Reddit Comment Scraper - Top Threads and Their Replies
Top r/AskReddit questions with their highest replies. Comments need a free Reddit app client ID and secret; anonymous Reddit usually blocks them.
What this run is set to
The settings saved on this example. Every one of them is editable once you open it on Apify — these are a starting point, not a limit.
| Setting | Value | What it does |
|---|---|---|
Sources (subreddits or user profiles) | r/AskReddit | Any mix of subreddits and Reddit user profiles. |
Fetch method | oauth | rss = no key/login needed (recommended, default). |
Sort | top | top, hot (trending), new (latest), rising, or controversial. |
Time range | day | Time window for 'top' and 'controversial' sorts (ignored for hot/new/rising). |
Max stories per subreddit | 20 | How many qualifying stories to return per subreddit. |
Minimum upvotes | 1000 | Skip posts below this upvote count. |
Comments per post | 15 | Fetch up to this many top comments per post (0 = none). |
Clean narration text | off | Strip markdown/links/edit-stamps and produce TTS-ready sentences. |
Pricing
$0.0005 per Reddit post = $0.5 per 1,000
| You are charged for | When | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Reddit post scraped | One Reddit post in the dataset. | $0.0005 |
Pay-per-event pricing: you are billed per result, not per subscription. Billing is handled by Apify on your own account. These are the live Apify store prices, in effect since 2026-08-04, and they are what you are actually charged.
What you get
A structured dataset — each result includes fields like:
authorcreatedUtcfetchedAtfitsShortflairhookScoreidisStorynarrationnumCommentsover18postTypereadTimeSecondsscoresubreddittitleselftextfetchedCommentCounturlExport every run as JSON, CSV or Excel, or send it to your app, a database, Google Sheets, or an AI agent.
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Built on Reddit Scraper — every input, output field, price and the full how-to are on the tool page.
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