👥 Reddit Community Scraper > 🆓 100% FREE | 📊 Full Subreddit Data | 🔒 No API Key Required A comprehensive tool for collecting information about subreddits and their post feeds with support for date filtering and sorting. --- ## ✨ Why Choose This Scraper? - ✅ Completely Free - No hidden costs or subscriptions - ✅ No Reddit API Key Needed - Works out of the box - ✅ Monitor Multiple Communities - Track unlimited subreddits - ✅ Residential Proxies Included - Avoid rate limits - ✅ Date Filtering - Get posts from specific time periods --- ## 🚀 Key Features - Community Metadata: Subscriber count, description, name - Post Feed: Collect posts with various sorting methods - Date Filter: Limit by publication date - Pagination: Automatic handling of large feeds - Post Statistics: Upvotes, comments, authors ## 📋 Input Parameters json { "startUrls": ["https://www.reddit.com/r/python"], "sort": "hot", "maxItems": 50, "postDateLimit": "2025-01-01", "skipCommunity": false, "debugMode": false } ### Parameters: - startUrls (array, required): List of subreddit URLs - sort (string): Sorting - hot, new, top, rising - maxItems (integer): Maximum number of posts - postDateLimit (string): Date limit in YYYY-MM-DD format (optional) - skipCommunity (boolean): Skip community metadata collection - debugMode (boolean): Debug mode ## 📤 Output Data ### Community Information: json { "dataType": "community_info", "url": "https://old.reddit.com/r/python", "title": "r/python - Python", "members": "1,234,567", "description": "News and discussion about Python...", "scrapedAt": "2025-01-20T10:30:00.000Z" } ### Post from Feed: json { "dataType": "post_preview", "title": "Python 3.13 Released!", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/...", "author": "username", "subreddit": "Python", "id": "t3_abc123", "upvotes": "1234", "comments_count": "56", "created_utc": 1234567890.0, "is_pinned": false, "scrapedAt": "2025-01-20T10:30:00.000Z" } ## 💡 Usage Examples ### Top 50 posts from r/Python json { "startUrls": ["https://www.reddit.com/r/python"], "sort": "top", "maxItems": 50 } ### New posts from the last month json { "startUrls": ["https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning"], "sort": "new", "maxItems": 100, "postDateLimit": "2025-01-01" } ### Community metadata only (no posts) json { "startUrls": ["https://www.reddit.com/r/programming"], "maxItems": 0, "skipCommunity": false } ### Monitor multiple communities json { "startUrls": [ "https://www.reddit.com/r/Python", "https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython", "https://www.reddit.com/r/django" ], "sort": "hot", "maxItems": 25 } ## ⚙️ Technical Details - Memory: 256 MB (optimized for efficiency) - Proxy: Residential (automatic, included free) - Timeout: 3600 seconds - Source: old.reddit.com - Date Format: ISO 8601 ## 📝 Notes - Support for various URL formats (r/python, /r/python/, full URL) - Automatic pagination for large feeds - Date filter stops scraping when limit is reached - Pinned posts are marked separately - All timestamps in UTC format --- ## 🎯 Perfect For - 📈 Community growth tracking - 🔍 Trend discovery and analysis - 📊 Competitive research - 🤖 Content aggregation - 📰 News monitoring --- 💬 Questions or Issues? Feel free to reach out or check the documentation!