Best Reddit Scrapers on Apify in 2026: An Honest Comparison

Reddit has a public JSON API. Most people don't know that. You can append .json to almost any Reddit URL and get structured data back. No auth needed for public subreddits. So why would you use a scraper? Because Reddit rate-limits aggressively, pagination is a pain, and if you need data at scale — across multiple subreddits, over time, with search — you'll spend more time fighting Reddit's API quirks than actually using the data. That's where Apify actors come in. There are several Reddit scrapers on the platform, each with different tradeoffs. I tested them all. Here's what I found. The Contenders Actor Users Approach Free Tier Best For trudax/reddit-scraper 11,549 Browser-based No Full-featured scraping trudax/reddit-scraper-lite 16,061 Lightweight Yes Getting started, basic needs harshmaur/reddit-scraper-pro 1,638 Feature-rich No Advanced filtering fatihtahta/reddit-scraper-search-fast 1,914 Speed-optimized No Large volume, fast cryptosignals/reddit-scraper 33 runs JSON API Yes Cle