Reddit Scraper API
Extract subreddit posts, comments, vote counts, and user data from Reddit. The fastest Reddit scraping API with full JavaScript rendering for new Reddit and old Reddit layouts. Built on spider-browser .
Reddit is one of the richest sources of authentic user opinions, product reviews, and community discussions on the web. Spider renders both new and old Reddit interfaces, handles infinite scroll, and extracts structured data from any subreddit.
- target
- reddit.com
- success rate
- 99.9%
- handled
- Infinite scroll
Extract data in minutes.
import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";
const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
stealth: 2,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/");
await page.content(10000);
const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
const posts = [];
document.querySelectorAll("shreddit-post").forEach(el => {
const title = el.getAttribute("post-title");
const score = el.getAttribute("score");
const comments = el.getAttribute("comment-count");
const author = el.getAttribute("author");
const permalink = el.getAttribute("permalink");
if (title) posts.push({ title, score, comments, author, permalink });
});
return JSON.stringify({ total: posts.length, posts: posts.slice(0, 10) });
})()`);
console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();Start extracting reddit.com data in three steps.
Get an API key
Sign up free and a balance is credited to your account.
Configure the call
Set the target URL, output format, and rendering mode.
Get structured data
Clean JSON back in seconds, ready for your pipeline.
One endpoint for reddit.com.
Structured JSON from reddit.com with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/reddit.com/ \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"return_format": "json"}'import requests
resp = requests.post(
"https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/reddit.com/",
headers={
"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/reddit.com/", {
method: "POST",
headers: {
"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
body: JSON.stringify({ return_format: "json" }),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);What teams build with reddit.com data.
Sentiment Analysis
Analyze public opinion on products, brands, and topics across subreddit discussions and comment threads.
Market Research
Monitor niche communities for emerging trends, product feedback, and competitor mentions.
Content Aggregation
Build curated feeds from multiple subreddits for newsletters, dashboards, or AI training datasets.
Brand Monitoring
Track mentions of your brand, product, or competitors across relevant subreddits in real time.
Fields you can pull.
Full JS execution
Renders new Reddit's React SPA and handles infinite scroll to load complete post and comment threads.
Subreddit-level scraping
Process entire subreddits with automatic pagination, extracting thousands of posts concurrently.
Structured output
Clean JSON with posts, comments, vote counts, authors, timestamps, and nested reply trees.
Why teams pick Spider for reddit.com.
Free balance on sign-up. No credit card required to test.
About $0.08 per 1,000 pages on a datacenter-proxy workload. No monthly minimum.
Top up once, use it whenever. Unused balance carries over forever.
Scraping reddit.com.
Can I scrape Reddit without using their API?
Yes. Spider renders Reddit pages in a real browser and extracts data from the DOM, so you don't need Reddit API credentials or deal with rate limits.
Does Spider handle both old and new Reddit?
Yes. Spider's full browser rendering works with both old.reddit.com and the new React-based Reddit interface, including infinite scroll.
What data can I extract from Reddit?
Post titles, body text, scores, comment counts, authors, timestamps, subreddit names, awards, and nested comment threads.
How do I scrape Reddit comments?
Navigate to a post URL and Spider will render the full comment tree. Use page.evaluate() to extract nested comments with vote counts and author info.
Is scraping Reddit legal?
Scraping publicly available Reddit content is generally permissible. Spider only accesses public pages and respects robots.txt directives.
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Start scraping reddit.com.
Grab an API key and call the endpoint above. The first request resolves the config; every request after hits cache.