Reddit Scraper

Scrape Reddit posts and comments into clean, structured JSON, CSV or Excel. Pull recent submissions from any subreddit, search Reddit by keyword, collect everything from a user, or drop in a thread URL to grab the post and its comment tree — one tidy row per post or comment. Built for market research, brand monitoring, sentiment analysis, lead discovery and automations.

Features

• 🧵 Posts and comments — collect submissions, comment threads, or both in a single run.
• 🌐 Four ways to target — by subreddit, by keyword search, by author, or by a direct thread URL.
• 📝 Full text — post titles and self-text (text posts) plus the full body of every comment.
• 📊 Engagement metrics — score, upvote ratio and comment count for each post.
• 🌳 Comment trees — link and parent ids on every comment so you can rebuild the reply structure.
• 🗓️ Date filtering — limit results to a date range, or to the last N days.
• 🔀 Sort — newest first, or the highest-scoring content first.
• 🔗 Permalinks — a ready-to-open reddit.com link for every post and comment.
• 📄 Volume control — maxItems and maxItemsPerSource to balance coverage and cost.

Input

{
  "subreddits": ["aww"],
  "type": "both",
  "sort": "new",
  "maxItems": 50
}

How to use

Pick one or more targets — a subreddit, a keyword, an author, or a thread URL — choose whether you want posts, comments or both, set maxItems, and run. Mix inputs freely: add a keyword and a subreddit together to search within that subreddit.

Use cases

• Track brand, product or topic mentions across Reddit for sentiment and PR monitoring.
• Build datasets of posts and comments for research, NLP and trend analysis.
• Watch specific subreddits for new posts on keywords you care about.
• Pull an entire thread's comment tree for community and discourse analysis.
• Collect a user's post and comment history for account research.
• Feed structured Reddit records into a spreadsheet, database or analytics pipeline.

What you get

Each post is one dataset record:

{
  "type": "post",
  "id": "abc123",
  "subreddit": "aww",
  "title": "My cat just discovered the sunbeam",
  "author": "example_user",
  "selftext": "",
  "score": 5421,
  "upvoteRatio": 0.98,
  "numComments": 142,
  "createdAt": "2026-09-10T14:22:31.000Z",
  "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/abc123/my_cat_just_discovered_the_sunbeam/",
  "url": "https://i.redd.it/xxxx.jpg",
  "domain": "i.redd.it",
  "flair": null,
  "isVideo": false,
  "over18": false
}

Each comment is one dataset record:

{
  "type": "comment",
  "id": "def456",
  "subreddit": "aww",
  "author": "another_user",
  "body": "This is the best thing I've seen all day.",
  "score": 87,
  "createdAt": "2026-09-10T15:01:12.000Z",
  "linkId": "t3_abc123",
  "parentId": "t3_abc123",
  "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/abc123/_/def456/"
}

Output schema

FAQ

Do I need a Reddit account? No. Just enter a subreddit, keyword, author or thread URL and run.

Can I get a whole thread's comments? Yes. Put the thread URL in postUrls and set type to comments or both — you'll get the post and the comments beneath it.

Can I filter by date? Yes. Use postedAfter and postedBefore with a date (YYYY-MM-DD) or a number of days ago.

How many items can I collect? As many as your targets return. Use maxItems and maxItemsPerSource to control volume and cost.

What export formats are supported? JSON, CSV, Excel and XML, plus the Apify API for programmatic access.

Can I use this with n8n? Yes. Use the Apify node for n8n to run this Actor and pull its dataset straight into an n8n workflow — trigger it on a schedule, then route the rows to a database, spreadsheet or messaging step.

Can I connect it to other tools? The Reddit Scraper connects with almost any cloud service or web app thanks to integrations on the Apify platform. It works with Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub, Google Drive and many more, plus the Apify API, JavaScript/Python clients and MCP. Or use webhooks to trigger an action whenever a run finishes.

Notes

Returns only public Reddit content — the same posts and comments any visitor can see. This is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Reddit; "Reddit" is a trademark of its respective owner. Original clean-room implementation.

You pay only for what the run returns. Set a maximum cost per run and it stops cleanly at that limit.