{
"openapi": "3.0.1",
"info": {
"title": "Lemmy Community Scraper",
"description": "Scrape posts and comments from any public Lemmy community on any Lemmy instance — the federated Reddit alternative. We handle the pagination, retries, fingerprint rotation, and rate-limit pacing — you get typed dataset rows ready to export to CSV or JSON.",
"version": "0.2",
"x-build-id": "SRbAdHb0XTzm3Pi56"
},
"servers": [
{
"url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
}
],
"paths": {
"/acts/devilscrapes~lemmy-community-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
"post": {
"operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-devilscrapes-lemmy-community-scraper",
"x-openai-isConsequential": false,
"summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
"tags": [
"Run Actor"
],
"requestBody": {
"required": true,
"content": {
"application/json": {
"schema": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
}
}
}
},
"parameters": [
{
"name": "token",
"in": "query",
"required": true,
"schema": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Enter your Apify token here"
}
],
"responses": {
"200": {
"description": "OK"
}
}
}
},
"/acts/devilscrapes~lemmy-community-scraper/runs": {
"post": {
"operationId": "runs-sync-devilscrapes-lemmy-community-scraper",
"x-openai-isConsequential": false,
"summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
"tags": [
"Run Actor"
],
"requestBody": {
"required": true,
"content": {
"application/json": {
"schema": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
}
}
}
},
"parameters": [
{
"name": "token",
"in": "query",
"required": true,
"schema": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Enter your Apify token here"
}
],
"responses": {
"200": {
"description": "OK",
"content": {
"application/json": {
"schema": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
}
}
}
}
}
}
},
"/acts/devilscrapes~lemmy-community-scraper/run-sync": {
"post": {
"operationId": "run-sync-devilscrapes-lemmy-community-scraper",
"x-openai-isConsequential": false,
"summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
"tags": [
"Run Actor"
],
"requestBody": {
"required": true,
"content": {
"application/json": {
"schema": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
}
}
}
},
"parameters": [
{
"name": "token",
"in": "query",
"required": true,
"schema": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Enter your Apify token here"
}
],
"responses": {
"200": {
"description": "OK"
}
}
}
}
},
"components": {
"schemas": {
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"required": [
"instanceUrl",
"communityName"
],
"properties": {
"instanceUrl": {
"title": "Lemmy instance URL",
"type": "string",
"description": "Base URL of the Lemmy instance to query, e.g. https://lemmy.world or https://lemmy.ml. Trailing slash is stripped."
},
"communityName": {
"title": "Community name",
"minLength": 1,
"maxLength": 255,
"type": "string",
"description": "Community to scrape. Local form (e.g. asklemmy) for communities on the chosen instance, or federated form (e.g. memes@lemmy.world) for remote communities."
},
"sort": {
"title": "Post sort order",
"enum": [
"Active",
"Hot",
"New",
"Old",
"Scaled",
"Controversial",
"MostComments",
"NewComments",
"TopHour",
"TopSixHour",
"TopTwelveHour",
"TopDay",
"TopWeek",
"TopMonth",
"TopYear",
"TopAll"
],
"type": "string",
"description": "Sort token used by Lemmy /post/list. Bare Top is not supported on v0.19 — use a TopHour/TopDay/TopWeek/etc. token instead.",
"default": "Hot"
},
"maxPosts": {
"title": "Max posts",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 5000,
"type": "integer",
"description": "Maximum number of post rows to emit. Pagination stops once this limit is reached.",
"default": 100
},
"includeComments": {
"title": "Include comments",
"type": "boolean",
"description": "If enabled, the Actor also fetches and emits comment rows for each post (row_type=\"comment\").",
"default": false
},
"maxCommentsPerPost": {
"title": "Max comments per post",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 500,
"type": "integer",
"description": "Maximum comment rows emitted per post. Ignored when includeComments is disabled.",
"default": 50
},
"useProxy": {
"title": "Use Apify Proxy",
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Route requests through Apify Proxy (BUYPROXIES94952). Lemmy instances do not block datacenter IPs — leave disabled unless you are behind a restrictive ISP.",
"default": false
}
}
},
"runsResponseSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"data": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"id": {
"type": "string"
},
"actId": {
"type": "string"
},
"userId": {
"type": "string"
},
"startedAt": {
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time",
"example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
},
"finishedAt": {
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time",
"example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
},
"status": {
"type": "string",
"example": "READY"
},
"meta": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"origin": {
"type": "string",
"example": "API"
},
"userAgent": {
"type": "string"
}
}
},
"stats": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"inputBodyLen": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 2000
},
"rebootCount": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"restartCount": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"resurrectCount": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"computeUnits": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
}
}
},
"options": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"build": {
"type": "string",
"example": "latest"
},
"timeoutSecs": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 300
},
"memoryMbytes": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 1024
},
"diskMbytes": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 2048
}
}
},
"buildId": {
"type": "string"
},
"defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
"type": "string"
},
"defaultDatasetId": {
"type": "string"
},
"defaultRequestQueueId": {
"type": "string"
},
"buildNumber": {
"type": "string",
"example": "1.0.0"
},
"containerUrl": {
"type": "string"
},
"usage": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATASET_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATASET_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 1
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"PROXY_SERPS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
}
}
},
"usageTotalUsd": {
"type": "number",
"example": 0.00005
},
"usageUsd": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATASET_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATASET_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
"type": "number",
"example": 0.00005
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"PROXY_SERPS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}