Reddit Lead Finder & Sentiment Monitor - No Login

Find Reddit posts and comments where people are actively asking for recommendations, comparing products, complaining about competitors, discussing pricing, or looking for alternatives.

This Actor is built for sales teams, founders, marketers, agencies, product teams, and AI agents that need Reddit buyer signals without setting up the Reddit API.

What You Get

• Reddit posts from keyword searches, subreddits, and direct post URLs
• Optional top comments from each thread
• leadScore from 0 to 100 for each post or comment
• Buying-intent labels such as buying_intent, pricing_pain, competitor_alternative, pain_point, urgent, and vendor_research
• Matched intent keywords, pain keywords, brands, and competitors
• Simple sentiment label and score
• Source links back to Reddit
• Clean JSON for CRM enrichment, prospecting workflows, dashboards, alerts, and AI agents

Why This Is Different From a Generic Reddit Scraper

Most Reddit scrapers give you raw posts. This Actor turns public Reddit discussions into a lead and market-research feed.

Use it to find:

• People asking for the best tool in your category
• Users complaining that a competitor is too expensive
• Threads comparing your product with alternatives
• Pain points your sales team can respond to
• Product feedback from communities
• Market research for startup ideas, SaaS categories, AI tools, local services, and agencies

Quick Start

{
  "searchQueries": [
    "best CRM alternative",
    "HubSpot too expensive",
    "recommend project management tool"
  ],
  "subreddits": ["SaaS", "smallbusiness", "Entrepreneur"],
  "targetBrands": ["HubSpot", "Notion"],
  "competitors": ["Salesforce", "Pipedrive", "Monday"],
  "analysisMode": "all",
  "minLeadScore": 25,
  "sort": "new",
  "maxItemsPerSource": 10,
  "maxTotalItems": 40,
  "includeComments": true,
  "maxComments": 3
}

High-Value Search Examples

{
  "searchQueries": [
    "Salesforce alternative",
    "Pipedrive alternative",
    "HubSpot vs Salesforce",
    "switching from HubSpot"
  ],
  "subreddits": ["sales", "CRM", "smallbusiness", "SaaS"],
  "targetBrands": ["HubSpot"],
  "competitors": ["Salesforce", "Pipedrive", "Zoho", "Monday"],
  "analysisMode": "competitor_alternatives",
  "minLeadScore": 30,
  "maxTotalItems": 100,
  "includeComments": true
}

{
  "searchQueries": [
    "best AI tool for marketing",
    "ChatGPT alternative for business",
    "recommend AI writing tool",
    "AI customer support tool"
  ],
  "subreddits": ["ArtificialInteligence", "SaaS", "marketing", "smallbusiness"],
  "targetBrands": ["OpenAI", "ChatGPT", "Claude"],
  "competitors": ["Jasper", "Copy.ai", "Intercom", "Zendesk"],
  "analysisMode": "buying_intent",
  "minLeadScore": 35,
  "maxTotalItems": 100,
  "includeComments": true
}

Input Fields

Field	Type	Default	Description
searchQueries	string[]	sample list	Reddit search phrases
subreddits	string[]	sample list	Subreddit names or URLs
targetBrands	string[]	optional	Brands/products to detect
competitors	string[]	optional	Competitors to flag
analysisMode	string	all	all, buying_intent, complaints, or competitor_alternatives
minLeadScore	integer	25	Only output rows with this score or higher
intentKeywords	string[]	built in	Buying-intent phrases
painKeywords	string[]	built in	Complaint and pain-point phrases
postUrls	string[]	-	Direct Reddit post URLs
sort	string	new	hot, new, top, or rising
time	string	month	Time window for top sorting
maxItemsPerSource	integer	50	Max posts per subreddit/search
maxTotalItems	integer	100	Hard cap across posts and comments
includeComments	boolean	true	Analyze top comments as separate rows
maxComments	integer	5	Top comments per post
dedupe	boolean	true	Deduplicate records across sources
requestDelayMs	integer	700	Delay between Reddit requests
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy	Proxy settings for larger runs

Output

Each dataset item is a Reddit post or comment enriched with lead fields.

{
  "recordType": "post",
  "leadScore": 72,
  "leadLabels": ["buying_intent", "competitor_alternative", "pricing_pain"],
  "sentimentLabel": "negative",
  "sentimentScore": -0.5,
  "matchedIntentKeywords": ["alternative", "anyone use"],
  "matchedPainKeywords": ["too expensive"],
  "matchedBrands": ["HubSpot"],
  "matchedCompetitors": ["Salesforce"],
  "summarySnippet": "Looking for a HubSpot alternative because pricing is getting too expensive...",
  "subreddit": "SaaS",
  "title": "HubSpot alternative for a small SaaS team?",
  "author": "example_user",
  "score": 41,
  "numComments": 18,
  "createdAt": "2026-08-31T14:22:00+00:00",
  "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/..."
}

Use Cases

• Reddit lead generation
• SaaS competitor monitoring
• Social listening for buying intent
• Reddit sentiment monitoring
• Pain-point discovery
• Startup idea validation
• Product positioning research
• CRM, Slack, webhook, and AI-agent workflows

Pricing

Launch pricing: $1.00 / 500 Reddit lead signals.

This is priced higher than a raw scraper because every result includes lead scoring, labels, sentiment, and match fields. The Actor is still lightweight because it uses public Reddit JSON pages instead of browser automation.

Notes

This Actor reads publicly available Reddit pages. Large or repeated runs may be rate-limited by Reddit, so keep request delays moderate and use Apify Proxy when needed. You are responsible for following Reddit's terms and applicable laws.