Best Reddit Scrapers in 2026: Honest Comparison (Apify Store)

Reddit holds some of the most valuable unstructured data on the internet. From brand monitoring and competitor research to sentiment analysis and lead generation, Reddit's 100K+ active communities generate millions of posts daily. But scraping Reddit in 2026 is harder than it looks. Reddit aggressively blocks datacenter IPs, rate-limits API access, and serves CAPTCHAs to automated requests. Most scrapers that worked in 2024 are now unreliable. I tested the most popular Reddit scrapers on the Apify Store to find out which ones actually work. Here's what I found. The State of Reddit Scraping The top Reddit scraper on Apify has 15,201 users — but only 2.6 stars . That's a massive red flag. The reviews tell the same story: timeouts, empty results, blocked requests. Why? Most actors use datacenter proxies. Reddit fingerprints these and blocks them. You get a 429 or an empty page, and the actor returns zero results while still consuming your credits. Comparison Table Actor Users Rating Pagin