# Reddit Scraper Lite (Apify via StableApify)

> Reddit Scraper Lite (Apify via StableApify) is a paid API for AI agents from stableapify.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Starts the trudax/reddit-scraper-lite Apify actor to scrape Reddit posts, comments, communities, and users without login, returning a run ID and token for result retrieval.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://stableapify.dev/api/actors/trudax/reddit-scraper-lite/call
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/reddit-scraper-lite-apify-via-stableapify-1596aa96
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_GdIVurR9pxcE8o7GBYZg-

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability reddit-scraper-lite-apify-via-stableapify-1596aa96 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you scrape the Reddit posts and comments from the user 'sarptecimer' — pull up to 100 items and use 256 MB of memory for the run?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to scrape Reddit data (posts, comments, users, communities) without requiring Reddit login credentials. It is ideal for pay-per-result use cases where you want cost-efficient Reddit data collection with configurable item limits. Prefer this over direct Reddit API when you need to bypass rate limits or avoid OAuth setup, and when you want a managed cloud execution environment via Apify.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid actor input parameters causing run failure
- Insufficient memory allocation resulting in out-of-memory errors
- Reddit rate limiting or anti-bot detection blocking scrape
- Payment failure if x402 USDC balance is insufficient
- Run times out before completing the requested item count
- Invalid username or subreddit causing empty results

## How this service works

Start the "Reddit Scraper Lite" Apify actor (trudax/reddit-scraper-lite). Pay Per Result, unlimited Reddit web scraper to crawl posts, comments, communities, and users without login. Limit web scraping by number of posts or items and…

## Output

Returns a JSON object containing the actor run metadata: a unique run ID, current status (e.g. READY), the actor ID, start timestamp, total usage cost in USD, the default dataset ID where results will be stored, and a JWT token used to authenticate subsequent calls to fetch the scraped dataset results.

## Example request

```json
{
 "input": {
  "username": "sarptecimer",
  "includeEmail": false
 },
 "options": {
  "memory": 256,
  "maxItems": 100
 }
}
```

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "skipComments",
    "skipUserPosts",
    "skipCommunity",
    "ignoreStartUrls",
    "searchPosts",
    "searchComments",
    "searchCommunities",
    "searchUsers",
    "sort",
    "includeNSFW",
    "maxItems",
    "maxPostCount",
    "maxComments",
    "maxCommunitiesCount",
    "maxUserCount",
    "scrollTimeout",
    "proxy",
    "debugMode"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "sort": {
     "enum": [
      "",
      "relevance",
      "hot",
      "top",
      "new",
      "rising",
      "comments"
     ],
     "type": "string",
     "default": "new",
     "description": "Sort search by Relevance, Hot, Top, New or Comments"
    },
    "time": {
     "enum": [
      "all",
      "hour",
      "day",
      "week",
      "month",
      "year"
     ],
     "type": "string",
     "description": "Filter posts by last hour, week, day, month or year"
    },
    "proxy": {
     "type": "object",
     "default": {
      "useApifyProxy": true,
      "apifyProxyGroups": [
       "RESIDENTIAL"
      ]
     },
     "properties": {
      "proxyUrls": {
       "type": "array",
       "items": {
        "type": "string"
       }
      },
      "useApifyProxy": {
       "type": "boolean"
      },
      "apifyProxyGroups": {
       "type": "array",
       "items": {
        "type": "string"
       }
      },
      "apifyProxyCountry": {
       "type": "string"
      }
     },
     "description": "Either use Apify proxy, or provide your own proxy servers.",
     "additionalProperties": {}
    },
    "maxItems": {
     "type": "integer",
     "default": 10,
     "maximum": 9007199254740991,
     "minimum": -9007199254740991,
     "description": "The maximum number of items that will be saved in the dataset. If you are scrapping for Communities&Users, remember to consider that each category inside a community is saved as a separated item."
    },
    "searches": {
     "type": "array",
     "items": {
      "type": "string"
     },
     "description": "Here you can provide a search query which will be used to search Reddit`s topics."
    },
    "debugMode": {
     "type": "boolean",
     "default": false,
     "description": "Activate to see detailed logs"
    },
    "startUrls": {
     "type": "array",
     "items": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
       "url"
      ],
      "properties": {
       "url": {
        "type": "string",
        "format": "uri"
       },
      
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```

## More

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