# 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 - **Stats:** 111 total users, 0 monthly users, 96.6% runs succeeded, 5 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing $5.00/month + usage To use this Actor, you pay a monthly rental fee to the developer. The rent is subtracted from your prepaid usage every month after the free trial period. You also pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher Apify subscription plan you have. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#rental-actors ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows. 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. Actors are written with capital "A". ## 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. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. - **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use). - **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`. - **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`. - **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`. - **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # 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/", "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 '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ 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 '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # 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 ` 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