You can access the Reddit Pain Point Miner programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9    "records": [{
10            "id": "rd-demo-001",
11            "subreddit": "smallbusiness",
12            "title": "Looking for an affordable review-monitoring tool",
13            "body": "Need a simple alternative to enterprise tools for five locations.",
14            "score": 184,
15            "upvoteRatio": 0.96,
16            "numComments": 73,
17            "observedAt": "2026-08-02T10:00:00Z",
18            "productWorkflow": "reddit-pain-point-miner",
19        }],
20    "previousRecords": [{
21            "id": "rd-demo-001",
22            "subreddit": "smallbusiness",
23            "title": "Review monitoring options?",
24            "body": "Comparing tools.",
25            "score": 24,
26            "upvoteRatio": 0.82,
27            "numComments": 9,
28            "observedAt": "2026-08-01T10:00:00Z",
29            "productWorkflow": "reddit-pain-point-miner",
30        }],
31}
32
33# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
34run = client.actor("night111/reddit-pain-point-miner").call(run_input=run_input)
35
36# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
37print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
38for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
39    print(item)
40
41# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Reddit Pain Point Miner API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Reddit Pain Point Miner API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

Reddit Pain Point Miner API in JavaScript

Reddit Pain Point Miner API through CLI

Reddit Pain Point Miner OpenAPI definition

Reddit Pain Point Miner API

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