Reddit Search Scraper

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Search Reddit posts globally or within a specific subreddit.

Use cases

• Topic discovery — find every recent post about your product / topic across Reddit.
• Sub-restricted search — narrow to a community (restrict_sr).
• Crisis monitoring — schedule frequent searches against trending keywords.
• Competitive intel — track mentions of competitors.

Why use this actor?

• Optional subreddit scope — leave blank for global, specify for community-restricted.
• Sort & time filter — 5 sorts × 6 time windows.
• OAuth installed-app support.

Sample output

Input: query: python web scraping, maxResults: 3

[
{
"_input":"python web scraping",
"_source":"S1-oauth-api",
"_scrapedAt":"2026-05-13T...",
"id":"t3_xyz789",
"subreddit":"learnpython",
"title":"Best libraries for web scraping in 2026?",
"author":"newdev99",
"score":342,
"num_comments":67,
"created_utc":1778000000
}
]

Note

• Global search has wider but noisier results; restrict to a sub for higher signal.
• Reddit's relevance sort changes opaquely; for reproducibility prefer new or top.