Reddit keyword search scraper that finds viral posts across communities and exports 40 post fields with engagement metrics, media, and crosspost spread. Five sort modes, time windows, optional bounded comments; Reddit search caps near 250 results per query. From $3.75 per 1,000 posts.
At a glance
| Store brand | AgentX — apify.com/agentx |
|---|---|
| Pricing model | pay per event |
| Price per result row | $0.005 on the Free plan |
| 1,000 rows (Free plan) | $5.01 |
| 1,000 rows (Gold plan) | $3.76 |
| Default / max memory | 1024 MB / 2048 MB |
| Run timeout | 12 h |
| Public runs, last 30 days | 86 · 96.5% succeeded |
| Users | 7 in 30 days · 55 all time |
| First published | November 1, 2025 |
| Last build | 1.0.19 on August 19, 2026 |
What you have to give it
5 of the 5 input fields are required; the rest have defaults and can be left out.
| Field | Type | Required | Accepted values | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
keyword | string | yes | artificial intelligence | Search keyword to find Reddit posts across all subreddits |
sort_by | string | yes | relevance, hot, top … | Sort results by relevance, hot, top, new, or comment count |
time_filter | string | yes | all, hour, day … | Filter results to posts published within a set time period |
max_posts | integer (posts) | yes | 1 | Posts to return, minimum 1 and no upper limit. A broad measured search stopped at 230 unique posts after three pages even when 300 or 1,000 were requested. |
max_comments | integer (comments) | yes | 0 | Comments per post, minimum 0 and no upper limit. A comment tree returns about 450 in one read and names the rest, which this actor then resolves in bounded rounds. Set 0 to skip comments entirely. |
A run that works
The values below are the Actor's own prefills, so this input is valid as written:
{
"keyword": "artificial intelligence",
"sort_by": "relevance",
"time_filter": "all",
"max_posts": 1,
"max_comments": 0
}What comes back
Every dataset row carries the 52 fields below. The examples are the ones declared in the Actor's own output schema.
| Field | Type | Example | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
subreddit | string | null | interestingasfuck | Community the post was published in, without the r/ prefix. |
subreddit_id | string | null | 2qh33 | Stable Reddit identifier for the community, without the t5_ kind prefix. |
subreddit_type | string | null | public | Community visibility: public, restricted, private or user. |
subreddit_subscribers | integer | null | 14200000 | Member count of the community at the time of the request. |
id | string | null | 1v5rfpj | Reddit's identifier for the post. |
author | string | null | spez | Username of the poster, without the u/ prefix. Null when the account was deleted. |
author_id | string | null | 14wpd9 | Stable Reddit account identifier, without the t2_ kind prefix. Null for deleted accounts. |
author_flair | string | null | Professor | Medicine | The author's flair in this community, which is how the community labels who is speaking. Null when the author has no flair there. |
created | string | null | 2026-07-28T09:14:02+00:00 | ISO 8601 posting time (UTC). Null when the source does not return it, never substituted with the run time. |
edited | string | null | — | ISO 8601 time of the last edit, null when never edited. |
url | string | null | https://www.reddit.com/r/Animemes/comments/1v5rfpj/example/ | Permanent address of the post on reddit.com. |
flair_text | string | null | Psychology | Community flair applied to the post. |
title | string | null | Coca cola commercials before Artificial Intelligence | Post title. |
body | string | null | Here is what I found... | Self-post text. Null for link, image and video posts. |
score | integer | null | 14602 | Net upvotes. Reddit no longer exposes raw up and down counts separately. |
score_hidden | boolean | null | false | Whether Reddit is temporarily hiding the post score. |
upvote_ratio | number | null | 0.98 | Share of votes that were upvotes, between 0 and 1. |
comment_count | integer | null | 89 | Number of comments on the post, independent of how many were collected. |
crossposts | integer | null | 17 | How many times the post was crossposted. |
crosspost_id | string | null | 1vemtx0 | Identifier of the original post when this result is a crosspost. |
crosspost_url | string | null | https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/comments/1vemtx0/example/ | Permanent Reddit URL of the original post when this result is a crosspost. |
archived | boolean | null | false | Whether the post is archived and can no longer be voted on. |
locked | boolean | null | false | Whether commenting is closed. |
stickied | boolean | null | false | Whether the post is pinned in its community. |
over_18 | boolean | null | false | Whether the post is marked as adult content. |
spoiler | boolean | null | false | Whether the post is marked as a spoiler. |
original | boolean | null | false | Whether the poster marked it as original content. |
removed_by | string | null | — | Who removed the post, when it was removed. |
gilded | integer | null | 2 | Number of legacy Reddit gildings recorded for the post. |
categories | array | null | photography | Source-provided content categories when Reddit classifies the post. |
media_type | string | null | image | Reddit's own hint for the attached media: image, link, hosted:video, rich:video or self. |
domain | string | null | i.redd.it | Host of the linked target. Null for text posts, where Reddit writes a self.<community> marker instead of a domain. |
thumbnail | string | null | https://preview.redd.it/example.jpeg | Thumbnail image. Null when Reddit sends a placeholder word instead of a URL. |
images | array | null | https://preview.redd.it/example.jpeg | Full-resolution preview image URLs. |
gallery | array | null | [object Object] | Ordered gallery images with optional captions and outbound links. |
media_url | string | null | https://i.redd.it/example.jpeg | Target the post links to. Null for text posts; a crosspost target is resolved to a full URL. |
video_url | string | null | https://v.redd.it/n0qdgt3tetah1/CMAF_720.mp4?source=fallback | Direct MP4 for a Reddit-hosted video. Media URL points at the video's landing page, which is not playable on its own. Null for posts that are not Reddit-hosted video. |
video_duration | integer | null | 35 | Length of a Reddit-hosted video in seconds. Null for posts that are not Reddit-hosted video. |
video_width | integer | null | 1280 | Width of a Reddit-hosted video in pixels. |
video_height | integer | null | 720 | Height of a Reddit-hosted video in pixels. |
video_bitrate | integer | null | 2400 | Bitrate of a Reddit-hosted video in kilobits per second. |
has_audio | boolean | null | true | Whether the Reddit-hosted video contains an audio track. |
is_gif | boolean | null | false | Whether Reddit exposes the hosted video as a looping GIF-style clip. |
poll | object | null | {"options":[{"id":"1","text":"Yes","vote_count":128}],"total_votes":350,"ends_at | Poll options, disclosed vote counts, total votes, and closing time. |
is_self | boolean | null | false | Whether the post is text rather than a link. |
is_video | boolean | null | false | Whether the post carries Reddit-hosted video. |
is_gallery | boolean | null | — | Whether the post is a multi-image gallery. |
distinguished | string | null | — | Set when a moderator or admin posted in that capacity. |
duplicates | array | null | https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/example/ | URLs of other posts sharing the same link, which is how a viral item spreads across communities. |
comments | array | null | [object Object] | Up to max_comments comments with stable IDs, body, author identity, timestamps, score, hierarchy, moderation flags, and collapse state. Null when comments could not be read; an empty list means none were returned. |
processor | string | null | https://apify.com/username/actor_name | Attribution URL emitted by the shared Actor runtime for this processed record. |
processed_at | string | null | 2025-01-15T10:30:00.000Z | UTC timestamp when this record was processed. |
What it costs
| Charged event | Price | When |
|---|---|---|
| Actor Start | $0.01 | Charged when the Actor starts running. Number of events charged depends on Actor memory (one event per GB, minimum one event). |
| Result | $0.005 – $0.00375 | Single result in the default dataset. |
| Comment | $0.001 – $0.00075 | Single Reddit comment retained in a post result. |
Per 1,000 rows, by Apify plan
| Plan | Per row | 1,000 rows | 10,000 rows |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0.005 | $5.01 | $50.01 |
| Bronze | $0.0045 | $4.51 | $45.01 |
| Silver | $0.004 | $4.01 | $40.01 |
| Gold | $0.00375 | $3.76 | $37.51 |
| Platinum | $0.00375 | $3.76 | $37.51 |
| Diamond | $0.00375 | $3.76 | $37.51 |
Every total includes the $0.01 start fee once. Apify charges that fee per gigabyte of memory, so a 1024 MB run pays it a single time.
When not to use it
- The dataset carries 52 fields and nothing else; if your analysis needs a field that is not in the table above, no input setting will add it.
- It reads what is public at run time. There is no archive behind it, so a question about last quarter has to be answered from data you already collected.
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Field guides that use this data
- A Reddit Research Workflow for Communities, Posts, and Viral Signals — How to structure public Reddit research around subreddits, posts, profiles, dates, source links, sampling limits, and reproducible topic analysis.
- Reddit Research APIs Compared: Community, Posts, People, or Search — Reddit exposes four distinct research surfaces — community profile, post feeds, people, and keyword search. Which one answers which question, with field counts.
- How to Build a Creator Outreach List from Public Data — A repeatable pipeline for influencer and creator outreach: discovering creators by niche, enriching profiles across YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok, and extracting published business contacts responsibly.
Prove it on a narrow run
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Pricing, availability and schema can change between snapshots. The Apify Actor page is the current source of truth.
Catalog snapshot 2026-09-04; Actor contract, pricing and run statistics read 2026-09-04.