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Reddit Scraper
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.
3.9 (2)
Pricing
$45.00/month + usage
115
Total users
6.9K
Monthly users
441
Runs succeeded
>99%
Issues response
2.2 days
Last modified
an hour ago
Fails on communities
Closed
jonbarrow opened this issue
a month ago
Seems to fail when scraping a community. Using default settings. The Lite version does not have this issue. Log:
2025-05-05T03:37:46.113Z ACTOR: Pulling Docker image of build S4UiFDwYiCKgmZtw2 from registry.2025-05-05T03:37:46.201Z ACTOR: Creating Docker container.2025-05-05T03:37:46.452Z ACTOR: Starting Docker container.2025-05-05T03:37:48.482Z INFO System info {"apifyVersion":"3.4.0","apifyClientVersion":"2.12.3","crawleeVersion":"3.13.2","osType":"Linux","nodeVersion":"v20.19.1"}2025-05-05T03:37:48.667Z INFO Found startUrl. Search params will be ignored.2025-05-05T03:37:49.366Z INFO Starting the crawl.2025-05-05T03:37:49.517Z INFO PuppeteerCrawler: Starting the crawler.2025-05-05T03:37:52.830Z INFO Processing https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/?include_over_18=on ...2025-05-05T03:37:56.879Z WARN PuppeteerCrawler: Reclaiming failed request back to the list or queue. SyntaxError: Unexpected token '<', "<body clas"... is not valid JSON2025-05-05T03:37:56.881Z at JSON.parse (<anonymous>)2025-05-05T03:37:56.883Z at getURLDataAsJSON (file:///home/myuser/src/tools.js:577:15)2025-05-05T03:37:56.885Z at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)2025-05-05T03:37:56.887Z at async Promise.all (index 1)2025-05-05T03:37:56.898Z at async communityJSONParser (file:///home/myuser/src/parsers/communityJSONParser.js:20:35)2025-05-05T03:37:56.903Z at async handleCommunityInfo (file:///home/myuser/src/routes.js:28:21)2025-05-05T03:37:56.905Z at async wrap (/home/myuser/node_modules/@apify/timeout/cjs/index.cjs:54:21) {"id":"7htqwWEFkKdWZ4s","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/.json?include_over_18=on","retryCount":1}2025-05-05T03:37:58.726Z INFO Processing https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/?include_over_18=on ...2025-05-05T03:38:04.491Z WARN PuppeteerCrawler: Reclaiming failed request back to the list or queue. SyntaxError: Unexpected token '<', "<body clas"... is not valid JSON2025-05-05T03:38:04.498Z at JSON.parse (<anonymous>)2025-05-05T03:38:04.500Z at getURLDataAsJSON (file:///home/myuser/src/tools.js:577:15)2025-05-05T03:38:04.503Z at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)2025-05-05T03:38:04.505Z at async Promise.all (index 0)2025-05-05T03:38:04.506Z at async communityJSONParser (file:///home/myuser/src/parsers/communityJSONParser.js:20:35)2025-05-05T03:38:04.508Z at async handleCommunityInfo (file:///home/myuser/src/routes.js:28:21)2025-05-05T03:38:04.511Z at async wrap (/home/myuser/node_modules/@apify/timeout/cjs/index.cjs:54:21) {"id":"7htqwWEFkKdWZ4s","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/.json?include_over_18=on","retryCount":2}2025-05-05T03:38:05.845Z INFO Processing https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/?include_over_18=on ...2025-05-05T03:38:33.189Z ACTOR: The Actor run was aborted by the user.

a month ago
Is the issue still happening for you? I was able to scrape using the same input as your run.