Reddit Post Detail Scraper

Fetch a Reddit post by URL or <sub>/<id> shorthand with the full comments tree.

Use cases

• Discussion mining — capture comment threads for sentiment / topic analysis.
• Citation enrichment — turn a Reddit URL into structured JSON.
• Crisis comms — preserve community reactions to events.
• AI corpus building — author-attributed dialog data.

Why use this actor?

• One URL in, full thread out — post body + nested comments.
• OAuth installed-app support — 60 rpm vs 10 rpm public.
• Bulk-friendly — pass an array of URLs.

Sample output

Input: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1a2b3c/...

Includes post + top comments tree.

{
  "_input": "https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1a2b3c/...",
  "_source": "S1-oauth-api",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-05-13T...",
  "post": {
    "id": "t3_1a2b3c",
    "title": "Show HN: I built a blazingly fast Rust web server",
    "author": "rustacean42",
    "score": 1842,
    "num_comments": 234,
    "selftext": "Here's how I approached the problem..."
  },
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": "t1_abc123",
      "author": "commenter1",
      "body": "Great work! How does it compare to actix-web?",
      "score": 412,
      "replies": []
    }
  ]
}

Note

• Pass redditClientId in input or REDDIT_CLIENT_ID env var for OAuth mode.
• Very deep comment trees may exceed default maxComments budget — bump as needed.
• Removed / deleted posts return shells.