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🤖 Reddit Posts & Search Scraper [From $0.50💰] — Fast, Cheap & No API Key Required

The fastest, most reliable, and cost-effective Reddit Posts & Search Scraper on Apify.
Extract keyword searches, subreddit feeds, direct post discussions, and comments without official Reddit API keys, developer approvals, or login credentials.

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⚡ Highlights & Key Advantages

• 🔍 Multi-Page Keyword Search — Search across all of Reddit or restrict to any subreddit with dynamic cursor pagination up to thousands of results.
• 📢 Complete Subreddit Feeds — Scrape hot, new, top (filtered by hour, day, week, month, year, or all-time), and rising for any community (e.g. r/technology, r/wallstreetbets).
• 📝 Direct Post & Discussion Threads — Paste direct Reddit post links to extract the full post text, metadata, and top discussion comments.
• 🖼️ 100% Permanent HD Media Links — Expiring preview tokens automatically rewritten into permanent direct CDN links (i.redd.it and v.redd.it).
• 🛡️ Zero-Browser Bot Challenge Resolution — Automatically resolves Reddit's client-side JavaScript challenges and client redirects in pure HTTP.
• ⚡ Scrapes in Seconds — Sub-second response times with zero browser overhead (safe inside the 256MB RAM tier with <100MB active memory).
• 🤖 AI-Ready Dual Output — Exports as flat row-per-item records (ideal for LLM fine-tuning, Pandas, and CSV) or legacy nested JSON envelopes.
• 💰 Cheapest on Apify — Starting from $0.50 / 1,000 posts with zero compute overhead and a fair billing guarantee.

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🏆 Why Choose UnitBytes Reddit Scraper?

Feature / Benefit	UnitBytes Reddit Scraper	Official Reddit API	Competitor Scrapers
API Keys / Approvals	❌ Not needed ($0.00)	🛑 Strict Approval / Deprecating	❌ Not needed
Cost per 1,000 Posts	💰 $0.50 – $1.00	💵 $0.24 + Enterprise Base	💸 $1.50 – $3.50
Media Links	✅ Permanent HD CDN Links	⚠️ Expiring Signed URLs	❌ Often Broken
Speed (50 Posts)	⚡ ~2–3 seconds	~5 seconds	🐢 25–60 seconds (Heavy Browsers)
Memory Footprint	✅ <100MB (256MB Tier)	N/A	⚠️ 1GB – 4GB (OOM Risks)
Challenge Bypass	✅ Auto Pure-HTTP POW Solver	N/A	⚠️ Fails or stalls
Anonymous & Safe	✅ 100% Anonymous	❌ Account Required	⚠️ Inconsistent

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💎 4-Tier Monetization & Apify Store Discounts

We utilize Apify's Pay-Per-Event (PPE) model with active Store Discounts. Users on higher subscription tiers automatically unlock substantial discounts per extracted item:

Plan Tier	Apify Discount Tier	Unit Price per Item	Price / 1,000 Posts	Apify Discount	Included Monthly Capacity
🟢 Free Plan	FREE	$0.0010	$1.00	Baseline	Up to 5,000 results/mo FREE ($5 credit)
🥉 Starter Plan	BRONZE	$0.0008	$0.80	20% OFF	Up to 23,750 results/mo ($19 credit)
🥈 Scale Plan	SILVER	$0.0006	$0.60	40% OFF	Up to 331,600 results/mo ($199 credit)
🥇 Business Plan	GOLD / PLATINUM	$0.0005	$0.50	50% OFF	Up to 1,998,000 results/mo ($999 credit)

Fair Billing Guarantee: Zero charges on empty search results, private subreddits, or invalid communities. Startup fee is capped at the platform minimum ($0.0001).

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🚀 How to Get Started in 3 Easy Steps

1. Choose Your Target:
   • Type a search query (e.g. artificial intelligence or SaaS marketing).
   • OR paste any Reddit URL (https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/hot/ or a post link).
   • OR provide shorthand notation (r/wallstreetbets).
2. Configure Filters & Depth:
   • Select sorting: Hot, New, Top, or Rising.
   • Set time frame for top posts: hour, day, week, month, year, all.
   • Choose maximum items and toggle comments extraction.
3. Click "Start":
   • Download clean data in Excel, CSV, or JSON, or integrate with ChatGPT, Claude, LangChain, or Zapier!

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📥 Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
startUrls	Array	[]	List of Reddit URLs (Subreddit feeds, direct post discussions, or shorthand r/name).
searchQuery	String	""	Search keyword across Reddit or within a specific subreddit.
subreddit	String	""	Optional subreddit name to filter search or scrape feed (e.g. technology).
sort	Select	"hot"	Sort feed by hot, new, top, rising, or relevance.
timeFilter	Select	"all"	Time frame for top posts: all, year, month, week, day, hour.
maxItems	Integer	50	Maximum number of posts to scrape.
scrapeComments	Boolean	true	Whether to extract comment threads for scraped posts.
maxCommentsPerPost	Integer	20	Max comments to extract per post.
outputMode	Select	"flat"	flat (row per item for AI/Pandas) or legacy (nested envelope).

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📤 Sample Output (Flat Mode)

[
  {
    "itemType": "post",
    "id": "t3_1x02q4h",
    "title": "Man discovers his parents’ coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days",
    "subreddit": "technology",
    "author": "Fleshy_Tendrils",
    "score": 831,
    "upvoteRatio": 0.94,
    "numComments": 147,
    "postType": "link",
    "url": "https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/...",
    "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1x02q4h/man_discovers_his_parents_coffee_machine_used_1tb/",
    "createdAt": "2026-10-07T17:15:39.000000+0000",
    "mediaUrls": [
      "https://i.redd.it/e2q780u08mtd1.jpeg"
    ],
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-07T20:10:46.000Z"
  }
]

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💻 API & Python Integration

Run via Apify Python Client

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")

run_input = {
    "subreddit": "technology",
    "sort": "hot",
    "maxItems": 50,
    "outputMode": "flat"
}

# Run the actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("unitbytes/reddit-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch results from dataset
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(f"[{item.get('score')} pts] {item.get('title')}")

Run via cURL

curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/unitbytes~reddit-scraper/runs?token=<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"subreddit": "technology", "maxItems": 25}'

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Do I need a Reddit API account or credentials?

No. This actor uses reverse-engineered HTTP protocols with modern TLS impersonation. You do not need to register on Reddit Developer Portal or register OAuth apps.

Are media links permanent?

Yes! Reddit's preview image links expire quickly due to signed CDN tokens. Our extractor automatically normalizes and rewrites all preview URLs into permanent, non-expiring https://i.redd.it/... links.

How many comments are extracted per post?

The actor extracts the top discussion comment thread from the post page up to your configured maxCommentsPerPost (default: 20), capturing comment authors, scores, creation timestamps, and nested reply depth.

What happens if a subreddit has zero posts or doesn't exist?

The actor detects zero-result states cleanly, sets a friendly status message in your console, pushes zero error records, and exits with code 0. You will never be charged for zero-result executions.

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💬 Support & Custom Integrations

Need high-volume bespoke feeds, customized NLP pipelines, or additional platform scrapers? Reach out via the Apify Console or check our developer catalog!