Reddit Post Scraper
Pull a single Reddit post — title, body, author, score, timestamps, and media — plus its full comment thread, in one call and one consistent JSON schema.
What you're collecting
A single Reddit post has more to it than the title: the body text, author, score, creation time, attached media, and the discussion under it. Scraping just the title or just the top comment misses most of what a post actually contains.
How UGC Scraper handles it
Send any Reddit post URL (or a bare post id) to POST /v1/scrape. One request returns the post and its entire comment thread together — there's no separate comments endpoint to call afterward.
cURL
curl -X POST https://api.ugcscraper.com/v1/scrape \
-H "Authorization: Bearer rps_live_your_key" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/.../comments/..."}'Python
import requests
r = requests.post(
"https://api.ugcscraper.com/v1/scrape",
headers={"Authorization": "Bearer rps_live_your_key"},
json={"url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/.../comments/..."},
)
post = r.json()
print(post["title"], post["score"], post["num_comments"])Output structure
{
"title": "string",
"author": "string",
"created_utc": 1700000000,
"num_comments": 256,
"score": 1500,
"permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/.../comments/...",
"image_url": "https://...jpg | null",
"thumbnail_url": "https://...jpg | null",
"body": "post text",
"comments": [ /* full thread — see the Reddit Comment Scraper page */ ]
}Re-checking a post's score
Scores and comment counts change over time. Rather than re-scraping one post at a time, POST /v1/refresh re-checks current score, comment count, and removed-status for up to 150 posts in a single call, and always bypasses the cache since the whole point is a current number.
Practical use cases
- Archiving — capture a post (and its media links) as a durable, re-fetchable snapshot before it can be deleted.
- Tracking engagement over time — use
/v1/refreshto watch a post's score and comment count move. - Content research — pull a single high-performing post as a reference point before scraping a whole subreddit.
Limitations
A deleted or removed post can't be recovered if it was never scraped first — the API extracts what Reddit currently serves, it doesn't retroactively archive content it never saw. If you've scraped a post before, your prior snapshot remains available in your history regardless of what happens to the post afterward.