Reddit Scraper Enhanced

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Scrape Reddit posts, comments, and subreddit analytics with built-in sentiment scoring. Uses Reddit's public JSON API — no browser automation needed, no datacenter IP blocks.

Use Cases

• Market Research — Monitor subreddit trends, track product mentions, analyze competitor discussions
• Sentiment Analysis — Automatically classify post/comment sentiment as positive, negative, or neutral
• Pain Point Discovery — Find complaints, feature requests, and frustrations in niche communities
• Content Ideation — Discover what topics resonate in your target communities
• Community Monitoring — Track brand mentions, competitor activity, and industry discussions
• Lead Generation — Identify potential customers expressing needs your product solves

Input

Example Output

{
"id":"abc123",
"title":"I built a tool that solved my biggest frustration with Reddit research",
"author":"example_user",
"subreddit":"startups",
"score":247,
"upvoteRatio":0.92,
"numComments":58,
"created":1713542400,
"url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/abc123/...",
"permalink":"https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/abc123/i_built_a_tool_that_solved/",
"selftext":"After months of manually scrolling through subreddits...",
"flair":"Tool",
"isStickied":false,
"isLocked":false,
"awards":3,
"sentiment":"positive",
"sentimentScore":0.6,
"positiveCount":4,
"negativeCount":1,
"top_comments":[
{
"author":"commenter1",
"body":"This is amazing! Exactly what I needed.",
"score":45,
"created":1713546000,
"depth":0,
"sentiment":"positive",
"sentimentScore":1.0,
"replies":[]
}
],
"commentCount":1
}

How It Works

1. No browser needed — Uses Reddit's public .json API endpoints
2. Built-in rate limiting — Respects 60 req/min with proper User-Agent
3. Simple sentiment scoring — Keyword-based analysis with no ML dependencies
4. Recursive comments — Fetches nested reply threads up to configurable depth
5. Proxy support — Use Apify Proxy to avoid rate limits

Quick Start

# Via Apify CLI
apify run --input='{"subreddit": "python", "sort": "hot", "maxResults": 100}'
# Or use the Apify Console / API

Limitations

• Reddit's JSON API returns max 100 items per request (the actor paginates automatically)
• Some subreddits may restrict API access
• Sentiment analysis is keyword-based and may not capture sarcasm or nuanced language
• Rate limits apply (~60 requests/minute with proper User-Agent)

Pricing

$0.002 per scraped post (PAY_PER_EVENT model).