Reddit Scraper

Apify

Collect public Reddit posts and optional comment context by query, sort and time range.

Current price
$0.0014/result
Availability
Ready to run
Last accepted verification

What this API does

Search public Reddit posts and optionally return a bounded number of comments for each matching discussion.

Agents select this operation with tool ID apify.thirdwatch-reddit-scraper, then inspect its current executable contract before a run.

Public input and output shape

Input

inputobject · required

Provider-specific public source, URL or search criteria.

maxItemsinteger · optional

Maximum number of records to return.

minimum: 1 · maximum: 100

Output

comment_countnumber

Returned comment count value.

scorenumber

Returned score value.

source_urlstring

Returned source url value.

subredditstring

Returned subreddit value.

textstring

Returned text value.

titlestring

Returned title value.

Example request and output

This reviewed worked example is shared with inspect. Inspect also returns the current executable schema and price estimate before a paid run.

Request

{
  "tool_id": "apify.thirdwatch-reddit-scraper",
  "input": {
    "input": {
      "sort": "relevance",
      "queries": [
        "Crawlee web scraping"
      ],
      "maxResults": 1,
      "timeFilter": "all",
      "includeComments": true,
      "maxCommentsPerPost": 1
    },
    "maxItems": 1
  }
}

Output

{
  "text": "A buyer describes a 20,000-product daily extraction workload and asks for an agency experienced with Crawlee, Playwright, proxy rotation and scraper maintenance.",
  "score": 14,
  "title": "Looking for best web scraping agency for automated data extraction at scale",
  "subreddit": "automation",
  "source_url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/automation/comments/1ojgne4/looking_for_best_web_scraping_agency_for/",
  "comment_count": 74
}
Teaching errors and limitations

No listing-specific teaching errors are published. Inspect the tool before running to receive the current schema and error guidance.

Updated
23 August 2026

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