Reddit Scraper

Scrape Reddit utilising Smartproxy's Web Scraping API

Dependencies

BeautifulSoup

Authentication

Once you have an active Web Scraping API subscription, you can try sending a request right from the dashboard Web Scraping API > API playground method tab simply by clicking on Send Request. You will also see an example of curl request generated on the right.

This Pyhton code example uses Base64 encoded user:pass authentication.

Parser type	Example location	Download
HTML to JSON	reddit_python_scraper.py	curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Smartproxy/reddit-python-scraper/blob/main/reddit_python_scraper.py > reddit_python_scraper.py

HTML to JSON

This Python script extracts Subreddit details, post data and comments straight from the HTML of Reddit post page and saves them to a JSON file.