reddit.com
reddit.com, as data
One API turns any reddit.com page into markdown, structured JSON, its link graph or a screenshot, and crawls the whole site the same way. Run the call and the panel shows the live response.
- Fields
- Post title, Score, Comment count, Author and 4 more
We have not fetched reddit.com yet, so there are no measured numbers to show. Run the call on this page and the live response fills the panel.
Free balance on signup, no card. Failed requests cost $0.
No stored capture for reddit.com yet.
Press Run below to fetch it live. The response lands here.
What Spider does on reddit.com
Same key, five endpoints. Numbers appear once we hold a capture of this target.
Page to markdown
Clean text for RAG and LLM context, boilerplate removed. The lane that runs without a key.
Page to JSON
Spider reads the page and names the fields. Pass your own schema when you need exact keys.
Rendered capture
Real Chromium, full-page PNG. The same call also returns the rendered HTML.
- Rendering
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Full JS execution
Renders new Reddit's React SPA and handles infinite scroll to load complete post and comment threads.
- Scale
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Subreddit-level scraping
Process entire subreddits with automatic pagination, extracting thousands of posts concurrently.
- Data
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Structured output
Clean JSON with posts, comments, vote counts, authors, timestamps, and nested reply trees.
The call behind the panel
This request returns the page as markdown. Paste it with your key to run it at full rate.
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"url": "https://reddit.com", "return_format": "markdown"}'from spider import Spider
app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://reddit.com", params=params)
print(page[0]["content"])import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const app = new Spider();
const [page] = await app.scrapeUrl("https://reddit.com", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content);What reddit.com costs
You pay $1 per GB plus $0.001 per CPU minute, so most pages cost a fraction of a cent. Failed requests cost $0.
- Post title
- Score
- Comment count
- Author
- Subreddit
- Post text
- URL
- Timestamp
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.
Common questions
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.
Point this at the rest of reddit.com.
The same call takes any URL on reddit.com.