# Reddit Scraper Fast — Latest Posts & Search (No API Key) (`cryptosignals/reddit-scraper-fast`) Actor

Scrape Reddit posts from subreddits or search by keyword. Uses RSS feeds — no API key required. Get titles, authors, timestamps, and permalinks. Ideal for social listening, trend monitoring, and research. PPE pricing — pay only for results.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/cryptosignals/reddit-scraper-fast.md
- **Developed by:** [Web Data Labs](https://apify.com/cryptosignals) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, News, AI
- **Stats:** 41 total users, 4 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$5.00 / 1,000 result scrapeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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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.
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Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Reddit Scraper Fast — Newest Posts & Search

Grab the **newest posts** from any public subreddit, or **search Reddit by keyword** — no login, no API key, no OAuth. Clean JSON output, ready for data pipelines, dashboards, or research.

### Why This Actor?

- **No Reddit API key needed** — works against public Reddit, no app registration
- **No login, no OAuth** — just point it at a subreddit or a search term
- **Pay-per-result** — only pay for the posts you get back
- **Lightweight & fast** — pure HTTP, runs comfortably in minimal memory

### What It Does

- **Newest posts** — the most recent posts from any public subreddit
- **Keyword search** — search across all of Reddit, or scope the search to one subreddit
- Each post comes back with title, author, subreddit, body text, timestamp, and a direct link

### Scope & Limits (please read)

This actor focuses on doing two things reliably:

1. **Newest posts per subreddit** (up to **25** most recent)
2. **Keyword search**, sorted newest first (up to **25** results)

It does **not** scrape comment threads, user/profile histories, or sort modes
beyond "newest". Reddit's public feed returns at most **25** items per
subreddit or query, so `maxItems` is capped at 25.

### Input

| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|-----------|------|---------|-------------|
| `subreddit` | string | | Subreddit to fetch newest posts from (without r/) |
| `searchQuery` | string | | Keyword to search. Combine with `subreddit` to search within it, or leave `subreddit` empty to search all of Reddit |
| `maxItems` | number | 25 | Posts to return (1–25) |

**Examples**

Newest posts from r/wordpress:

```json
{ "subreddit": "wordpress", "maxItems": 10 }
```

Search r/python for "async":

```json
{ "subreddit": "python", "searchQuery": "async" }
```

Search all of Reddit for "self-hosting":

```json
{ "searchQuery": "self-hosting" }
```

### Output Example

```json
{
  "id": "1ttog80",
  "title": "Text align options gone after updating",
  "author": "example_user",
  "subreddit": "Wordpress",
  "selftext": "I updated my site and suddenly the text align options on built-in blocks are gone...",
  "createdUtc": 1780310800.0,
  "createdAt": "2026-06-01T18:46:40+00:00",
  "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1ttog80/text_align_options_gone/",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1ttog80/text_align_options_gone/"
}
```

### Use Cases

- **Market research** — track brand and product mentions on Reddit
- **Content discovery** — find fresh discussions in any niche
- **Lead/question finding** — surface people asking about a topic you cover
- **SEO research** — see what questions come up around your keywords
- **Trend monitoring** — watch the newest posts in a community

### Run timeout (important for automation)

A typical run finishes in **under 10 seconds**. If you drive this actor from the
API or a schedule, **do not set the run `timeoutSecs` below 60s.** Cold start
(container boot + image pull) plus a single slow network hop to Reddit can
briefly exceed a very short cap and abort an otherwise-healthy run as
TIMED-OUT. The actor's own default (120s) is safe — only override it upward.
Internally the actor enforces a hard fetch deadline and, if Reddit is slow or
throttling, exits cleanly with an explanatory status message instead of hanging.

### Notes

- Works only with **public** subreddits. Private, banned, or quarantined
  communities (and queries with no matches) simply return no posts.
- Subreddit and search terms are case-insensitive.

# Actor input Schema

## `subreddit` (type: `string`):

Subreddit to fetch newest posts from (without r/ prefix). Example: wordpress, python, dataisbeautiful. Returns up to 25 most recent posts.

## `searchQuery` (type: `string`):

Search Reddit for this keyword, sorted newest first. Leave 'subreddit' empty to search all of Reddit, or set it to search within that subreddit. Returns up to 25 results.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of posts to return (1-25). Reddit's public feed returns at most 25 newest items per subreddit or query.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "subreddit": "wordpress",
  "maxItems": 25
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {
    "subreddit": "wordpress",
    "maxItems": 25
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("cryptosignals/reddit-scraper-fast").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 = {
    "subreddit": "wordpress",
    "maxItems": 25,
}

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

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "subreddit": "wordpress",
  "maxItems": 25
}' |
apify call cryptosignals/reddit-scraper-fast --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=cryptosignals/reddit-scraper-fast",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/0m5eePWygpK4CSKXJ/builds/txt3gYCu6w8TSVwYV/openapi.json