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📈 Reddit Subreddit & Feeds Scraper [From $0.50💰] — Community Intelligence & Trend Extraction

The easiest way to extract trending posts and community feeds from any subreddit.
Monitor competitor communities, track viral discussions, spot emerging trends, and export complete post discussions without API keys, accounts, or developer approvals.

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⚡ 30-Second Quick Start (No Code Required)

Extract any subreddit feed in 3 easy steps:

1. Enter Subreddit Name: Type the community name in subreddit (e.g. technology, wallstreetbets, SaaS) or paste the full URL in startUrls.
2. Choose Feed Sort: Select hot (trending now), new (real-time alerts), top (all-time best), or rising (early breakout trends).
3. Click "Start" & Export: Hit Start. Your dataset is ready in 1–2 seconds. Download your spreadsheet as Excel, CSV, or JSON with 1 click.

💡 Multi-Community Surveillance: Want to monitor 10 communities at once? Just paste multiple URLs into startUrls. The scraper extracts them all automatically into one organized dataset.

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💡 How Subreddit Monitoring Unlocks Business Value

• 📢 Competitor Community Surveillance — Track discussions, product feedback, and user complaints inside subreddits dedicated to your rivals or industry (e.g. r/webflow, r/shopify, r/notion).
• 📊 Financial & Retail Sentiment — Capture ticker mentions, upvote surges, and community sentiment shifts in real time from r/wallstreetbets, r/stocks, and r/cryptocurrency.
• 🔥 Viral Content & Trend Sourcing — Spot viral stories, breakthrough news, and top-voted discussions hours before they reach Twitter, LinkedIn, or mainstream media.
• 🛠️ Customer Pain Point Discovery — Identify common bugs, missing features, and workarounds that users post about in niche communities to fuel your product roadmap.

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⚡ 4 Flexible Feed Perspectives

Feed Sort	What It Delivers	Primary Business Use Case
🔥 Hot	What community members are actively talking about right now	Day-to-day community monitoring & emerging discussions
🆕 New	Newest posts in chronological order	Real-time brand alerts & instant crisis detection
🏆 Top	Proven, highest-voted posts filtered by hour, day, week, month, year, or all-time	Researching the best-performing content of all time
📈 Rising	Posts gaining upvote momentum rapidly	Early viral trend discovery before content blows up

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⭐ Key Advantages & What You Get

• 📢 Complete Feed Freedom — Scrape any community by simply typing its name (e.g. technology) or pasting its URL (https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/).
• 🖼️ 100% Permanent HD Media Links — Expiring Reddit media links are automatically converted to permanent high-definition links that never break in your spreadsheets.
• 📊 Zero-Cleaning Exports (Excel, CSV, JSON) — Clean tabular records with scores, author flair, comment counts, and creation dates ready for instant analysis.
• ⚡ Lightning-Fast Execution — Extracts 50–100 posts in 1–2 seconds with zero waiting time.
• 💰 Fair & Predictable Pricing — From $0.50 per 1,000 posts with zero startup penalties and an unconditional $0.00 guarantee on empty subreddits.

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💡 Why Businesses Choose This Over Reddit Official API

• Zero API Developer Accounts or Approvals: Official access requires navigating Reddit's gated developer portal and satisfying strict commercial usage restrictions. UnitBytes works immediately with 1 click.
• Fraction of the Cost: Official enterprise access involves $1,000+/mo commitments. UnitBytes offers flexible Pay-Per-Event pricing starting at $0.50 per 1,000 posts with zero minimums.
• Permanent HD Media Links: Stop dealing with expiring media URLs that break your spreadsheets after a few hours. UnitBytes rewrites all media links to permanent CDN assets (i.redd.it).
• Instant Multi-Subreddit Batching: Scrape multiple communities in a single automated run without managing OAuth2 token refreshes, rate limits, or pagination tokens.

🏆 How It Compares to Other Options

Feature / Capability	UnitBytes Subreddit Scraper	Official Reddit API	Other Scraping Tools
Setup & Approvals	✅ Instant 1-click start (Zero setup)	🛑 Strict approvals & developer contracts	❌ None needed
Cost per 1,000 Posts	💰 $0.50 – $1.00	💵 $0.24 + Enterprise monthly fees	💸 $2.00 – $5.00
Permanent Media Links	✅ 100% Permanent HD Links (i.redd.it)	⚠️ Expiring signed URLs	❌ Often broken preview links
Data Format	✅ 1-Click Clean CSV, Excel & JSON	Complex nested JSON	Inconsistent columns
Time to Results	⚡ 1–2 seconds (Instant)	~3–5 seconds	🐢 30–60 seconds
Extra Compute Fees	✅ $0.00 (No hidden server fees)	N/A	💸 High hourly compute bills
Empty Subreddit Runs	✅ $0.00 (Guaranteed Zero Charge)	❌ Charged per call	⚠️ Charged start fees

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💎 Predictable Pricing & Volume Discounts

We use Apify Pay-Per-Event (PPE) pricing with active Store Discounts. Users on higher subscription tiers automatically unlock substantial volume discounts:

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

💰 What Does This Cost in Real Life?

Extraction Scenario	Posts Harvested	Estimated Cost (Starter / Scale)	Time to Complete
Daily Subreddit Pulse Check	100 Hot Posts	$0.05 – $0.08	~1 second
All-Time Greatest Hits Research	1,000 Top Posts (Year/All)	$0.50 – $0.80	~1–2 seconds
Multi-Community Competitor Audit	5 Communities × 500 Posts = 2,500 Posts	$1.25 – $2.00	~3–4 seconds
Retail Investor Sentiment Archive	10,000 Posts from r/wallstreetbets	$5.00 – $8.00	~10 seconds
Apify Free Plan Users	Up to 5,000 posts/month	$0.00 FREE (Included with $5 credit)	Instant

Fair Billing Guarantee: Zero charges on non-existent subreddits or empty feeds. Startup fee is capped at the platform minimum ($0.00005).

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🚀 3 Ready-to-Run Workflows

Workflow 1: Trending Community Discussion Monitoring

Track viral topics and daily sentiment in any target community.

1. Enter subreddit: "technology" or "wallstreetbets".
2. Select sort: "hot" or "rising".
3. Set maxItems: 50 or 100.
4. Click Start — download clean, sentiment-ready CSV/Excel in seconds.

Workflow 2: Best-Of-All-Time Content Research

Discover the highest-upvoted ideas, questions, and guides ever published in a subreddit.

1. Enter subreddit: "SaaS" or "marketing".
2. Select sort: "top".
3. Set timeFilter: "year" or "all".
4. Download the all-time greatest hits to inspire your content or marketing strategy.

Workflow 3: Multi-Community Batch Surveillance

Extract feeds from multiple communities simultaneously.

1. Add subreddit links into startUrls (e.g. r/Python, r/dataengineering, r/MachineLearning).
2. The scraper processes each community in sequence and combines all results into one unified dataset with community labels.

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📥 Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
subreddit	String	"technology"	Subreddit name to scrape (e.g. technology, wallstreetbets, SaaS).
startUrls	Array	[]	Optional direct subreddit URLs for multi-community scraping.
sort	Select	"hot"	Feed sort: hot, new, top, or rising.
timeFilter	Select	"all"	Time filter for top posts: all, year, month, week, day, or hour.
maxItems	Integer	50	Maximum number of posts to extract (1 – 5,000).
scrapeComments	Boolean	false	Whether to also extract comment threads for each post.
maxCommentsPerPost	Integer	20	Maximum comments to extract per post if enabled.
proxyConfiguration	Object	Default	Recommended proxy settings for high-speed, reliable extraction.
customProxyUrl	String	""	Optional custom proxy URL if you prefer your own provider.

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📤 Sample Output Datasets

Every extracted post is delivered as a clean, flat record ready for immediate analysis:

{
  "itemType": "post",
  "id": "t3_1x0b0f5",
  "title": "Major cybersecurity update released for enterprise systems",
  "subreddit": "technology",
  "author": "security_researcher",
  "score": 1250,
  "upvoteRatio": 0.96,
  "numComments": 142,
  "postType": "link",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1x0b0f5/...",
  "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1x0b0f5/...",
  "createdAt": "2026-10-11T10:15:00Z",
  "selftext": "",
  "flair": "Cybersecurity",
  "isOver18": false,
  "isPinned": false,
  "mediaUrls": ["https://i.redd.it/security_infographic.png"],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-11T16:00:00Z"
}

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📊 Instant Analysis in Excel, Google Sheets & Python

The pre-flattened dataset requires zero manual cleanup:

• In Google Sheets / Excel: Download CSV or Excel with 1 click. Sort by score to find top ideas or filter by flair to narrow down topics.
• In Python / Pandas:

  import pandas as pd
  from apify_client import ApifyClient
  
  client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
  items = client.dataset("DATASET_ID").list_items().items
  df = pd.DataFrame(items)
  
  # Filter high-engagement discussions
  viral_posts = df[df["score"] >= 1000]
  print(f"Extracted {len(viral_posts)} viral posts.")
  

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Can I scrape multiple subreddits in one run?

Yes. Use the startUrls field to add multiple subreddit URLs. The actor will scrape each one in order and merge them into one dataset.

Can I extract comments along with the posts?

Yes. Toggle scrapeComments: true and specify maxCommentsPerPost. The actor will harvest full discussions and replies for each post.

What happens if a subreddit does not exist or is private?

The actor finishes cleanly with exit code 0, outputs an empty dataset, and charges $0.00.

Are image and video links permanent?

Yes. Expiring Reddit media links are automatically converted to permanent high-definition CDN links that never expire.

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⚖️ Compliance & Privacy

This scraper extracts only publicly accessible posts that Reddit provides to web visitors. It does not access private or quarantine subreddits. Please ensure your usage complies with applicable data privacy laws and Reddit terms.