Reddit Post Comments Scraper

The Reddit Post Comments Scraper is a Claude skill that pulls the full threaded conversation under any Reddit post into a clean markdown file in seconds. The whole discussion, indented exactly the way it nested. No scrolling.

The Problem

You found a Reddit post that matters. A competitor's launch announcement. A 400-comment argument inside your niche. A complaint thread full of the exact words your ideal customer uses. The post itself is fine... it's the comments underneath where the actual signal lives. The objections. The contested claims. The first-person language you'd never write but they all use.

So you start reading. You expand "load more". You expand it again. You copy a quote into a doc, then another, then a third. You lose track of which comment was replying to which. The thread rolls off the bottom of your screen and you scroll back up looking for that one good reply you saw a minute ago. Twenty minutes in, you've got six quotes and zero structure. By comment eighty you give up. The tab stays open for three days before you finally close it.

This skill ends that loop. Hand Claude the URL and get the whole thread back as a markdown file in seconds.

What this Claude skill does

• Pulls the entire threaded conversation from any public Reddit post — full nesting preserved up to ~10 levels deep.
• Lifts the top 3 comments by score to a quick-triage section so you can spot the meaty replies before scrolling.
• Filters noise with --min-score N: drop any comment below a vote threshold to focus on signal in huge threads.
• Tags OP replies, controversial comments, and [deleted] bodies so you know the shape of the discussion at a glance.
• Records post metadata up front — score, comment count, author, link — so the file is self-contained.

Why it's amazing!

• Read a 400-comment thread in five minutes instead of forty.
• Capture customer language in their actual words — perfect input for offer copy and ICP profiles.
• Free to run by default — no accounts, no costly third party subscriptions.
• Threading preserved as indented bullets, so no reply ever loses its parent.

Who it's for

Anyone doing audience research. But especially founders building an ideal-customer profile, indie hackers scraping a competitor's launch thread, course creators capturing pain-point language, marketers mining first-person quotes for copy, and consultants studying how a niche argues about a topic. Anyone who's ever opened a Reddit thread, scrolled for ten minutes, and closed the tab with nothing to show for it.

How it works

Ask Claude something like:

• "Pull the comments from this Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/abc123/why_i_quit_my_saas/"
• "Scrape this thread but skip anything with a score below 5 — too much noise."

You'll get a markdown file back with the post metadata up top, the top 3 comments by score lifted to a quick-triage section, and the full thread as a nested bullet list:

- u/founder_jane · 42 points · 2h ago
  Half the comments in here are just SEO spam from agencies.
  The real signal is in the long replies.
  - u/op_replying · OP · 18 points · 1h ago
    Agreed. I edited the post to add a note about that.
    - u/skeptic_dave · -3 points · controversial · 45m ago
      I don't buy it.

Post metadata is recorded in the frontmatter so the file is self-contained and easy to audit later.

Pairs well with these other skills

This scraper turns one thread into research-ready text — these skills help you find the threads and mine what you pulled:

• Reddit Subreddit Post Scraper Skill: Find the high-signal posts across a whole subreddit first, then pull the comments on the ones that matter.
• User Feedback Analyzer Skill: Point it at the scraped thread to get themes, sentiment, and a ranked read of the discussion.
• ICP Generator Skill: Feed the first-person language straight into a customer profile built on real words, not guesses.
• Marketing Offer Generator Skill: Turn the pains and objections people voice in the thread into offers that answer them.

FAQ

Does it cost anything to run?

Free by default. No accounts, subscriptions, or paid setup required for the common cases. On rare heavily-throttled threads you may need additional setup, but most pulls just work.

How complete is the thread?

Very. Most threads come back complete. On huge threads (1000+ comments), some lower-vote branches get collapsed into "load more" stubs that aren't expanded — the frontmatter tells you exactly how many comments are hidden behind those.

Does it work on deleted or removed comments?

The structure stays. Reddit keeps deleted comments in the tree with [deleted] or [removed] placeholder bodies. You won't see the original text, but the thread shape (who replied to whom) is preserved.

Can it pull comments from private subreddits?

No. Private subs aren't accessible. Public, quarantined, and unrestricted subs work fine.

Does it follow links to other posts mentioned in the comments?

No. One post per run. If you want the comments under a linked post too, run the skill again on that URL.

How many comments can it handle?

Threads up to ~500 comments come back complete. Bigger threads come back partial — Reddit collapses lower-vote branches into stubs that need separate API calls to expand. Use --min-score N to focus on the high-signal half of huge threads.

Does it save the file somewhere I can find it?

Yes. By default it writes to a markdown, csv or xlsx file at the project root. However you can point it at any folder you want. Filename uses the post ID and slug, so a new scrape never quietly overwrites an old one for a different post.

Safe To Install

Please read before installing. Any skill you copy online is someone else's code running inside your Claude, and a lot of what's out there should give you pause. Most authors who give skills away don't give a second thought to quality or security. Most are vibe-coded slop pushed out untested, and some are the occasional bad actor hiding an exploit in plain sight. (Read about OpenClaws ClawHub security nightmare). Every skill we publish is vetted by a programmer with 20+ years of professional experience and checked line by line for anything that touches your files without reason. With Stim-Pack Studios Claude Skills, you get peace of mind knowing you're installing safe, vetted code, not a stranger's guess.

Add it to your Claude workflow

If you're researching audiences, validating offers, or mining customer language, this one earns its slot. It collapses the read-scroll-copy-paste loop into a single markdown file you can grep.

Get the Reddit Post Comments Scraper Claude skill and turn any Reddit thread into research-ready text in seconds.