Reddit Post Detail Scraper

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Fetch a Reddit post by URL or '<sub>/<post_id>' shorthand, with full comments tree.

Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 results

Rating

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Developer

👁 Farhan Febrian Nauval

Farhan Febrian Nauval

Maintained by Community

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Monthly active users

3 days ago

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Use cases

Discussion mining — capture comment threads for sentiment / topic analysis.
Citation enrichment — turn a Reddit URL into structured JSON.
Crisis comms — preserve community reactions to events.
AI corpus building — author-attributed dialog data.

Why use this actor?

One URL in, full thread out — post body + nested comments.
OAuth installed-app support — 60 rpm vs 10 rpm public.
Bulk-friendly — pass an array of URLs.

Sample output

Input: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1a2b3c/...

Includes post + top comments tree.

{
"_input":"https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1a2b3c/...",
"_source":"S1-oauth-api",
"_scrapedAt":"2026-05-13T...",
"post":{
"id":"t3_1a2b3c",
"title":"Show HN: I built a blazingly fast Rust web server",
"author":"rustacean42",
"score":1842,
"num_comments":234,
"selftext":"Here's how I approached the problem..."
},
"comments":[
{
"id":"t1_abc123",
"author":"commenter1",
"body":"Great work! How does it compare to actix-web?",
"score":412,
"replies":[]
}
]
}

Note

Pass redditClientId in input or REDDIT_CLIENT_ID env var for OAuth mode.
Very deep comment trees may exceed default maxComments budget — bump as needed.
Removed / deleted posts return shells.