Reddit User Profile Scraper

Extract public profile data from any Reddit user in bulk — post karma, comment karma, account creation date, trophies (verified email, premium, employee), profile picture, and Reddit's internal user ID — in a clean structured JSON output.

Why use this actor

• No account / no login required — just give it a Reddit username or profile URL.
• No API key needed — works out of the box; you can optionally plug in a Reddit Client ID for higher throughput.
• Rich detail — post karma and comment karma broken out separately, account creation timestamp, verified-email flag, premium / employee / mod badges, avatar URL, and the stable id (t2_xxx) you can use to cross-reference with other Reddit records.
• Bulk input — pass a list of usernames or URLs in one run; one clean dataset row per profile.
• Automatic retries — transient failures retry with exponential backoff; profiles that genuinely don't exist surface as _error: "not_found" so you can triage failures.
• Stable JSON output suitable for pipelines, spreadsheets, and databases — every row carries _input, _source, _scrapedAt envelope fields so you can join results back to your input list.

How it works

1. You provide a list of Reddit usernames (e.g. spez) or full profile URLs (e.g. https://www.reddit.com/user/spez/).
2. The actor fetches each profile and reads the same about record Reddit's web app shows, then assembles a flat JSON row.
3. If the primary path is rate-limited, the actor automatically falls back to a public path so the run keeps moving.
4. Results stream into your dataset, ready to download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

You do not need to manage scrapers, browsers, or rotating IPs — all handled internally.

Input

{
  "usernames": [
    "spez",
    "GoldenSights"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["DATACENTER"]
  }
}

Field	Type	Description
usernames	array	List of Reddit usernames or profile URLs to scrape. Both spez and https://www.reddit.com/user/spez/ are accepted.
redditClientId	string	(Optional.) Token that unlocks a higher-throughput path (~60 rpm vs ~10 rpm). Leave blank to use the public path. Get one for free at reddit.com/prefs/apps.
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy settings. Datacenter proxy works for most cases; Residential recommended for runs above 5,000 profiles.

Output

Input: spez

{
  "_input": "spez",
  "_source": "S3-fallback",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-05-18T11:09:11.628957+00:00",
  "id": "1w72",
  "name": "spez",
  "created_utc": 1118030400.0,
  "link_karma": 182650,
  "comment_karma": 755338,
  "awardee_karma": 0,
  "awarder_karma": 0,
  "total_karma": 937988,
  "is_gold": true,
  "is_mod": true,
  "is_employee": true,
  "is_friend": false,
  "is_blocked": false,
  "verified": true,
  "has_verified_email": true,
  "hide_from_robots": false,
  "accept_followers": true,
  "has_subscribed": true,
  "pref_show_snoovatar": false,
  "snoovatar_img": "",
  "snoovatar_size": null,
  "icon_img": "https://styles.redditmedia.com/t5_3k30p/styles/profileIcon_uj015iwx9s7g1.png?width=256&height=256&crop=256:256,smart&s=aa819b0964f6e3019e769d1cc8ede7318c3869a3",
  "subreddit": {
    "display_name": "u_spez",
    "display_name_prefixed": "u/spez",
    "title": "spez",
    "public_description": "Reddit CEO",
    "subscribers": 0,
    "subreddit_type": "user",
    "url": "/user/spez/",
    "over_18": false,
    "name": "t5_3k30p"
  }
}

Field	Type	Description
_input	string	The username or URL exactly as you supplied it. Use this to join results back to your input list.
_source	string	Internal tag for the path used to fetch the record. S1-primary = fastest authenticated path; S2-fallback / S3-fallback = public fallback paths.
_scrapedAt	string	ISO-8601 UTC timestamp when the record was scraped.
id	string	Reddit's internal user ID (without the t2_ prefix). Stable across username changes.
name	string	Current username.
created_utc	number	Account creation time as a UNIX timestamp (seconds since epoch).
link_karma	integer	Karma earned from posts (submissions).
comment_karma	integer	Karma earned from comments.
awardee_karma	integer	Karma earned from awards received.
awarder_karma	integer	Karma earned from giving awards.
total_karma	integer	Sum of all karma types.
is_gold	boolean	true if the user has Reddit Premium.
is_mod	boolean	true if the user moderates at least one subreddit.
is_employee	boolean	true if the user is a Reddit employee (admin).
verified	boolean	true if Reddit has verified the account (e.g. AMA-verified, official).
has_verified_email	boolean	true if the user has confirmed their email address.
is_friend	boolean	Always false for unauthenticated scrapes — kept for parity with Reddit's payload.
is_blocked	boolean	Always false for unauthenticated scrapes — kept for parity.
hide_from_robots	boolean	true if the user opted out of search-engine indexing.
accept_followers	boolean	true if other users can follow this profile.
icon_img	string	URL of the profile avatar.
snoovatar_img	string	URL of the user's custom Snoovatar, if set.
subreddit	object	The user's own u_<name> profile subreddit — display name, public description ("bio"), banner, subscriber count, and NSFW flag.

Error envelope

Profiles that don't exist or fail to fetch return a structured error instead of crashing the run:

{
  "_input": "this-user-does-not-exist-xyz",
  "_error": "not_found",
  "_errorDetail": "NotFound https://old.reddit.com/user/this-user-does-not-exist-xyz/about.json",
  "_source": "S3-fallback",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-05-18T11:09:11.628957+00:00"
}

Filter on _error to triage failed rows. Possible values: not_found (404 — deleted, never existed, or suspended), fetch_failed (transient errors after all retries exhausted).

Pricing

This actor is billed per result: $3.50 per 1,000 profiles (Tier 3). Each successful profile = 1 result. Errors (not-found, fetch-failed) are not billed.

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Browse the full catalog at apify.com/xtracto.

Notes

• Deleted, never-existed, or fully-suspended accounts return {"_error": "not_found", "_input": "..."}.
• Shadowbanned users still resolve normally — Reddit's about endpoint returns their public record even when their posts are hidden from feeds. Use the karma fields and created_utc to spot suspicious accounts.
• Counters (link_karma, comment_karma, total_karma) are eventually-consistent and may lag the live count by a few minutes.
• The internal id (e.g. 1w72, full form t2_1w72) is the most reliable identifier — usernames can change but id does not.
• For large jobs (>5,000 profiles), switch the proxy group to RESIDENTIAL to avoid per-IP rate limits.