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Reddit Scraper Lite

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Reddit Scraper Lite

Reddit Scraper Lite

trudax/reddit-scraper-lite
Try for free

Pay $4.00 for 1,000 results

Pay Per Result, unlimited Reddit web scraper to crawl posts, comments, communities, and users without login. Limit web scraping by number of posts or items and extract all data in a dataset in multiple formats.

You can access the Reddit Scraper Lite programmatically from your own JavaScript applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11    "startUrls": [
12        {
13            "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/pasta/comments/vwi6jx/pasta_peperoni_and_ricotta_cheese_how_to_make/"
14        }
15    ],
16    "sort": "new",
17    "maxItems": 10,
18    "maxPostCount": 10,
19    "maxComments": 10,
20    "maxCommunitiesCount": 2,
21    "maxUserCount": 2,
22    "scrollTimeout": 40,
23    "proxy": {
24        "useApifyProxy": true,
25        "apifyProxyGroups": [
26            "RESIDENTIAL"
27        ]
28    }
29};
30
31// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
32const run = await client.actor("trudax/reddit-scraper-lite").call(input);
33
34// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
35console.log('Results from dataset');
36console.log(`πŸ’Ύ Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
37const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
38items.forEach((item) => {
39    console.dir(item);
40});
41
42// πŸ“š Want to learn more πŸ“–? Go to β†’ https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

Reddit Scraper API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Reddit Scraper Lite API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

npm install apify-client

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Maintained by Community
Actor metrics
  • 266 monthly users
  • 52 stars
  • 91.3% runs succeeded
  • 21 hours response time
  • Created in Jun 2020
  • Modified 5 days ago