apify-reddit-research

Apify Reddit Research

Use this skill for Reddit discovery, subreddit monitoring, post/comment extraction, and discussion evidence gathering through Apify.

Actor

Use peakydev/reddit-scraper-post-comments-users as the default Reddit Actor.

Selection evidence as of 2026-04-30:

• Rating: 4.9 from 12 reviews.
• Pricing: from about $1.80 / 1,000 results.
• Maintenance: last modified about 14 days ago.
• Fit: posts, comment threads, users, listings, communities, and search terms without Reddit login.

Do not use good-apis/reddit-scraper; it had low usage signal and was marked under maintenance when reviewed. Do not use unrated, deprecated, subscription-first, or meta/generator Actors unless the user explicitly approves the exception.

Inputs

The Actor accepts either url or searchTerm; do not use both in the same input.

Known post URL:

{
  "url": [
    "https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/lp1hi4/is_webscraping_a_good_skill_to_learn_as_a_beginner/"
  ],
  "scrapeType": "post",
  "maxPosts": 10,
  "maxComments": 25
}

Subreddit listing:

{
  "url": ["https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/"],
  "scrapeType": "listing",
  "maxListingPosts": 25
}

Search:

{
  "searchTerm": "python web framework",
  "searchSort": "relevance",
  "searchTime": "month",
  "searchSubreddit": "python",
  "scrapeType": "post",
  "maxPosts": 25,
  "maxComments": 25
}

Run Pattern

1. Write the input under .tmp/apify-runs/.
2. Run with a low cap:

bun run ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/apify-actor-ops/scripts/run_actor.ts \
  --actor peakydev/reddit-scraper-post-comments-users \
  --input .tmp/apify-runs/reddit-input.json \
  --out .tmp/apify-runs/reddit-output.json \
  --max-total-charge-usd 0.25 \
  --max-items 100

1. Inspect the first output before increasing limits.
2. Keep maxComments, maxPosts, maxListingPosts, maxCommunities, and maxUsers deliberately low unless the user asks for breadth.

Normalization