# Reddit (`canadesk/reddit`) Actor

Collect subreddit posts, search for keyword or users, and more from reddit.com! It's fast and costs little.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/canadesk/reddit.md
- **Developed by:** [Canadesk Support](https://apify.com/canadesk) (community)
- **Categories:** News, Social media, SEO tools
- **Features:** Full permissions
- **Stats:** 112 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 5 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-usage

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

⭐ For bulk mode and higher limits, use actor **canadesk/reddit-bulk** instead!

🛑 Reddit does not respond well to high-volume scraping. Keep the limit low and chain requests instead.

### Features

- **Search for Keywords**

  Set Keywords, Mode and Limit.

  In the raw data, field "kind" differentiates t3 (Post) from t1 (Comment).

- **Get Subreddit Posts**

  Set Keywords, Category, Mode and Limit.

- **Get Post Details**

  Set Post URL and Mode.

- **Get User Posts**

  Set User ID, Mode and Limit.

### Examples

You can also fetch raw data instead.

**Get Subreddit Posts** returns:

```
[
    {
        "title": "Was Alonzo Harris from Training day once a good man",
        "author": "Lower-Adhesiveness-3",
        "permalink": "/r/movies/comments/1hgmfpt/was_alonzo_harris_from_training_day_once_a_good/",
        "score": 4,
        "comments": 4,
        "timestamp": 1734473853
    },
    {
        "title": "Actors who were unconvincing as a parent and child?",
        "author": "Odd-Recognition4120",
        "permalink": "/r/movies/comments/1hgme6m/actors_who_were_unconvincing_as_a_parent_and_child/",
        "score": 1,
        "comments": 5,
        "timestamp": 1734473736
    },
    {
        "title": "Thoughts on Old Boy (2003 and 2013)?",
        "author": "Twistybananana",
        "permalink": "/r/movies/comments/1hglyqs/thoughts_on_old_boy_2003_and_2013/",
        "score": 6,
        "comments": 7,
        "timestamp": 1734472622
    }
]
```

**Get Post Details** returns:

```
[
    {
        "title": "Chrome Canary just killed uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2 extensions",
        "body": "",
        "comments": [
            {
                "author": "Neutral-President",
                "body": "I would argue that if you want to be free from advertising, perhaps using a web browser created and distributed by the world’s biggest advertising company Is not the wisest strategy.",
                "replies": [
                    {
                        "author": "[deleted]",
                        "body": "[removed]",
                        "replies": [
                            {
                                "author": "Quentin-Code",
                                "body": "This is missing one important point: why is google paying Mozilla. \n\nGoogle is not paying Mozilla only to be the default search, that’s not the real reason, the real reason is that Firefox is the legal argument of Google to say that they don’t have a monopoly with Chrome. If Firefox dies, Google will have to align much more money in legal battle and may still end up losing.\n\nIn addition Firefox will not die if Google stops paying: it’s open source and it will simply develop much slower and likely cut on some of its services.",
                                "replies": [
                                    {
                                        "author": "NYstate",
                                        "body": ">the real reason is that Firefox is the legal argument of Google to say that they don’t have a monopoly with Chrome\n\nYup. Google will has a monopoly. They make the phone, the OS, the search engine and steer the traffic to their services and earn them ads.Throw in YouTube and you have a total monopoly over the flow of the Internet. Google is *this* close to being under fire from the government but Firefox is their saving grace. All they need to do is to low advertise Firefox as an alternate and the trail is off",
                                        "replies": [
                                            ...
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            ...
                        ]
                    },
                    ...
                ]
            },
            ...
        ]
    }
]
```

### Limitations

1. Returns a maximum of 500 results per run.

2. Does not support bulk.

3. "Search for Keywords" rounds up the limit to the closest 100.

### Support

Always use a Residential or Custom proxy!

Open a new issue or contact support. Please share your Run URL and Input.

Cheers!

# Actor input Schema

## `process` (type: `string`):

Process to run.

## `keyword` (type: `string`):

Only applies to Search for Keywords and Get Subreddit Posts.

## `category` (type: `string`):

Only applies to Get Subreddit Posts.

## `postlink` (type: `string`):

Only applies to Get Post Details. Format: https://www.reddit.com/r/{TOPIC}/comments/{ID}/{TITLE}/

## `userid` (type: `string`):

Only applies to Get User Posts.

## `mode` (type: `string`):

Defines the JSON result format.

## `limit` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of results.

## `delay` (type: `integer`):

Waiting time between requests.

## `proxy` (type: `object`):

Select proxies to be used by your crawler.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "process": "gs",
  "keyword": "world news",
  "category": "new",
  "postlink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1fxf8iq/chrome_canary_just_killed_ublock_origin_and_other/",
  "userid": "",
  "mode": "1",
  "limit": 3,
  "delay": 3,
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "keyword": "world news",
    "postlink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1fxf8iq/chrome_canary_just_killed_ublock_origin_and_other/",
    "userid": "",
    "proxy": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("canadesk/reddit").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "keyword": "world news",
    "postlink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1fxf8iq/chrome_canary_just_killed_ublock_origin_and_other/",
    "userid": "",
    "proxy": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("canadesk/reddit").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "keyword": "world news",
  "postlink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1fxf8iq/chrome_canary_just_killed_ublock_origin_and_other/",
  "userid": "",
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call canadesk/reddit --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,canadesk/reddit"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/bwLrwG0RfaahKqrky/builds/pm5scIn44XPNodZKN/openapi.json