Reddit Scraper

Scrape Reddit for structured data on communities, topics, posts, users, and comments. This actor is a cost-effective web scraper for analytics and trend monitoring.

Key Features

Scrapes data from three primary Reddit URL types:

• Communities (/r/):

  • Weekly stats: members, online count, active users, contribution count.
  • Post information: score, comment count, creation date, title.

• Topics (/t/):

  • List of related communities.
  • Information from posts within those communities.

• Users (/user/):

  • Profile overview: social media links, username, karma, trophies, active communities, profile picture.
  • User's posts and comments, including reply context.

How to Use

Configure the actor with a list of Reddit URLs to scrape. You can input direct links to subreddits (/r/wallstreetbets), topic pages (/t/action_games), or user profiles (/user/SomeUser).

The actor will process these URLs and output the corresponding data as structured JSON datasets.

Input & Output

Input: A list of Reddit URLs (communities, topics, or user profiles).

Output: JSON records. Below are examples of the data structure for different entity types.

Community Weekly Stats:

{
  "source": "wallstreetbets",
  "members": 19541823,
  "online": 3401,
  "weekly_active_users": 2300000,
  "weekly_contribution_count": 161000
}

User Overview:

{
  "source": "202naFrevliS",
  "profile_picture": "https://styles.redditmedia.com/t5_9c2h3s/styles/profileIcon_1zdj9gfms29f1.jpeg",
  "karma": "203,202",
  "contribution": "1,719",
  "account_creation_date": "2023-09-16T00:00:00.000Z",
  "name": "202naFrevliS",
  "socials": [{"platform": "twitter", "url": "https://twitter.com/Silverfan101"}],
  "trophies": [{"name": "Two-Year Club"}],
  "active_in": [{"community": "DeathBattleMatchups"}]
}

Post Information:

{
  "source": "wallstreetbets",
  "link": "https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1o4lxej/usar_76k_yolo/",
  "comments": "7",
  "created_at": "2025-10-12T10:46:44.004000+0000",
  "post_title": "USAR 76k YOLO",
  "post_type": "image",
  "score": "15",
  "author": "Friendly_He-Man"
}

User Comment:

{
  "source": "202naFrevliS",
  "content": ["ALLEGEDLY the 4 most popular characters..."],
  "score": "35",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/DeathBattleMatchups/comments/1o47c0z/comment/nj0m5q6/",
  "creation_date": "2025-10-11T23:04:08.962000+0000",
  "author_name": "202naFrevliS",
  "replied_to": "Equivalent_Ant6794"
}