Reddit Scraper — Posts, Comments, Search, Users & Communities (No API Key)

Scrape Reddit without the API. Paste any Reddit URL, community, username or keyword and export posts, comments, user profiles and communities to CSV, Excel or JSON. No Reddit account, no OAuth app, no API key, no proxies to buy. Pay per result with no start fee.

⭐ One Actor for every Reddit page · posts + full comment trees · keyword search · user and community data · proxies included · pay only per row delivered · API and MCP ready

What does Reddit Scraper do?

Reddit Scraper is an all-in-one Reddit data extractor. It reads the same public pages a logged-out visitor sees and turns them into clean, flat rows. You can mix every input type in a single run:

You paste	You get
A community, such as r/webscraping	Its posts, sorted by new, hot, top, rising or controversial
A post URL	The post and its comments, nested replies included
A username, such as u/spez	The profile, the user's posts and, optionally, their comments
A keyword, such as best crm for startups	Matching posts, communities or users from Reddit search
A Reddit search URL or share link	Whatever that link points to

Every row carries a type (post, comment, user, community) and a source telling you which input produced it, so a run with fifty inputs still exports as one tidy table.

What data can you scrape from Reddit?

Post fields

Field	Description
title, text	Post title and full self-text
url, id	Permalink and Reddit post ID
subreddit, subredditSubscribers	Community name and its member count
author, authorId	Username and account ID
score, upvoteRatio	Net upvotes and upvote percentage
numComments, crossposts, awards	Engagement counts
createdAt	ISO 8601 timestamp (UTC)
flair	Post flair text
link, domain	Outbound link for link posts
imageUrls, videoUrl, thumbnail	Media URLs, galleries included
isNSFW, isSpoiler, isStickied, isLocked, isSelf, isVideo	Flags

Comment fields

Field	Description
text	Full comment body
author, authorId, isSubmitter	Who wrote it, and whether they are the original poster
score, controversiality, awards	Engagement
depth, parentId, parentType	Position in the reply tree, so you can rebuild the thread
postId, postTitle, postUrl, subreddit	The post the comment belongs to
createdAt, isEdited, isStickied, distinguished	Timestamp and moderation flags

User fields

username, displayName, bio, totalKarma, postKarma, commentKarma, createdAt, accountAgeDays, followers, isVerified, hasVerifiedEmail, isPremium, isModerator, isEmployee, avatar.

Community fields

name, title, description, subscribers, activeUsers, createdAt, communityType, language, icon, isNSFW.

A Reddit API alternative

Since Reddit changed its API pricing, the official Data API needs a registered app, OAuth credentials and, for commercial use, a paid agreement. Free access is rate limited and listings stop at 1,000 items. PRAW, the Python wrapper most tutorials use, needs those same credentials and inherits the same limits.

This Actor is a Reddit API alternative for posts, comments, search results, user profiles and communities. It works without the Reddit API: there is no app to register, no client ID or secret, no token refresh and no API pricing to negotiate. You pay per row you export and nothing else.

	Official Reddit API or PRAW	This Actor
Setup	Register an app, manage OAuth tokens	Paste links or keywords
Commercial use	Paid agreement with Reddit	Pay per result
Rate limits	Yours to manage	Handled for you
Proxies and retries	Not applicable, but you build the pipeline	Included
Output	Raw API objects	Flat rows: CSV, Excel, JSON

Why use this Reddit scraper

No API key, no login, no rate-limit math

Reddit's official API needs an approved app, OAuth tokens and a paid tier for commercial volume. This Actor needs none of that. Paste links and press Start.

One price for everything, and no start fee

Most Reddit scrapers charge per result plus a fee every time a run starts, and some charge extra for comments. Here every row is the same price and starting a run is free, which matters when you schedule small runs every hour.

Proxies are included

Reddit blocks datacenter traffic. Every request here goes out through residential proxies, rotated automatically. You do not configure them and you do not pay for them separately.

You only pay for rows you receive

Billing happens right after each batch reaches your dataset. Stop a run halfway and you pay for half. Private, banned or empty targets cost nothing.

Built for pipelines

Flat rows, stable field names, ISO timestamps, and a source on every row. It drops straight into a spreadsheet, a warehouse, a vector store or an LLM prompt.

How to scrape Reddit

1. Open the Actor and paste your inputs into Reddit URLs, communities or users, one per line. Add keywords under Search keywords if you want search results.
2. Choose Sort and Time range for community listings and searches.
3. Set Max posts per target. Turn on Include comments for listed posts if you need comments for every post in a listing.
4. Press Start. Rows appear in the dataset as they are collected.
5. Export as CSV, Excel, JSON or XML, or read the dataset through the API.

💡 A post URL always returns its comments, up to Max comments per post. Set that field to 0 if you only want the post itself.

Input example

{
  "startUrls": [
    "r/webscraping",
    "u/spez",
    "https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1wrj0s2/"
  ],
  "searches": [
    "best crm for startups"
  ],
  "sort": "new",
  "time": "month",
  "maxPostsPerTarget": 100,
  "includeComments": true,
  "maxCommentsPerPost": 50
}

Field	Type	Description
startUrls	array	Any mix of Reddit links and short names, one per line: a post URL, a community (r/python or its URL, optionally with /top/?t=week), a user (u/spez or the profile URL), a search URL, or a share link. Anything that is not a link is treated as a search keyword.
searches	array	Keywords to search across all of Reddit, one per line.
searchType	string	What keyword searches return. Default "posts".
sort	string	Order for community listings and searches. relevance and comments apply to searches only; rising and controversial to community listings only. Default "new".
time	string	Time window for top, controversial and searches. Default "all".
maxPostsPerTarget	integer	Maximum posts to collect per community, user or search. Reddit itself stops a single listing at about 1,000 posts. Default 100.
includeComments	boolean	Also collect comments for every post found in a community, user or search. Post URLs you paste directly always return their comments. Default false.
maxCommentsPerPost	integer	Maximum comments per post, nested replies included. Set 0 to skip comments even for post URLs. Default 100.
commentSort	string	Which comments come first when a post has more than your limit. Default "top".
includeNSFW	boolean	Include posts, comments and communities marked 18+. Off by default. Default false.
maxItems	integer	Hard cap on billable rows for the whole run. 0 means no cap. Default 0.

Output example

A post row:

{
  "type": "post",
  "id": "1wab3cd",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/webscraping/comments/1wab3cd/how_do_you_handle_rate_limits/",
  "title": "How do you handle rate limits at scale?",
  "text": "We are collecting about two million pages a day and ...",
  "subreddit": "webscraping",
  "author": "data_wrangler",
  "score": 184,
  "upvoteRatio": 0.97,
  "numComments": 63,
  "createdAt": "2026-09-27T15:10:03Z",
  "flair": "Getting started",
  "isSelf": true,
  "isNSFW": false,
  "subredditSubscribers": 91250,
  "source": "r/webscraping"
}

A comment row from the same run:

{
  "type": "comment",
  "id": "pcdofpa",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/webscraping/comments/1wab3cd/how_do_you_handle_rate_limits/pcdofpa/",
  "text": "Rotate sessions before you hit the limit, not after.",
  "author": "proxy_pat",
  "score": 41,
  "depth": 1,
  "parentId": "pcdnx2q",
  "parentType": "comment",
  "isSubmitter": false,
  "postId": "1wab3cd",
  "postTitle": "How do you handle rate limits at scale?",
  "subreddit": "webscraping",
  "createdAt": "2026-09-27T16:02:44Z",
  "source": "r/webscraping"
}

Pricing

Pay per result. No start fee, no monthly rental, no minimum.

Event	Charged for	Price
result-scraped	each post, comment, user or community row delivered	$1.99 / 1,000

You export	You pay
1,000 results	$1.99
10,000 results	$19.90
100,000 results	$199.00

You are charged right after each batch lands in your dataset, so a run you stop early costs only what it delivered. Targets that fail, are private, or return nothing are free. Proxies are included in the price - there is nothing else to pay for.

Use cases

Market and product research

Pull every post from the communities where your customers talk. Read what they praise, what they complain about and which products they name, in their own words.

Brand and competitor monitoring

Schedule a keyword search for your brand and your competitors every hour. New mentions arrive in the same dataset, ready for a Slack alert or a dashboard.

AI training data and RAG

Reddit threads are question-and-answer pairs written by people. Export posts with their comment trees, keep depth and parentId, and you have conversation data for fine-tuning, evaluation or retrieval.

Sentiment analysis

Collect comments on a product launch, a game update or a policy change, then score them with your own model. score and createdAt let you weight by visibility and chart the trend.

Content and SEO research

Find the questions people keep asking in your niche. Sort by top for the year to see what resonated, then write the answer.

Academic and social research

Study how communities react to events. Rows carry stable IDs and UTC timestamps, so datasets are reproducible.

FAQ

Do I need a Reddit account or API key? No. It works without the Reddit API. The Actor reads public pages without logging in.

Is scraping Reddit legal? This is general information, not legal advice. The Actor collects only what any logged-out visitor can see, and never touches private communities, private messages or login-protected pages. Whether your use is lawful depends on where you are, what you collect and what you do with it. Usernames and posts can be personal data under laws such as GDPR and CCPA, and Reddit's User Agreement restricts automated collection and some commercial uses of its content. Collect only what you need, do not republish personal data, honour deletion requests, and ask a lawyer before building a commercial product on the data.

How many posts can I get from one community? Reddit stops any single listing at about 1,000 posts. To go wider, run the same community with several sorts (new, top for the year, top for the month, controversial) or add keyword searches restricted to that community. Duplicates are easy to remove on id.

How many comments can I get from one post? Up to 10,000 per post in this Actor. It expands "load more comments" and "continue this thread" branches automatically. For very large threads, the Reddit Comments Scraper goes up to 50,000 and does not charge for the post row.

Can I scrape private communities or deleted content? No. Only content visible to a logged-out visitor is returned. Removed comments are skipped and not billed.

Does it return NSFW content? Only if you turn on Include NSFW content. It is off by default, and skipped rows are not billed.

Can I search inside one community? Yes. Paste a search URL such as https://www.reddit.com/r/sales/search/?q=crm, or use the Reddit Search Scraper, which takes a list of communities.

How fast is it? A listing page holds 100 posts and a comment page up to 500 comments, so a typical run delivers a few thousand rows per minute.

Why did one of my inputs return an error row? The community or user may be private, banned, suspended or misspelled. Error rows name the input and the reason, and are never billed.

Can I run it on a schedule? Yes. Use Apify schedules, the API, or an MCP client.

Integrations

• Apify API - start runs and fetch datasets from Python, Node.js, cURL or any HTTP client.
• MCP server - call this Actor as a tool from Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT agents and any MCP client.
• No-code - Make, Zapier, n8n, Pipedream, Google Sheets, Airtable, Slack, webhooks.
• Schedules - run hourly, daily or weekly and append to the same dataset for monitoring.
• Exports - JSON, JSONL, CSV, Excel (XLSX), XML, HTML table, RSS.

Related Reddit scrapers

• Reddit Comments Scraper - every comment and nested reply from any post
• Reddit Search Scraper - posts, communities and users by keyword
• Reddit Lead Finder - people asking for what you sell, scored by buying intent

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Not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Reddit, Inc. This Actor reads only publicly available pages, does not log in and does not access private communities, private messages or deleted content. You are responsible for using the data in line with applicable laws, Reddit's terms and the privacy rights of the people whose public posts you collect.