Reddit Subreddit Posts Scraper

Scrape any public subreddit for posts, scores, comments, authors, and metadata. No API key. No OAuth. No login. 100% free public Reddit JSON endpoints.

This actor pulls structured post data from any public subreddit using Reddit's official free JSON endpoints — no authentication required. Perfect for alt data, social listening, sentiment analysis, market research, AI training datasets, and content trend tracking.

What does Reddit Subreddit Scraper do?

You give it a list of subreddit names (e.g. wallstreetbets, webdev, saas, localllama, aitools). It pulls posts ranked by hot, new, top, rising, or controversial — paginating automatically up to your max — and returns each post as a clean structured row with:

• Title, author, score, upvote ratio, comment count
• Created timestamp (ISO format)
• URL (the linked content) and permalink (the Reddit thread)
• Linked domain (useful for tracking which sites get traction)
• Flair, awards, gilded count
• Body text for self-posts
• Thumbnail, media type
• Flags: stickied, locked, NSFW, video, self-post

Try it: leave the defaults (r/wallstreetbets, hot, top 50), press Start, and watch the dataset fill with the current top WSB stock-picking and meme posts in seconds.

Why use Reddit Subreddit Scraper?

Reddit is one of the most-cited alternative data sources for hedge funds and quant traders. The 2025 Nasdaq State of Alt Data report listed Reddit sentiment as a top-5 institutional alt data source. Beyond finance, Reddit is the backbone for:

• Hedge funds + quant traders — track r/wallstreetbets sentiment shifts before they hit price
• Marketing teams — find which posts and content domains are trending in your niche
• Founders + indie hackers — track r/SaaS, r/IndieHackers, r/Entrepreneur for market signals
• AI/ML researchers — collect training data for sentiment, summarization, instruction-following models (Reddit was famously sold to OpenAI for $60M as training data)
• Content marketers — find trending topics to write about
• Social listeners — monitor brand mentions, product feedback, complaints
• Journalists — break stories that emerge from niche communities first

This actor is dramatically simpler and cheaper than commercial alternatives like Brandwatch ($800+/month), Sprout Social ($249/month), or PRAW + custom infrastructure. It's also faster than the official Reddit API (which requires OAuth, app registration, and rate limit headaches).

How to use

1. Click Try for free (or Start)
2. Paste subreddit names into Subreddits (without the r/ prefix)
3. Pick the sort order (hot / new / top / rising / controversial)
4. Set max posts per subreddit (default 50, max 1000)
5. Click Start
6. Download as JSON, CSV, HTML, or Excel — or schedule daily runs

Input

• Subreddits — list of subreddit names (e.g. ["wallstreetbets", "webdev", "saas"])
• Sort order — hot / new / top / rising / controversial (default: hot)
• Time filter — hour / day / week / month / year / all (only for top and controversial, default: day)
• Max posts per subreddit — cap (default 50, max 1000)
• Include text — pull selftext for self-posts (default: yes)
• Min score — filter out posts below this score (default: 0)
• Extract domains — parse linked URLs to get the domain (default: yes)
• Proxy configuration — optional, recommended for high-volume runs

Output

{
    "subreddit": "wallstreetbets",
    "title": "NVDA earnings preview - what to expect",
    "author": "stocksavvy",
    "score": 1234,
    "upvoteRatio": 0.92,
    "numComments": 387,
    "createdAt": "2026-04-15T14:30:00.000Z",
    "url": "https://example.com/nvda-earnings-preview",
    "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/abc123/nvda_earnings_preview/",
    "linkDomain": "example.com",
    "flair": "DD",
    "isVideo": false,
    "isSelfPost": false,
    "isOver18": false,
    "selftext": null,
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://b.thumbs.redditmedia.com/...jpg",
    "mediaType": "link",
    "awardsCount": 5,
    "gilded": 2,
    "stickied": false,
    "locked": false,
    "edited": false,
    "domain": "example.com",
    "id": "abc123",
    "extractedAt": "2026-04-15T19:00:00.000Z"
}

Data table

Field	Type	Description
subreddit	string	Subreddit name
title	string	Post title
author	string	Reddit username (or null for deleted accounts)
score	number	Upvotes minus downvotes
upvoteRatio	number	0.0–1.0 ratio of upvotes to total votes
numComments	number	Comment count
createdAt	string	ISO timestamp
url	string	Linked URL
permalink	string	Direct link to the Reddit thread
linkDomain	string	Domain of the linked URL (e.g. example.com)
flair	string	Post flair (e.g. "DD", "Discussion", "Meme")
awardsCount	number	Total Reddit awards received
gilded	number	Number of gold awards
stickied	boolean	Pinned to the top of the subreddit?
locked	boolean	Comments locked?
isVideo	boolean	Reddit-hosted video?
isSelfPost	boolean	Text-only self-post?
isOver18	boolean	NSFW flag
selftext	string	Body text (for self-posts)
thumbnailUrl	string	Thumbnail image URL
mediaType	string	Reddit's post_hint (link, image, video, etc.)
id	string	Reddit post ID
extractedAt	string	When this scrape happened

Pricing

This actor uses Apify's pay-per-event pricing — extremely cheap for both small spot-checks and bulk historical pulls:

• Actor start: $0.01 per run
• Per post extracted: $0.005 per post

Example costs:

• Daily snapshot of r/wallstreetbets top 50 → $0.26/day = $7.85/month
• Hourly check across 10 niche subreddits (50 posts each) → ~$15/month
• Bulk historical pull of 1000 posts from one subreddit → $5.01
• Track 100 subreddits × 50 posts daily → ~$15/day = $450/month

Compare to Brandwatch ($800+/month minimum), Sprout Social ($249/month), or building your own PRAW pipeline (which requires OAuth, rate limit handling, and infrastructure).

Free Apify tier members get $5/month in platform credits, which covers ~1,000 posts per month.

Tips and advanced options

• Schedule hourly runs during market hours to track r/wallstreetbets / r/stocks sentiment changes in near-real-time
• Use sort: top + timeFilter: hour to catch breaking trending content
• Use sort: new + frequent runs to catch every post the moment it's submitted (great for keyword alerts)
• Track multiple sub-niches at once — pass an array of related subreddits (e.g. ["aitools", "localllama", "ChatGPT", "ClaudeAI"]) for a complete AI tools ecosystem snapshot
• Filter by minScore to only get posts that are gaining traction — eliminates the long tail noise
• Pipe into a quant model to test Reddit sentiment as an alpha factor
• Combine with the SEC EDGAR Filing Monitor to correlate r/wallstreetbets buzz with SEC filings
• Combine with the Hiring Signal Tracker to triangulate company growth signals across multiple data sources

FAQ and support

Do I need a Reddit API key or OAuth credentials? No. This actor uses Reddit's free public JSON endpoints (https://reddit.com/r/{subreddit}/{sort}.json), which require no authentication. We don't even ask for your Reddit username.

What about rate limits? Reddit's public JSON endpoints allow ~60 requests per minute per IP. For large jobs (1000+ posts across many subreddits), enable Apify Proxy in the input to rotate IPs and avoid rate limits.

Does this work for private or quarantined subreddits? No. Only public subreddits accessible without login are supported.

How does this compare to PRAW or the official Reddit API? PRAW is excellent for Python developers but requires OAuth setup and rate limit handling. The official Reddit API has stricter rate limits and requires app registration. This actor is the simplest path to clean Reddit data without any of that hassle.

Is this legal? Yes. Reddit's public JSON endpoints are explicitly designed for programmatic access. We respect rate limits and identify ourselves with a clear User-Agent header.

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