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Reddit Scraper Pro

A production-ready Apify Actor that scrapes Reddit posts, comments, subreddit info, and user profiles without login — using Reddit's public .json endpoints.

Features

• 📝 Post scraping — title, text, author, score, media, timestamps
• 💬 Comment scraping — recursive comment tree parsing with depth tracking
• 📊 Subreddit info — members, description, category, icons
• 👤 User profiles — karma, account age, recent activity
• 🔍 Keyword search — search Reddit with sort options
• 📄 Pagination — automatic pagination until limits are reached
• 🔄 Rate limiting — respects Reddit rate limits with delays and concurrency caps
• 🛡️ Proxy support — Apify Proxy or custom proxy configuration
• ⚡ Fast — uses CheerioCrawler (no browser overhead)

Input

Example Input

{
"startUrls":[
{"url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/"},
{"url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/abc123/some_post/"}
],
"searchKeywords":["AI tools","web scraping"],
"maxPosts":100,
"maxComments":200,
"sortBy":"hot",
"scrapePosts":true,
"scrapeComments":true,
"scrapeUsers":false
}

Output

Each item in the dataset has a type and data field:

Post

{
"type":"post",
"data":{
"postId":"abc123",
"title":"Example Post Title",
"postText":"Post body text...",
"username":"author_name",
"upvotes":1234,
"score":1234,
"numberOfComments":56,
"postUrl":"https://www.reddit.com/r/sub/comments/abc123/...",
"mediaUrls":["https://i.redd.it/image.jpg"],
"subreddit":"r/programming",
"flair":"Discussion",
"timestamp":"2024-01-15T10:30:00.000Z"
}
}

Comment

{
"type":"comment",
"data":{
"commentId":"xyz789",
"commentText":"This is a comment...",
"username":"commenter",
"upvotes":42,
"timestamp":"2024-01-15T11:00:00.000Z",
"commentUrl":"https://www.reddit.com/r/sub/comments/abc123/.../xyz789/",
"parentPostId":"abc123",
"depth":0
}
}

Subreddit

{
"type":"subreddit",
"data":{
"name":"programming",
"fullName":"r/programming",
"members":5000000,
"activeUsers":12000,
"category":"Technology",
"communityUrl":"https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/",
"description":"..."
}
}

User

{
"type":"user",
"data":{
"username":"spez",
"totalKarma":250000,
"postKarma":100000,
"commentKarma":150000,
"accountAge":"6205 days",
"cakeDay":"2005-06-06T...",
"recentPosts":[],
"recentComments":[]
}
}

URL Types Supported

Rate Limiting

The Actor respects Reddit's rate limits:

• Max 3 concurrent requests
• Max 30 requests per minute
• Random delays (1–3s) between requests
• Automatic retry with backoff on 429 responses
• Session pool for sticky proxy rotation