extractor.reddit.comments needs to be set to 1 instead of 0 to ignore comments

[kattjevfel]

From the documentation:

The value 0 ignores all comments and significantly reduces the time required when scanning a subreddit.

This took me way too long to figure out (I blame that it's past midnight), but with it set to 0 it will just download all comments as if I had not set it.
Setting it to 1 has the desired effect (only getting the actual post)

[mikf]

This is one of the occasions were the value-type really matters. It needs to be the number 0 (or anything that evaluates to False in Python) and not the string "0". But you are right, the documentation on that one is inconsistent. Thanks for pointing that out.

[kattjevfel]

Even with 803d8f8 the behavior stays unchanged for me, doesn't matter if I set it to "comments": "0", or "comments": 0,, it just downloads all comments.

Setting it to "comments": "1", or "comments": 1, works for me, but someone else might run into the same headache in the future.

[kattjevfel]

It seems to be working when downloading from a page (like saved posts), but when doing a post directly it just downloads all images.

You can test it yourself with https://www.reddit.com/r/Animemes/comments/d9ie4r/weebs_hmmmmm/

[mikf]

It should now also work for individual submissions and not just entire subreddits or other listings.