Reddit

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Specific target templates listed below are available with Advanced plans.
You can scrape Reddit target with Coreplans as well by providing page URL (it does not support parsing or target specific parameters). Both solutions can be tested in the Playground in Dashboard.
Read more about Coresolution here.

The following targets are available:

Target
`reddit_post`
`reddit_subreddit`
`reddit_user`

Reddit post

This target will return information from a post in a subreddit.

POST https://scraper-api.decodo.com/v2/scrape

Payload type: JSON

Parameter	Type	Required	Description	Example
`target`	string	✅	This target type	`reddit_post`
`url`	string	✅	Reddit post URL	`https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/17jrqc5/serious_next_day_thread_postgame_discussion/`

Reddit subreddit

This target will return information from a given subreddit.

POST https://scraper-api.decodo.com/v2/scrape

Payload type: JSON

Parameter	Type	Required	Description	Example
`target`	string	✅	This target type	`reddit_subreddit`
`url`	string	✅	Reddit subreddit URL. URLs can also include the sorting parameter at the end of the url.	Default sorting: `https://www.reddit.com/r/nba` Sorted by newest: `https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/new`

Parameter

Type

Required

Description

Example

target

string

✅

This target type

reddit_subreddit

url

string

✅

Reddit subreddit URL.

URLs can also include the sorting parameter at the end of the url.

Default sorting:
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba

Sorted by newest:
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/new

Reddit user

This target will return information from a Reddit user's page.

POST https://scraper-api.decodo.com/v2/scrape

Payload type: JSON

Parameter	Type	Required	Description	Example
`target`	string	✅	This target type	`reddit_user`
`url`	string	✅	Reddit user URL	`https://www.reddit.com/user/IWasRightOnce/`
`sort`	string		Sort results using one of Reddit's filters. Valid values: `new`, `top`, `hot`.	`new`

Parameter

Type

Required

Description

Example

target

string

✅

This target type

reddit_user

url

string

✅

Reddit user URL

https://www.reddit.com/user/IWasRightOnce/

sort

string

Sort results using one of Reddit's filters.

Valid values: new, top, hot.

new

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