Reddit & Hacker News Scraper: Viral Social Trends
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Reddit & Hacker News Scraper: Viral Social Trends
Track trending topics, user sentiment, and high buying-intent discussions across Reddit, HackerNews, GitHub, and Dev.to in real time.
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Social Viral Trend, Reddit, HackerNews, GitHub & Dev.to Pulse Monitor (v2.0)
Monitor 4 major developer & buyer communities (Reddit, HackerNews, GitHub, and Dev.to) simultaneously in a single run to capture viral discussions, open-source launches, customer pain points, and high buying-intent leads.
🔥 Why Growth Teams, Founders & AI Agents Use This Actor
- 4-in-1 Multi-Platform Aggregation: Queries Reddit (
r/...search JSON), HackerNews (Algolia API), GitHub Repositories (api.github.com), and Dev.to Technical Articles concurrently. - Buying & Switching Intent Classifier: Automatically labels posts asking for "alternatives to X", "best tool for Y", "looking for recommendations", or "pricing" as
High Buying / Switching Intentso your sales or community team can reply immediately. - Normalized Virality Score (0–100) & Sentiment: Calculates a unified cross-platform Virality Score (
0–100) and classifies sentiment (Positive,Negative / Pain Point,Neutral).
⚙️ Input Parameters
| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
keywords | array | ["AI agent", "MCP", "web scraping"] | Keywords, brand names, or competitor names to track. |
platforms | array | ["hackernews", "reddit", "github", "devto"] | Platforms to include in the run. |
subreddits | array | [] | Optional subreddits to target on Reddit (e.g. ["SaaS", "LocalLLaMA"]). |
maxItemsPerTopic | integer | 8 | Max items per keyword per platform. |
onlyHighBuyingIntent | boolean | false | Only output posts with High Buying / Switching Intent. |
