended or deleted account is the usual cause.

Why is created_at the only field in the table when Reddit shows so much more? Those two are the fields promised under stable names. Everything else Reddit returns is passed through untouched under Reddit's own key names rather than being renamed or dropped -- so you get more than the table lists, just not under names this Actor guarantees will not change.

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

Is active_subreddits the same as everything they have posted in? No. It is what Reddit currently reports as active, which is a shorter and more recent list. For the full picture, run the User Posts and User Comments Actors and count the subreddit column.

Related Actors

Actor	Purpose
Reddit User Posts Scraper	Everything this account has submitted
Reddit User Comments Scraper	Everything this account has commented
Reddit Search Scraper	Find accounts by keyword