Reddit Scraper for Users

Overview

This actor scrapes public Reddit user data without requiring authentication. It extracts a user's profile information, submitted posts, and comment history from any public Reddit profile.

Key Features

• No authentication required – uses public API endpoints.
• Extracts three data types from a user's profile:
  • Profile metadata (karma, account age, badges, personal subreddit details).
  • Submitted posts (title, content, scores, subreddit info, media links, flair).
  • Comments (text, scores, parent context, links to source posts).
• Simple input – just provide the target user's Reddit URL.
• Cost-effective – estimated at ~$0.015 per 1,000 results.

How to Use

Provide the Reddit user profile URL as the primary input. The scraper supports both common URL formats:
* https://www.reddit.com/user/username
* https://www.reddit.com/u/username

The actor will automatically paginate through the user's activity to collect available data.

Input & Output

Input:
* userUrls: (Required) An array containing one or more Reddit profile URLs.

Output:
The dataset contains items with a contentType field indicating the record type: "user", "post", or "comment".

Example Output Snippet:

[
  {
    "contentType": "user",
    "username": "example_user",
    "totalKarma": 19134,
    "createdAt": "2021-01-01T00:00:00Z"
  },
  {
    "contentType": "post",
    "title": "Interesting research on distributed systems",
    "subreddit": "technology",
    "score": 512,
    "permalink": "https://reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1abcxyz/..."
  }
]

Available Formats: JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, HTML.

Use Cases

• Research: Analyze influencer activity or competitor engagement.
• Community Analysis: Map a user's participation across subreddits.
• Content Review: Audit public posting and commenting history.

Find the actor on Apify: https://apify.com/lukaskrivka/reddit-scraper-for-users?fpr=python_automation