Reddit Scraper(for Posts, Comments & Media Data Effortlessly)

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## ⚙️ Advanced Configuration

### Local Testing vs User Execution

- **Local Testing**: Use actor's default settings
- **User Execution**: Use publicly available input form

### Optimizing Your Scraping

1. **Filter by Time** — Reduce unnecessary data volume
2. **Limit Comment Count** — Control extraction scope
3. **Exclude NSFW** — Filter unwanted content
4. **Choose Sort Order** — Get the most relevant data


## 🔍 Frequently Asked Questions

### How fast is the scraping speed?
Speed depends on data volume and network connection. Typically, extracting 100 posts with their comments takes 5-10 minutes.

### How much data can I extract?
There's no hard limit, but we recommend keeping each extraction to under 10,000 rows to ensure performance and stability.

### Can I extract historical data?
Yes. Using time filter parameters, you can extract data from any time range.

### Can I scrape private subreddits?
No. Only publicly available Reddit pages and subreddits can be scraped.