Scrape Reddit

Unlimited Reddit web scraper to crawl posts, comments, communities, and users without login. Limit web scraping by number of posts or items and extract all data in a dataset in multiple formats.

liveverifiedasyncunknown~30s typical

redditpostscommentssubreddit

$0.0020

per result + $0.01 call

plus $0.001 platform fee per run

Rental actor: requires an active rental on the master account; compute billed per result

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 /trudax/reddit-scraper for me.

Input

Field	Type	Description
startUrls	array	If you already have URL(s) of page(s) you wish to scrape, you can set them here. If you want to use the search field below, remove all startUrls here.
skipComments	boolean	This will skip scrapping comments when going through posts default false
skipUserPosts	boolean	This will skip scrapping user posts when going through user activity default false
skipCommunity	boolean	This will skip scrapping community info but will still get community posts if they were not skipped. default false
includeMediaLinks	boolean	This will include upVotes, upVoteRatio, imageUrls, videoUrls, and numberOfComments when scraping posts. Enabling this will use a more detailed extraction method, which may affect performance. default false
searches	array	Here you can provide a search query which will be used to search Reddit`s topics.
searchCommunityName	string	If provided, the search will be performed only inside this community (e.g., 'programming').
ignoreStartUrls	boolean	Mainly used as a fix for ignoring starUrl on Zapier default false
searchPosts	boolean	Will search for posts with the provided search default true
searchComments	boolean	Will search for comments with the provided search default false
searchCommunities	boolean	Will search for communities with the provided search default false
searchUsers	boolean	Will search for users with the provided search default false
searchMedia	boolean	Will search for media with the provided search default false
sort	string ( \| relevance \| hot \| top \| new \| rising)	Sort search by Relevance, Hot, Top, New or Comments default "new"
time	string (all \| hour \| day \| week \| month \| year)	Filter posts by last hour, week, day, month or year
includeNSFW	boolean	You can choose to include or exclude NSFW content from your search default true
maxItems	integer	The maximum number of items that will be saved in the dataset. If you are scrapping for Communities&Users, remember to consider that each category inside a community is saved as a separated item. default 10
maxPostCount	integer	The maximum number of posts that will be scraped for each Posts Page or Communities&Users URL default 10
postDateLimit	string	Use this value to only retrieve posts published after a specific date.
commentDateLimit	string	Use this value to only retrieve comments published after a specific date inside a post.
maxComments	integer	The maximum number of comments that will be scraped for each Comments Page. If you don't want to scrape comments you can set this to zero. default 10
maxCommunitiesCount	integer	The maximum number of `Communities`'s pages that will be scraped if your search or startUrl is a Communities type. default 2
maxUserCount	integer	The maximum number of `Users`'s pages that will be scraped. default 2
scrollTimeout	integer	Set the timeout in seconds in which the page will stop scrolling down to load new items default 40
navigationTimeout	integer	Set the navigation timeout in seconds for page loading default 60
maxRequestRetries	integer	The maximum number of times the crawler will retry a failed request. default 6
proxy*	object	Either use Apify proxy, or provide your own proxy servers. default {"useApifyProxy":true,"apifyProxyGroups":["RESIDENTIAL"]}
debugMode	boolean	Activate to see detailed logs default false

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":"/trudax/reddit-scraper","input":{"startUrls":[{"url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/Peptides/"}],"maxItems":30},"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 /trudax/reddit-scraper -i '{"startUrls":[{"url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/Peptides/"}],"maxItems":30}' -w 120

mcp

run_tool({ provider: "apify", endpoint: "/trudax/reddit-scraper", input: {"startUrls":[{"url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/Peptides/"}],"maxItems":30}, wait: false })

Try it

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