Reddit User Scraper — Profile Export

What this Actor scrapes

This Actor pages through every public Reddit user profile and collects the full submission and comment history for each username you provide. One row per post or comment: kind, ID, subreddit, title, body, URL, permalink, score, comment count, NSFW flag, and ISO-8601 timestamps. Ideal for OSINT timelines, recruiter due-diligence briefs, fraud-pattern detection, and academic user-activity research.

It reads Reddit's user-profile listing endpoints, paginates through all available pages, and writes clean typed rows into your Apify dataset — ready for JSON, CSV, or Excel export straight from the Console.

What we handle for you

• 🛡️ Browser fingerprint rotation — curl-cffi impersonates real Firefox and Safari TLS handshakes so the target sees a browser, not Python. We rotate profiles per session to stay off the block list.
• 🌐 Residential proxy rotation via Apify Proxy — every time we hit a rate-limit wall, we rotate the session and exit IP so the scrape keeps moving.
• 🔁 Retries with exponential backoff — up to 5 attempts per page on 408 / 429 / 5xx, with Retry-After headers honoured to the second.
• 🧱 Rate-limit-aware pacing — when Reddit pushes back, we back off and resume rather than get banned. Partial progress surfaces as a clear status message; we never silently return an empty dataset.
• 🧊 Clean, typed dataset rows — Pydantic-validated fields, ISO-8601 timestamps, stable Reddit fullname IDs, and direct JSON / CSV / Excel export.
• 💰 Pay-Per-Event pricing — you only pay for results that hit your dataset. No data, no charge beyond the small warm-up fee.

Use cases

• OSINT investigations — reconstruct a user's complete public Reddit timeline for due-diligence, fraud detection, or digital-methods research.
• Recruiter screening — pull a developer's Reddit history to understand their expertise, community engagement, and communication style before outreach.
• Brand monitoring — track what specific accounts say about your product or space across subreddits.
• Fraud-pattern detection — analyse posting cadence, subreddit distribution, and score trajectories to identify promotional or coordinated accounts.
• Academic research — build labelled user-activity datasets for computational social science studies.
• Content discovery — extract a user's highest-scoring posts for a portfolio or competitive-intelligence brief.

Input

Paste this into the Apify Console, or send it as the run input over the API. Proxy settings are on by default; you rarely need to touch them.

{
  "usernames": [
    "spez"
  ],
  "what": "submitted",
  "sortBy": "new",
  "maxResultsPerUser": 3,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}

Output

One row per result, schema-validated before it is written. Export JSON, CSV, Excel or XML from the run, or read it over the API.

kindidsubreddittitlebodypermalinkscorenum_commentsover_18created_at

{
  "kind": "submission",
  "id": "t3_abc123",
  "username": "spez",
  "subreddit": "AskReddit",
  "title": "What's your favourite movie?",
  "body": null,
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/abc123/",
  "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/abc123/whats_your_favourite_movie",
  "score": 142,
  "num_comments": 1283,
  "over_18": false,
  "created_utc": 1747339200,
  "posted_at": "2026-05-15T20:00:00+00:00",
  "scraped_at": "2026-05-16T08:31:00+00:00"
}

Pricing

You pay only for results that land. Cap any run with maxTotalChargeUsd. See pricing & billing for worked examples.

Limitations

• 1 000-item cap per user per listing — Reddit hides items beyond position ~1 000 in any single listing. If a user has posted thousands of times, you'll receive the most recent 1 000 matching the chosen sortBy and timeFilter. For deeper historical pulls, combine multiple timeFilter passes or use a Pushshift-based Actor (separate product).
• Deleted and suspended accounts — if a username no longer exists or has been suspended, the Actor logs a 404 or 403 and skips that user; remaining usernames in the batch still run.
• Private subreddits — posts made in private subreddits are not visible on public user profiles and will not appear in output.
• NSFW content on restricted proxies — some residential proxy exit IPs are geo-blocked by Reddit's NSFW gates. The Actor captures the NSFW flag but may skip body text if the proxy cannot access adult content.