Reddit Trends Scraper 🔍

📋 Overview

Reddit Trends Scraper is a powerful tool that helps you extract trending content and discussions from Reddit. It automatically scrolls through Reddit pages and captures comprehensive data about posts, including engagement metrics, author information, and community details.

✨ Features

• 🔄 Handles dynamic content loading through infinite scrolling
• 📊 Captures detailed post metrics (upvotes, comments)
• 👥 Extracts user and community information
• ⚡ Supports proxy configuration for reliable scraping
• 🎯 Customizable maximum items limit
• 🕒 Includes post timestamp and engagement data
• 🔗 Provides direct links to posts, subreddits, and user profiles

📊 Output Data Structure

The actor extracts the following data for each Reddit post:

• title - Post title
• postUrl - Direct link to the post
• upvotes - Number of upvotes
• comments - Number of comments
• subreddit - Community name
• subredditUrl - Link to the subreddit
• subredditType - Type of post (link, image, text, etc.)
• author - Username of the poster
• authorProfile - Link to author's profile
• postTime - Timestamp of the post

💡 Use Cases

• 📈 Track trending topics and discussions
• 🎯 Monitor specific subreddits for content
• 📊 Analyze engagement patterns
• 🔍 Research community interests
• 📱 Social media monitoring
• 🎨 Content inspiration and curation

💪 Benefits

• Automated data collection from Reddit
• Real-time trend monitoring
• Comprehensive post analytics
• Clean, structured data output
• Reliable performance with proxy support

⚙️ Setup & Usage

1. Set your desired maximum number of items to scrape
2. Configure proxy settings (optional)
3. Run the actor and collect your data

📝 Input Parameters

• maxItems - Maximum number of posts to scrape (default: 100)
• proxyConfiguration - Optional proxy settings for reliable scraping

Output sample

The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can always find in the Storage tab. Here's an excerpt from the data you'd get if you apply the input parameters above:

And here is the same data but in JSON. You can choose in which format to download your data: JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML.

[
    {
        "title": "Democratic Rep. Al Green removed after disrupting Trump's speech",
        "postUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1j3sv5s/democratic_rep_al_green_removed_after_disrupting/",
        "upvotes": 20799,
        "comments": 1270,
        "subreddit": "r/politics",
        "subredditUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/",
        "subredditType": "link",
        "author": "nbcnews",
        "authorProfile": "https://www.reddit.com/user/nbcnews",
        "postTime": "2025-03-05 02:38:36"
    },
    ...
]

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