From f67b99a7b4eedbd484166c3d1d1e7ec1c97d30ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Mike=20F=C3=A4hrmann?= <mike_faehrmann@web.de>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:23:15 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [reddit] fix "KeyError: 'children'" when expanding comments
 (#9037)

---
 gallery_dl/extractor/reddit.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gallery_dl/extractor/reddit.py b/gallery_dl/extractor/reddit.py
index 23f7d43f..4979442d 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/extractor/reddit.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/extractor/reddit.py
@@ -484,7 +484,8 @@ class RedditAPI():
             data = self._call(endpoint, params)["json"]
             for thing in data["data"]["things"]:
                 if thing["kind"] == "more":
-                    children.extend(thing["data"]["children"])
+                    if more := thing["data"].get("children"):
+                        children.extend(more)
                 else:
                     yield thing["data"]