How to Scrape Reddit Search — Free No-Code Guide (2026)

#reddit #webscraping #api #python

If you need to pull Reddit Search data at scale and there's no clean official API, this guide shows how to export it to JSON, CSV or Excel in a couple of minutes — with no scraping code to maintain.

We'll use the Reddit Search Scraper — Posts, Comments & Users, a hosted scraper on the Apify platform. You only need a free Apify token — no Reddit Search login, no proxies, no reverse-engineering.

What data you get

Each run returns structured records with fields like:

title
subreddit
author
text
createdAt
permalink
resultType
id
fullname
url
thumbnail
score
upvoteRatio
numComments

Results are paginated automatically — you can pull thousands of rows per run and export them as JSON, CSV, Excel, JSONL or XML.

Option 1 — No code (Apify Console)

Open the actor: https://apify.com/logiover/reddit-search-scraper
Click Try for free.
Leave the input empty for a broad sample, or set the fields below.
Run it, then Export the dataset as CSV/JSON/Excel.

Option 2 — Node.js

npm install reddit-search-scraper

const scrape = require("reddit-search-scraper");

(async () => {
  const items = await scrape({}, { token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
  console.log(items.length, "results");
  console.log(items[0]);
})();

Option 3 — Python

pip install reddit-search-scraper

from reddit_search_scraper import scrape

items = scrape({}, token="YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
print(len(items), "results")
print(items[0])

Grab a free token at https://console.apify.com/account/integrations.

Input options

Field	Type	What it does
`query`	string	Search keyword (optional)
`subreddits`	array	Subreddits (optional)
`sort`	string	Sort by
`time`	string	Time window
`type`	string	Result type
`maxResults`	integer	Max results per subreddit / search
`searches`	array	Advanced: explicit search list (optional)
`proxyConfig`	object	Proxy Configuration

Common use cases

Build a fresh Reddit Search dataset for analysis or dashboards
Feed Reddit Search records into your own app, CRM or spreadsheet
Monitor changes on a schedule and get alerts via webhooks
Enrich leads or research with up-to-date Reddit Search data

Automation & export

Because it runs on Apify, you can schedule it, trigger it via webhook, and pipe results into Google Sheets, S3, Zapier, Make or n8n. Every run's dataset is downloadable as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel or XML.