Forums Search Forum Posts Scraper

Search for forum posts across thousands of forums, discussion boards, Q&A sites, and community boards. Returns post title, URL, source forum, domain, and content snippet. Supports filtering by time period (hour, day, week, month, year) and by country (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code). Paginate through results with the page parameter.

Features

• Real-time Forums data — results are fetched live at run time, never cached or stale
• No login, cookies, or proxy configuration needed — just provide the input and run
• Each result is pushed as a separate dataset item, exportable as JSON, CSV, or Excel
• Fast: a typical run finishes in seconds

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
query	string	yes	Search query (max 500 characters)
page	integer	no	Page number for pagination
time	string	no	Filter by time period One of: any, hour, day, week, month, year.
country	string	no	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (e.g., US, GB, DE)

Pricing

This Actor is billed per run — a flat $0.008 per run.

• One run returns all matching results for your input, and costs $0.008 — whether it comes back with one result or hundreds.
• You’re only charged when a run succeeds. Failed runs are free.

Example output

{
  "count": 10,
  "page": 1,
  "posts": [
    {
      "domain": "reddit.com",
      "position": 1,
      "rank": 1,
      "snippet": "Programming is how everything in tech works. It's a set of instructions given to the computer to run a set of tasks. Let's take Google for ...",
      "source": "Reddit",
      "title": "What is programming? : r/AskProgramming - Reddit",
      "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/AskProgramming/comments/1eo7fez/what_is_programming/"
    },
    {
      "domain": "sololearn.com",
      "position": 2,
      "rank": 2,
      "snippet": "'%' this sign stands for modulo sign. It is use to get carry after devision. Like if you are dividing 10 by 3 then carry will be 1 because 3*3 = 9 and 1 will ...",
      "source": "Sololearn",
      "title": "What does \"%\" mean in programming? - Sololearn",
      "url": "https://www.sololearn.com/en/Discuss/1629466/what-does-mean-in-programming"
    },
    {
      "domain": "forum.freecodecamp.org",
      "position": 3,
      "rank": 3,
      "snippet": "Computer programming is teaching humans to think like a computer and to write instructions in a human-like meta language that can be translated into the 1s and ...",
      "source": "The freeCodeCamp Forum",
      "title": "What is Programming - The freeCodeCamp Forum",
      "url": "https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/what-is-programming/484906"
    },
    {
      "domain": "forums.xfinity.com",
      "position": 4,
      "rank": 4,
      "snippet": "E. W. Scripps cable network programming is currently unavailable as our agreement with E. W. Scripps has expired.",
      "source": "Xfinity Community Forum",
      "title": "E. W. Scripps Programming Agreement Expired",
      "url": "https://forums.xfinity.com/conversations/channels-and-programming/e-w-scripps-progr
  ... (truncated)

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