I’m constantly digging through Reddit threads for data—sentiment analysis, trend tracking, you name it. The official API feels like a maze, and the rate limits bite hard.
A few weeks ago I discovered a community‑maintained tool on Apify that scrapes comments directly from Reddit’s public JSON endpoint. No API key, no OAuth, just paste the post URL and let it do its thing.
What makes it stand out:
- Pay‑per‑event pricing (≈ $0.001 per comment, $0.01 per post) so you only pay for what you actually get.
- Up to 500 comments per run, with a “max_comments” cap you can set.
- Direct webhook delivery of clean JSON – perfect for piping into a notebook or a small serverless function.
- Built‑in budget limits, so you never get an unexpected overage.
I tried it on a 200‑comment post and the total cost was under $0.25, and the data arrived in my webhook instantly. It’s saved me a lot of time compared to manual crawling or dealing with OAuth tokens.
Has anyone else experimented with this or similar low‑cost scrapers? How does it compare to the more heavyweight solutions you’ve used?
Learn more: https://apify.com/akash9078/reddit-comment-scraper