# Scrape.ly, free: Reddit post API

> Extract public Reddit posts and comment threads from searches, subreddits, user profiles, and post URLs: text, scores, timestamps, and media.

Scrape.ly's Reddit post API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 posts. Scrape.ly's docs list all 5 key fields we check: Text, Media, Engagement, Author, Subreddit.
We haven't run Scrape.ly through [our Reddit post API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-reddit-post-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 150 plans for Reddit post APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.04 per 1,000 posts or less.
[Crawlora's $499 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/crawlora/499-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 posts: $0.001. Crawlora charges for each page of results. We count 100 posts on each page to get the $0.001 price.
[Arctic Shift](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/arctic-shift/free/llms.txt), [Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/scrappa/10-pack/llms.txt) and [ScrapeAtlas](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/scrapeatlas/249-pack/llms.txt) are the best Reddit post API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/scrape-ly/free
- [Reddit post API: the 17 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-reddit-post-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scrape.ly/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-post-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.scrape.ly/v2/actors/echofield~reddit-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items`
- API key: with the plan, on https://scrape.ly/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-post-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://scrape.ly/store/echofield/reddit-scraper?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-post-api-pricing
- Sold by: Scrape.ly (https://scrape.ly?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-post-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Text: ✓
- Media: ✓
- Engagement: ✓
- Author: ✓
- Subreddit: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 posts: $0.00
- Per: result
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Start fee: $0.00
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 587 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Extract public Reddit posts and comment threads from searches, subreddits, user profiles, and post URLs: text, scores, timestamps, and media.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You decide what you collect and for what purpose, and you are solely responsible for Your Content, for having all rights, permissions and legal bases, and for complying with the law and with the terms of the sites your runs access. [...] Some Actors find or collect information about people, if you use them you are the controller of the results and must meet your duties to the people concerned. You must not use them to decide a person's eligibility for credit, employment, insurance, housing or benefits, to stalk, harass or expose anyone, or for any other unlawful purpose. [...] If you run Actors that find information about people, you must have a lawful purpose for each run and must not use the results to decide eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, housing or benefits (or for any other purpose that makes them a consumer report under the US Fair Credit Reporting Act or similar law), to stalk, harass, intimidate, dox or locate anyone against their will, for illegal surveillance, to discriminate, or for unsolicited marketing. [...] You must not use the Services to: 1. break any law, or infringe anyone's rights, including copyright, database, trademark and trade-secret rights, 2. create, store or distribute child sexual abuse material, terrorist content or other illegal content, 3. commit or support fraud, phishing, scams, identity theft or money laundering, 4. send spam or unsolicited bulk messages, or create fake accounts, engagement, reviews or traffic, 5. run malware, ransomware, spyware, backdoors or keyloggers, or any code designed to damage or gain unauthorised access to a system, 6. carry out denial-of-service attacks, or scan or test systems you are not authorised to test, 7. mine cryptocurrency, or use our resources for purposes unrelated to the Actors you run, 8. engage in a practice prohibited by Article 5 of the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689), such as manipulative or exploitative techniques, social scoring, or building facial-recognition databases by untargeted scraping of facial images, 9. breach sanctions or export control law, 10. probe, scan, attack or overload our infrastructure, escape the run environment, or access other users' data, runs or accounts, 11. avoid or manipulate billing, usage limits, spending caps or rate limits, including by misusing an Actor's charging mechanism, 12. hold more than one free account per person or organisation, or use fake identities or other methods to obtain free or promotional credit, 13. resell, sublicense or provide access to the Services as a service to third parties, except by running Actors to deliver your own products and services, or with our written consent, 14. manipulate Store rankings, ratings, reviews, usage statistics or bookmarks, or post false reviews or issues, 15. impersonate anyone, or misrepresent your affiliation, or 16. help or encourage anyone else to do any of these things.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $5 a month
- Enough for: about 1,470 results a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 16.67
- Concurrent: 5

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: maxPosts, one of queries, subredditName or urls. Optional: dateFrom, dateTo, commentDateFrom, commentDateTo, includeNsfw, strictSearch, strictTokenFilter, scrapeComments, maxComments, sort, timeframe, subredditKeywords, subredditSort, subredditTimeframe, forceSortNewForTimeFilteredRuns, searchCommunities, maxCommunities, searchUsers, maxUsers, searchComments, maxSearchComments, includeProfiles, proxyConfiguration
- Method: POST
- Path: /v2/actors/echofield~reddit-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 with full legal capacity

## The 25 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, title, author username, score, comment count, subreddit, flair, subreddit subscribers, created at, post URL, permalink, link URL, text, upvote ratio, thumbnail, media, images, media type, is video, is gallery, NSFW, locked, archived, is pinned, spoiler

## Scrape.ly's plans (5)

- [Scrape.ly, free](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/scrape-ly/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Scrape.ly, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/scrape-ly/19-monthly/llms.txt): $3.23 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Scrape.ly, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/scrape-ly/199-monthly/llms.txt): $3.06 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Scrape.ly, $999 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/scrape-ly/999-monthly/llms.txt): $2.89 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Scrape.ly, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/scrape-ly/contact-us/llms.txt): 100% complete, live

## Scrape.ly's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /v2/actors/echofield~reddit-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items`: [Scrape.ly, free](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/scrape-ly/free/llms.txt)

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## Scrape.ly: Reddit post API alternatives

- [Anysite, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/anysite/49-monthly/llms.txt): $1.437 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Bright Data, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/bright-data/top-up/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Zembra, top-up from $12](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/zembra/top-up-from-12/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 20% complete, live
- [Mindcase, top-up from $1,000](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/mindcase/top-up-from-1000/llms.txt): $3.846 per 1,000, 80% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-06.

- https://scrape.ly/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-post-api-pricing
- https://scrape.ly/api/linkedin-profile-api.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-post-api-pricing
- https://scrape.ly/api/reddit-api.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-post-api-pricing
- https://scrape.ly/docs/api-overview.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-post-api-pricing
- https://scrape.ly/legal/acceptable-use.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-post-api-pricing
- https://scrape.ly/legal/terms.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-post-api-pricing
- https://scrape.ly/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-post-api-pricing
- https://scrape.ly/store/echofield/reddit-scraper.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-post-api-pricing