Reddit Popular Feed Post Scraper

Reddit Popular Feed Post Scraper

High-velocity extraction tool designed to capture the "pulse of the internet."

It targets Reddit's r/popular feed, retrieving the most trending content across the entire platform in real-time.

This is the ultimate tool for monitoring global trends, viral media, and emerging cultural shifts as they happen.

FEATURES

Global Trend Monitoring: Scrape the "Popular" feed to see what the entire Reddit community is interacting with, regardless of subreddit subscriptions.

Viral Content Detection: Capture posts with the highest engagement velocity, including upvote_ratio, ups, and num_comments.

Cross-Niche Insight: Extract data from a diverse range of subreddits (from r/AstrologyDiscovery to r/Technology) in a single run.

Rich Text & Link Extraction: Pulls full selftext_html and embedded URLs, allowing you to track where traffic is being directed from viral posts.

Multimedia Intelligence: Identifies post domains and content types, distinguishing between original discussions, external news links, and hosted media.

User Authority Tracking: Capture author_premium status and flair data to see if viral content is driven by power users or new accounts.

USE CASES

Viral Marketing & Growth Hacking: Identify the specific hooks, titles, and content formats that are currently reaching Reddit's front page to replicate success.

News & PR Monitoring: Track how a breaking news story or brand mention is spreading across the general public in real-time.

Market Sentiment: Use the popular feed to gauge the general public's reaction to global events, stock market shifts, or product launches.

Content Curation: Build a "Best of Reddit" dashboard or newsletter by automatically aggregating the top-performing posts of the day.

Cultural Research: Analyze the "unauthorized anthropology" of the internet—tracking which topics (like travel, astrology, or tech) are gaining sudden traction.

OUTPUT

Post

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  "approved_at_utc": null,
  "subreddit": "AstrologyDiscovery",
  "selftext": "* To a Sagittarius, travel isn't just a hobby; it’s a necessity. They are the backpackers and \"unauthorized anthropologists\" of the zodiac\n\n Check - [Future](http://Ofcourseme.com/top-20-astrology-yogas) ",
  "author_fullname": "t2_2zkz6mxr",
  "saved": false,
  "mod_reason_title": null,
  "gilded": 0,
  "clicked": false,
  "title": "To a Sagittarius, travel isn't just a hobby; it’s a necessity. They are the backpackers and \"unauthorized anthropologists\" of the zodiac",
  "link_flair_richtext": [],
  "subreddit_name_prefixed": "r/AstrologyDiscovery",
  "hidden": false,
  "pwls": 6,
  "link_flair_css_class": null,
  "downs": 0,
  "thumbnail_height": null,
  "top_awarded_type": null,
  "hide_score": true,
  "name": "t3_1t0tt4q",
  "quarantine": false,
  "link_flair_text_color": "dark",
  "upvote_ratio": 1.0,
  "author_flair_background_color": null,
  "subreddit_type": "public",
  "ups": 1,
  "total_awards_received": 0,
  "media_embed": {},
  "thumbnail_width": null,
  "author_flair_template_id": null,
  "is_original_content": false,
  "user_reports": [],
  "secure_media": null,
  "is_reddit_media_domain": false,
  "is_meta": false,
  "category": null,
  "secure_media_embed": {},
  "link_flair_text": null,
  "can_mod_post": false,
  "score": 1,
  "approved_by": null,
  "is_created_from_ads_ui": false,
  "author_premium": false,
  "thumbnail": "self",
  "edited": false,
  "author_flair_css_class": null,
  "author_flair_richtext": [],
  "gildings": {},
  "content_categories": null,
  "is_self": true,
  "mod_note": null,
  "created": 1777642949.0,
  "link_flair_type": "text",
  "wls": 6,
  "removed_by_category": null,
  "banned_by": null,
  "author_flair_type": "text",
  "domain": "self.AstrologyDiscovery",
  "allow_live_comments": false,
  "selftext_html": "<!-- SC_OFF --><div class=\"md\"><ul>\n<li><p>To a Sagittarius, travel isn't just a hobby; it’s a necessity. They are the backpackers and "unauthorized anthropologists" of the zodiac</p>\n\n<p>Check - <a href=\"http://Ofcourseme.com/top-20-astrology-yogas\">Future</a> </p></li>\n</ul>\n</div><!-- SC_ON -->",
  "likes": null,
  "suggested_sort": null,
  "banned_at_utc": null,
  "view_count": null,
  "archived": false,
  "no_follow": false,
  "is_crosspostable": false,
  "pinned": false,
  "over_18": false,
  "all_awardings": [],
  "awarders": [],
  "media_only": false,
  "can_gild": false,
  "spoiler": false,
  "locked": false,
  "author_flair_text": null,
  "treatment_tags": [],
  "visited": false,
  "removed_by": null,
  "num_reports": null,
  "distinguished": null,
  "subreddit_id": "t5_f0j8c4",
  "author_is_blocked": false,
  "mod_reason_by": null,
  "removal_reason": null,
  "link_flair_background_color": "",
  "id": "1t0tt4q",
  "is_robot_indexable": true,
  "report_reasons": null,
  "author": "poojaamazingmy",
  "discussion_type": null,
  "num_comments": 0,
  "send_replies": true,
  "contest_mode": false,
  "mod_reports": [],
  "author_patreon_flair": false,
  "author_flair_text_color": null,
  "permalink": "/r/AstrologyDiscovery/comments/1t0tt4q/to_a_sagittarius_travel_isnt_just_a_hobby_its_a/",
  "stickied": false,
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/AstrologyDiscovery/comments/1t0tt4q/to_a_sagittarius_travel_isnt_just_a_hobby_its_a/",
  "subreddit_subscribers": 6728,
  "created_utc": 1777642949.0,
  "num_crossposts": 0,
  "media": null,
  "is_video": false
}

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