Reddit Scraper
Free Reddit data with full comment trees
What it does
Honest Reddit scraping. Free to run: you pay only Apify platform compute. Deep historical backfill via after cursor. Full nested comment trees. Search, subreddit, user, and post modes.
Built in
- ✓ Free actor. No per-result fee, no monthly rental
- ✓ Full nested comment trees with replies
- ✓ Deep historical backfill via cursor
- ✓ 4 modes: subreddit, search, user, post
- ✓ Empty results are never charged
Guides & tutorials
Reddit Data for Market Research After the API Changes: What Still Works in 2026
Reddit locked down its API: enterprise-only commercial access, no self-serve pricing, and the old .json endpoints gone. Here are the working options for market research teams, with honest costs.
Reddit Official API vs Reddit Scraper in 2025: Costs, Limits, and What You Actually Get
Reddit changed its API pricing in 2023 to $0.24 per 1,000 calls. Here is what that means for data collection workloads, and how scraping compares on cost and data coverage.
Reddit Data for LLM Fine-Tuning: Quality, Licensing, and What Actually Works
How to use Reddit data for LLM training and fine-tuning: quality patterns, filtering strategies, preference pairs and evaluation sets.
Social Media Data for AI: Reddit, Threads, and the Open Web
Where to get social media data for LLM training, fine-tuning and RAG, with what is accessible on each platform and what it costs.
How to Build a Competitor Intelligence System Using Web Scrapers
How to build automated competitor monitoring with web scrapers: pricing, job postings, content and review tracking in one pipeline.
Reddit Sentiment Analysis Pipeline: From Raw Posts to Actionable Insights
How to build a production sentiment analysis pipeline on Reddit data, from scraping and preprocessing to classification.
How to Scrape Reddit Without an API Key in 2026
The old reddit.com .json endpoints now return 403 and commercial API access is enterprise-only. Every method that still works in 2026, with code you can use today.
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Common questions
Does this scraper require a Reddit API key? +
No. The Reddit Scraper works without any API key, OAuth token, or Reddit account. It accesses public subreddit data directly.
Can I get full comment trees with this Reddit scraper? +
Yes. The scraper returns full nested comment trees including replies to replies. Each comment includes author, score, timestamp, and parent relationship.
What does pay-per-result mean for the Reddit scraper? +
You pay only for posts that are successfully delivered. If a run returns zero results due to a private subreddit or network issue, no results are charged, only the small start fee.
How far back can I scrape Reddit posts? +
The scraper supports deep historical backfill using Reddit's after cursor. You can retrieve posts from years ago by chaining pagination runs.
What modes are available? +
Four modes: subreddit (all posts from a subreddit), search (keyword search across Reddit), user (a specific user profile and posts), and post (a single post with full comment tree).
Is there genuinely no per-result fee? +
Correct. The actor itself is free and you pay only Apify platform compute for the time a run uses. There is no per-row charge and no monthly rental.
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