Reddit Hot Scraper

What does Reddit Hot Scraper do?

Reddit Hot Scraper is an ultra-fast, premium Apify Actor that extracts the top/hottest posts or searches for specific keywords across any subreddit. It pulls data directly from the Reddit JSON API, minimizing overhead and returning data in milliseconds.

Because it supports Apify Residential Proxies and Deep Comment Extraction, it stands far above the rest—yielding pure data at scale without getting blocked.

It allows you to extract:

• Post Titles & Authors
• Upvote counts and Comment counts
• Top 10 Comments per post (Optional)
• Search Specific Keywords via Reddit Search
• Clean direct URLs
• The raw text content of the post
• Formatting and creation dates

Why use Reddit Hot Scraper?

• Search Enabled: Tap into historical context or specific conversations by running deep keyword searches inside any community.
• Deep Comment Extraction: Not just posts! Enable scrapeComments to extract the most upvoted comments from every post automatically, supplying high-quality community sentiment straight to your dataset.
• Proxy Supported: Built-in proxyConfiguration seamlessly routes requests through Apify infrastructure, rendering your scraper invisible to anti-bot algorithms.
• Cheap: Despite the premium features, bypassing bloated headless browsers guarantees fractional costs per run (less than traditional crawlers).

How to use Reddit Hot Scraper

1. Go to the Input tab.
2. Enter the name of the subreddit you want to scrape (e.g. javascript, python, news).
3. (Optional) Enter a searchKeyword if you want to find specific topics instead of general hot posts.
4. Set the maxPosts number.
5. (Optional) Check the scrapeComments toggle to extract top comments for every post found.
6. Check your proxyConfiguration to ensure you are avoiding rate limits.
7. Click Start.

Input

Field	Type	Description
subreddit (required)	String	The exact name of the subreddit without "r/" (e.g., javascript)
maxPosts	Integer	Maximum number of posts to pull (default 10).
searchKeyword	String	A specific keyword or phrase to search within the subreddit.
scrapeComments	Boolean	If true, recursively fetches the highest rated comments for each post (slightly slower execution).
proxyConfiguration	Object	Connect to Apify residential/datacenter proxies.

Output

The tool outputs a clean dataset with a structure like this:

{
  "title": "Help! What does this javascript error mean?",
  "author": "devguru99",
  "upvotes": 412,
  "commentCount": 34,
  "url": "https://reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/...",
  "text": "I was working on my node app and saw this...",
  "subreddit": "javascript",
  "created": "2024-03-24T18:32:00.000Z",
  "comments": [
    {
      "author": "helpfulDev",
      "upvotes": 120,
      "body": "You forgot to await a promise!",
      "created": "2024-03-24T18:35:00.000Z"
    }
  ]
}

Pricing / Cost estimation

Since this uses pure HTTP requests via lightweight Axios fetching, running this scraper costs merely fractions of a cent per run. You can comfortably scrape thousands of posts! Even with scrapeComments enabled, it uses highly optimized concurrent endpoint requests.

Disclaimer

Always respect Reddit's API Terms of Service. This tool is built strictly for structural extraction of publicly available top posts.