Reddit Comments Exporter

Download every comment in any public Reddit thread — with upvotes, awards, nested replies, and timestamps — to Excel, CSV, or JSON.

Common workflows

Market research — pull threads where users discuss your product or category, run sentiment analysis on the body text.
Customer pain mining — bulk-export "what frustrates you about X" threads to surface recurring complaints.
Brand reputation — monitor and archive threads mentioning your brand across relevant subreddits.
Feature voting — when users brainstorm features in r/yourproduct, export and rank by score.
Academic research — bulk-export discussion threads for discourse analysis or NLP datasets.
Crisis monitoring — when a viral thread mentions your brand, export it to your customer-success tool in minutes.

Old reddit, new reddit, and Reddit Mobile

The exporter accepts URLs from any of old.reddit.com, www.reddit.com, reddit.com, i.reddit.com, m.reddit.com, and the redirected redd.it short links. Internally we always read via the public JSON API endpoint, so the source UI you copied from doesn't change anything.

Comments removed by mods or auto-mod

Reddit doesn't expose the original body of comments removed by moderators or AutoModerator. Those rows show [removed] as the body — you keep the author and timestamp metadata for analysis. [deleted] rows are user-deleted comments, similarly anonymised.

Plan limits

Per-thread size scales with your plan. Free (no signup): up to 100 results per thread. Personal: 5,000. Premium: 50,000. Business: 250,000 — see pricing for the full feature comparison and API tiers for the API-specific limits.

FAQ

Reddit Comments Exporter — FAQ

Is the Reddit comments exporter free?

The free tier (no signup) returns up to 100 comments per thread. Larger comments and CSV/JSON require a paid plan: Personal 5,000, Premium 50,000, Business 250,000. See pricing.

Does the export include the full reply tree?

Yes — every comment row has a parent_id and depth column so you can reconstruct the nested tree. Top-level comments have depth=0.

Are deleted/removed comments included?

Yes, with the body replaced by [deleted] (user-deleted) or [removed] (mod / auto-mod removed). You keep author and timestamp metadata for analysis.

Is Reddit's edited timestamp included?

Yes — edited_at_utc. Empty for un-edited comments.

Can I export from a private subreddit?

No. The exporter reads only public subreddits. Private subreddits aren't accessible without authentication.

Will Reddit notice that I exported?

No. We use Reddit's public JSON API the same way third-party clients do — nothing is logged on the OP's side.

Does it work for very long AskReddit threads?

Yes. Large threads (10k+ comments) take a few minutes because Reddit paginates the comment tree and we have to walk every "load more" stub.

Can I export multiple threads at once?

Yes — bulk URL upload on a paid plan processes each URL as a separate export and bundles the resulting files in one ZIP (one file per threads).

Is there an API?

Yes — the same pipeline is exposed as a JSON-over-HTTP API on Premium and Business plans.