Reddit Subreddit Posts Scraper

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Bulk-fetch posts from any public subreddit by sort (hot, new, top, rising, controversial) with optional time filter.

Use cases

• Trend research — track what's hot in a niche subreddit hourly / daily.
• Sentiment & topic mining — feed post titles + bodies into NLP for community-level insights.
• Brand & competitor monitoring — watch r/yourbrand and adjacent communities for mentions.
• AI dataset construction — author-attributed long-form text + comment threads.
• Crisis monitoring — schedule frequent runs against r/news, r/worldnews during events.

Why use this actor?

• OAuth installed-app mode — 60 requests/minute when you pass a Reddit Client ID (recommended).
• Public .json fallback — works without auth (10 rpm/IP) when you don't have a client ID.
• All five sort modes — hot, new, top, rising, controversial.
• Time-bounded — limit top and controversial to hour / day / week / month / year / all.

Sample output

Input: r/programming, maxResults: 3

Reddit installed-app OAuth. DC IP blocked locally — works with Apify residential proxy.

[
{
"_input":"r/programming",
"_source":"S1-oauth-api",
"_scrapedAt":"2026-05-13T...",
"id":"t3_1a2b3c",
"fullname":"t3_1a2b3c",
"subreddit":"programming",
"title":"Show HN: I built a blazingly fast Rust web server",
"author":"rustacean42",
"score":1842,
"num_comments":234,
"upvote_ratio":0.96,
"url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1a2b3c/...",
"permalink":"/r/programming/comments/1a2b3c/...",
"created_utc":1778000000,
"is_self":false,
"domain":"github.com",
"stickied":false,
"over_18":false
}
]

Note

• For high-volume jobs, register an installed-app at reddit.com/prefs/apps and pass the Client ID — the public .json endpoint is rate-limited heavily by Reddit.
• Reddit blocks requests with a python-requests/* User-Agent; this actor sets a unique UA automatically.
• Banned, private, or restricted subreddits return _error.
• Posts marked over_18 are returned with the over_18: true flag set.