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Reddit Comments Scraper

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Reddit Comments Scraper

Reddit Comments Scraper

Developed by

Mysterious Shadow

Maintained by Community

Easily extract Reddit comments with customizable depth. Retrieve top-level comments, direct replies, or entire thread hierarchies in flat or nested formats for seamless analysis and research.

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Pricing

$25.00/month + usage

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Monthly users

2

Runs succeeded

>99%

Response time

11 hours

Last modified

2 months ago

You can access the Reddit Comments Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

1# Start Server-Sent Events (SSE) session and keep it running
2curl "https://actors-mcp-server.apify.actor/sse?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>&actors=mysteriousshadow/reddit-comments-scraper"
3
4# Session id example output:
5# event: endpoint
6# data: /message?sessionId=9d820491-38d4-4c7d-bb6a-3b7dc542f1fa

Using Reddit Comments Scraper via Model Context Protocol (MCP) server

MCP server lets you use Reddit Comments Scraper within your AI workflows. Send API requests to trigger actions and receive real-time results. Take the received sessionId and use it to communicate with the MCP server. The message starts the Reddit Comments Scraper Actor with the provided input.

1curl -X POST "https://actors-mcp-server.apify.actor/message?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>&session_id=<SESSION_ID>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
2  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
3  "id": 1,
4  "method": "tools/call",
5  "params": {
6    "arguments": {
7      "reddit_post_url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1gx3tj4/theupgrade/",
8      "comment_layers": [],
9      "timeout": 30
10},
11    "name": "mysteriousshadow/reddit-comments-scraper"
12  }
13}'

The response should be: Accepted. You should received response via SSE (JSON) as:

1event: message
2data: {
3  "result": {
4    "content": [
5      {
6        "type": "text",
7        "text": "ACTOR_RESPONSE"
8      }
9    ]
10  }
11}

Configure local MCP Server via standard input/output for Reddit Comments Scraper

You can connect to the MCP Server using clients like ClaudeDesktop and LibreChat or build your own. The server can run both locally and remotely, giving you full flexibility. Set up the server in the client configuration as follows:

1{
2  "mcpServers": {
3    "actors-mcp-server": {
4      "command": "npx",
5      "args": [
6        "-y",
7        "@apify/actors-mcp-server",
8        "--actors",
9        "mysteriousshadow/reddit-comments-scraper"
10      ],
11      "env": {
12        "APIFY_TOKEN": "<YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
13      }
14    }
15  }
16}

You can further access the MCP client through the Tester MCP Client, a chat user interface to interact with the server.

To get started, check out the documentation and example clients. If you are interested in learning more about our MCP server, check out our blog post.

Pricing

Pricing model

Rental 

To use this Actor, you have to pay a monthly rental fee to the developer. The rent is subtracted from your prepaid usage every month after the free trial period. You also pay for the Apify platform usage.

Free trial

3 days

Price

$25.00