How to scrape www.reddit.com

Measured results

Success rate

88.1% (3,940 requests, last 30 days)

Protection detected

cloudflare_turnstile

Typical tier

4

Median latency

15,804 ms

Output formats that work

html, text, markdown, json

cURL

curl -X POST https://alterlab.io/api/v1/scrape \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url": "https://www.reddit.com/"}'

Python

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://alterlab.io/api/v1/scrape",
    headers={"X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    json={"url": "https://www.reddit.com/"},
)
print(response.json()["content"][:500])

Node

const res = await fetch("https://alterlab.io/api/v1/scrape", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY", "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({ url: "https://www.reddit.com/" }),
});
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data.content.slice(0, 500));

MCP

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "alterlab": { "url": "https://mcp.alterlab.io/mcp" }
  }
}
// then ask your agent: "scrape https://www.reddit.com/ with AlterLab"

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