Reddit Buyer Intent & Brand Monitor

Find public Reddit posts that show purchase research, vendor comparison, pricing interest, or mentions of your brands and competitors. Results include a transparent 0–100 buyer-intent score, detected signals, matched queries, subreddit, engagement, and source URL.

Input

• queries: product/problem phrases such as looking for project management software.
• brandNames: brands or competitors to monitor; each is also searched when not already in queries.
• subreddits: optional names without r/.
• sort, timeframe, and maxResults control search and cost.
• useScrapeCreatorsFallback: enabled by default. Configure the private Apify secret SCRAPECREATORS_API_KEY to enable fallback when Reddit returns a block, rate limit, or server error.

The Actor uses public data only; no Reddit cookies or login are required. Direct Reddit JSON is attempted first. An authorized public-data fallback route is used only when the direct route returns no usable data.

Output

Each dataset item is one Reddit post. The OUTPUT key-value record contains delivery counts, route telemetry, warnings, and the selected searches. The Actor charges one reddit-result event per delivered dataset item.

Buyer-intent scoring is heuristic, not a purchase guarantee. It rewards active research, commercial language, comparisons/decisions, solution-category terms, and brand mentions.

Example

{
  "queries": ["best CRM for a small business", "looking for CRM recommendations"],
  "brandNames": ["Acme CRM", "Competitor CRM"],
  "subreddits": ["smallbusiness", "SaaS"],
  "timeframe": "month",
  "maxResults": 50
}

Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing. These are the current Apify Store event prices:

Event	Price (USD)	When it is charged
reddit-result	$0.005	Reddit result — One normalized public Reddit post with buyer-intent scoring and brand/query matches.
apify-actor-start	$0.006251 FREE · $0.006094 BRONZE · $0.005938 SILVER · $0.005 GOLD+	Actor Start — Charged when the Actor starts running. Number of events charged depends on Actor memory (one event per GB, minimum one event). — Charged once per run.

Apify platform usage for this Actor run is included alongside the event prices above; no separate per-run platform-usage fee is passed to users.

This covers Apify platform usage for this Actor run. Other Apify products or usage outside this Actor run may still follow your account plan.