Reddit Scraper

Scrape public Reddit search results and subreddit listings, with posts, comments, and profiles available on a best-effort basis. No Reddit account or API key required.

liveasyncunknown~30s typical

social mediaailead generationreddit

$0.0014

per result + $0.005 call

plus $0.001 platform fee per run

Actor charges $0.00115 per result; Cracked adds 25% plus a $0.005 call fee

Bring your own Apify Store key: provider portion drops to $0.

Provider Upstream docs

$Set up https://cracked-ai-pearl.vercel.app/SKILL.md, then use Cracked to run apify /automation-lab/reddit-scraper for me.

Input

Field	Type	Description
urls	any	Reddit URLs to scrape. Supports subreddit URLs, post URLs, user profile URLs, and search URLs. API callers may pass either an array or a single URL string.
url	string	Optional compatibility alias for MCP/LLM tools that send a single URL instead of the canonical urls array. Prefer urls for new integrations.
comment_url	string	Optional compatibility alias for MCP/LLM tools. Use with commentContextMode=true to fetch focused context around a target comment.
commentUrl	string	Optional compatibility alias for MCP/LLM tools. Use with commentContextMode=true to fetch focused context around a target comment.
searchQuery	string	Search Reddit for this query. Alternative to providing URLs. Put subreddit/community names in Search subreddit; a subreddit name alone is not treated as a matching search result.
searchSubreddit	string	Limit Reddit search to one subreddit. Enter the name with or without r/ (for example: technology or r/apify). Leave empty to search all Reddit.
sort	string (hot \| new \| top \| rising \| relevance)	Sort order for subreddit listings and search results. default "hot"
timeFilter	string (hour \| day \| week \| month \| year \| all)	Time range filter (used with 'top' and 'relevance' sort). default "week"
maxPostsPerSource	integer	Maximum number of posts to scrape per subreddit, search, or user profile. Set 0 for unlimited posts. default 100
includeComments	boolean	Scrape comments for each post. Increases run time and cost. default false
maxCommentsPerPost	integer	Maximum comments to scrape per post. default 100
commentDepth	integer	Maximum reply nesting depth for comments, in levels. default 3
commentContextMode	boolean	When enabled and a Reddit comment URL is provided, fetch a focused best-effort context around that specific comment using Reddit public RSS/context output instead of treating the URL as a generic post URL. Default behavior stays unchanged when disabled. default false
commentContextDepth	integer	Best-effort context levels to request around a target comment URL. Reddit may return less context and does not expose complete tree metadata in RSS. default 3
filterKeywords	array	Only keep posts matching these keywords (case-insensitive). Leave empty to keep all posts. Useful when Reddit search returns loosely related results. default []
filterKeywordMode	string (any \| titleOnly \| all \| exactPhrase)	How keywords are matched: 'any' = post title or body contains any keyword; 'titleOnly' = only match against post title (strict); 'all' = title or body must contain ALL keywords; 'exactPhrase' = title must contain the exact phrase. default "any"
deduplicatePosts	boolean	Remove duplicate posts that appear in multiple sources or pages. Enabled by default. default true
outputFormat	string (default \| jsonl-finetune \| rag-markdown)	Controls the shape of output records. 'default' = standard post/comment objects (backward-compatible). 'jsonl-finetune' = instruction/response pairs for LLM supervised fine-tuning (SFT). 'rag-markdown' = markdown chunks with metadata for vector DB / RAG ingestion. default "default"
mcpDestinationConnector	string	Optional explicit opt-in destination for sending a bounded Reddit Scraper run summary after dataset output is saved. Select only a connector you want this Actor to write/post to; third-party credentials stay in Apify and are not exposed to the Actor. If the connector export fails, dataset results remain available.
mcpDestinationToolName	string	Optional exact connector tool to call. Leave empty to let the Actor choose the first safe send/post/write/create/append tool exposed by the selected connector.
mcpDestinationTarget	string	Optional channel, page, database, or destination identifier required by your connector tool. The value is passed only to the selected connector.
mcpExportMaxItems	integer	Maximum dataset records to include in the connector summary. The Actor always saves full results to the default dataset first. default 10

Call it

curl

curl https://cracked-ai-pearl.vercel.app/v1/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ck_live_..." -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"provider":"apify","endpoint":"/automation-lab/reddit-scraper","input":{"urls":["https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/"],"searchQuery":"web scraping tools","maxPostsPerSource":3,"maxCommentsPerPost":3},"wait":false}'

poll

curl "https://cracked-ai-pearl.vercel.app/v1/runs/<runId>?wait=30" -H "Authorization: Bearer ck_live_..."

cli

npx cracked-ai run -p apify -e /automation-lab/reddit-scraper -i '{"urls":["https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/"],"searchQuery":"web scraping tools","maxPostsPerSource":3,"maxCommentsPerPost":3}' -w 120

mcp

run_tool({ provider: "apify", endpoint: "/automation-lab/reddit-scraper", input: {"urls":["https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/"],"searchQuery":"web scraping tools","maxPostsPerSource":3,"maxCommentsPerPost":3}, wait: false })

Try it

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