Reddit Viral Content Tracker
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$25.00/month + usage
Reddit Viral Content Tracker
Find what's going viral across all of Reddit right now. Pulls hot, rising, and new feeds from r/all — deduplicates, ranks by viral score, and flags posts confirmed exploding across multiple feeds. No configuration needed. Just run it.
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Reddit Viral Content Tracker — Find What's Going Viral Right Now
No configuration needed. Just run it and get the top trending posts across all of Reddit, ranked by viral score.
Pulls Reddit's hot, rising, and new feeds from r/all, deduplicates across feeds, and ranks every post by a viral score that weights engagement against age. Posts appearing in multiple feeds are flagged — if something is both hot and rising, it's confirmed exploding.
What It Does
Reddit's r/all is a real-time pulse of the entire internet. This actor fetches the feeds you choose (hot, rising, new), deduplicates posts that appear in multiple feeds, and returns a clean ranked list ordered by viral score. Run it once to see what's blowing up right now. Schedule it to track what goes viral over time.
How Viral Score Works
viralScore = (upvotes + comments × 2) / age^0.8
Engagement (upvotes + weighted comments) divided by post age. Younger posts with high engagement score higher than old posts with the same engagement — because going viral fast matters more than having accumulated votes over days.
sortSources field: A post that appears in both the hot and rising feeds is doubly confirmed viral. The sortSources array shows which feeds each post came from — ["hot", "rising"] means it's trending on both.
Output
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
rank | Position in the viral ranking |
title | Post title |
subreddit | Which subreddit it's from |
score | Reddit upvote score |
upvoteRatio | Ratio of upvotes to total votes |
numComments | Number of comments |
viralScore | Computed viral score (engagement / age) |
sortSources | Which feeds it appeared in: hot, rising, new |
flair | Post flair tag (if set) |
postUrl | Direct link to the post |
author | Reddit username |
createdAt | When it was posted |
Getting Started
- Run with defaults — hot + rising feeds, top 100 results
- Optionally exclude subreddits you don't care about (r/politics, r/worldnews, etc.)
- Schedule hourly or daily to track viral trends over time
Use Cases
Content creators Find what formats, topics, and angles are resonating across Reddit right now. If a post type is going viral, replicate it on your platform.
Social media managers Monitor what's trending before it hits Twitter or TikTok. Reddit often breaks trends 12-24 hours before other platforms.
News aggregators Pull the rising feed to catch stories gaining traction before they peak. Use the hot feed for confirmed breakout stories.
Meme and trend tracking
Filter to entertainment subreddits (or exclude news/politics) to track pure meme virality. The flair field helps categorize content types.
Scheduled monitoring Run hourly and compare rankings over time to see which posts sustain momentum vs. which spike and die.
Input Parameters
| Parameter | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
sortTypes | ["hot", "rising"] | Which r/all feeds to fetch: hot, rising, new |
maxResults | 100 | Max posts in final ranked output |
minScore | 0 | Minimum upvote score filter |
excludedSubreddits | [] | Subreddits to exclude from results |
proxyConfiguration | Residential | Proxy settings |
Related Actors
- Subreddit Trend Finder — trending topics within a specific subreddit, not all of Reddit
- Reddit Mentions Scraper — track specific keywords across Reddit instead of r/all
- Reddit Brand Monitor — scheduled monitoring with delta tracking between runs
Built for content creators, social media managers, news aggregators, and trend chasers who need to know what's exploding on Reddit before everyone else does.
