Paste a public Reddit thread link and your agent gets its comments: text, likes, reply count, date and a link to each comment. Authors are returned as handles. The scraping is hosted, so there is nothing to install and no block to manage.
Ask your agent
Scrape the comments on this Reddit thread and list the questions nobody answered.
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A real run
One call to social.comments (post comments), run through RouterGrowth on October 19, 2026. These are the first rows it returned; fields that name a person are masked.
| text | author | likes | replies |
|---|---|---|---|
| behavioral simulation matters, but not as much as people think, and not everywhere most anti-bot systems don't even look at behavior, It us… | ml*** | 4 | 0 |
| yeah this is exactly what i want to hear about too, feels like 90% of the battle is lost at the fingerprint level before anything else kick… | Pr*** | 3 | 0 |
| I have worked with developers and teams maintaining a handful to thousands of scrapers in production, and maintenance can quickly become a… | ia*** | 2 | 0 |
Five comments from an AMA thread on anti-bot systems in r/WebScrapingInsider: questions on fingerprinting, behaviour checks and scraper maintenance.
Step by step
Use a thread you already know, or find one with social.search on a keyword.
social.comments takes the thread URL and a limit. The platform is read from the link.
Each comment comes with text, author handle, likes, replies, date and its own URL.
Sort by likes to see what most readers agree with, or ask the agent to group the questions.
Price
List prices on Reddit, read from the catalog when this page was built. The exact figure is quoted before every run, and a monthly plan lowers it.
In practice
You describe the job; the agent picks the calls, shows the price and runs them.
Scrape the comments on this Reddit thread and list the questions nobody answered.
Search Reddit for anti-bot scraping, take the thread with the most replies and summarise its comments.
Connect
One MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, or the same call over the CLI and REST with the input above.
claude mcp add --transport http routergrowth https://api.routergrowth.com/mcp
npm install -g routergrowth && routergrowth setup
routergrowth run -c social.comments -i '{"url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/WebScrapingInsider/comments/1wp6d08/how_to_bypass_antibot_systems_when_web_scraping/", "platform": "reddit", "limit": 5}'curl -X POST https://api.routergrowth.com/v1/run \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $ROUTERGROWTH_API_KEY" \
-d '{"capability": "social.comments", "input": {"url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/WebScrapingInsider/comments/1wp6d08/how_to_bypass_antibot_systems_when_web_scraping/", "platform": "reddit", "limit": 5}}'Worth knowing
The limit counts comments returned, so a small limit reads the start of a long thread. Raise it for the full discussion.
Comments carry the Reddit handle only. Do not try to tie it to a person's email or profile.
Locked threads still read; private and quarantined communities do not.
FAQ
It returns comments with their reply counts. Ask for a larger limit to read deeper into the thread.
Yes, one call per thread URL. An agent can loop over a list of links.
No comments returned means the per comment part is not charged; the quote is shown before the call.
No. It reads only.
More on Reddit
Reading this as an agent? This page as markdown: /tools/reddit/comment-scraper.md
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