🔥 Reddit Trends Scraper

Extract trending posts, discover growing subreddits, and track keywords — all from one Actor. Built for content creators, marketers, and data analysts who need structured Reddit data without battling anti-bot protections.

✅ Scrapes old.reddit.com with residential proxies
✅ Cookie-warmed sessions — no blocks
✅ 3 pipelines in parallel: Posts · Subreddits · Keywords

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What You Get

Pipeline	What it does
Trending Posts	Scrapes hot/top/new posts from any subreddits with scores, comments, authors, flairs, and timestamps
Subreddit Discovery	Finds trending communities via r/trendingsubreddits
Keyword Analysis	Counts word-boundary-matched mentions across all scraped titles — no false positives

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
subreddits	string[]	["technology", "Futurology", "artificial"]	Subreddits to scrape (without r/)
keywords	string[]	["AI", "AGI", "breakthrough"]	Keywords to track (whole-word match)
maxPosts	number	50	Posts per subreddit (max 100)
sortBy	hot · top · new	hot	Sort order
includeTrendingSubs	boolean	true	Also fetch trending subreddits
proxyGroup	RESIDENTIAL · none	RESIDENTIAL	Proxy type (keep RESIDENTIAL for Reddit)

Output

Three result types pushed to the same dataset:

1. Post

{
  "subreddit": "technology",
  "title": "OpenAI announces GPT-5",
  "url": "https://reddit.com/r/technology/...",
  "score": 4521,
  "comments_count": 328,
  "author": "techuser123",
  "flair": "AI",
  "timestamp": "2026-07-04T12:30:00+00:00",
  "sort_by": "hot"
}

2. Trending Subreddit

{ "name": "LocalLLaMA", "description": "Subreddit for running LLMs locally" }

3. Keyword Summary

{ "keyword": "AI", "mentions": 6, "top_posts": ["Meta contractors...", "AI backlash..."] }

Who This Is For

• YouTubers / Content Creators — Find what's blowing up on Reddit before it hits mainstream. Fuel your next video script with real trending data.
• Marketers & PR — Track brand mentions, competitor launches, and sentiment shifts across niche communities.
• Startup Founders — Discover pain points, feature requests, and underserved audiences by monitoring relevant subreddits.
• Data Analysts — Export structured JSON for dashboards, sentiment analysis, or trend forecasting.
• Crypto/NFT Traders — Gauge community sentiment and spot emerging narratives early.

Real Output (Live Run, July 2026)

r/technology (hot): 10 posts
  → "AI backlash...data center secretly taking our power and water" — 28,843 score
  → "Meta Paid Contractors to Pretend to Be Teenagers" — 2,377 score

r/Futurology (hot): 10 posts
  → "Germany, France, Spain banning Palantir" — 4,826 score
  → "60% of consumers abandon AI tools after a single mistake" — 782 score

Keyword "AI": 6 mentions across 20 posts
Keyword "AGI": 0 mentions

Technical Notes

• old.reddit.com — No JavaScript rendering overhead. Fast, lightweight HTML scraping.
• Session cookies — Warms up a browser session before scraping to avoid Reddit's anti-bot detection.
• Apify Residential Proxy — Requests appear from real US residential IPs. Reddit can't fingerprint them as data-center traffic.
• No login required — Only scrapes publicly visible data.
• Word-boundary matching — Keyword "AI" catches "AI backlash" but not "MAIL" or "RAIN".
• Parallel execution — All subreddits scraped simultaneously.

Reliability

This Actor has been tested against Reddit's 2026 anti-bot measures and uses a combination of cookie-warming, residential proxies, and conservative rate limiting to deliver consistent results. If Reddit updates its defenses, the Actor will be updated — check the changelog.

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.50 per run + $0.10 per 1,000 results. Platform usage costs are passed to the user. You only pay for what you use.