# Reddit Popular Feed Post Scraper (`saswave/reddit-popular-feed-post-scraper`) Actor $0.8 / 1000 results. 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. Monitoring global trends, viral media, and emerging cultural shifts as they happen. - **URL**: https://apify.com/saswave/reddit-popular-feed-post-scraper.md - **Developed by:** [SASWAVE](https://apify.com/saswave) (community) - **Categories:** Automation, News, Social media - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $0.80 / 1,000 results This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events. Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ### 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 ```json { "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&#39;t just a hobby; it’s a necessity. They are the backpackers and &quot;unauthorized anthropologists&quot; 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 } ```` ### 🛟 SUPPORT Share your runs with the developer team and create issues on error to help us improve actor quality. You might discover edge case we didn't test yet We stay available anytime # Actor input Schema ## `sort` (type: `string`): Select feature when providing users ## `geo_filter` (type: `string`): Find specific syntax from url, from https://www.reddit.com/r/popular/best/?geo\_filter=us\_md Geo Filter is us\_md ## `max_page` (type: `integer`): Maximum page ## Actor input object example ```json { "sort": "top_day", "geo_filter": "global", "max_page": 1 } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `results` (type: `string`): No description # API You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup. ## JavaScript example ```javascript import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; // Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token // Replace the '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = {}; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("saswave/reddit-popular-feed-post-scraper").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); items.forEach((item) => { console.dir(item); }); // 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs ``` ## Python example ```python from apify_client import ApifyClient # Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token # Replace '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = {} # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("saswave/reddit-popular-feed-post-scraper").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{}' | apify call saswave/reddit-popular-feed-post-scraper --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=saswave/reddit-popular-feed-post-scraper", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Reddit Popular Feed Post Scraper", "description": "$0.8 / 1000 results. High-velocity extraction tool designed to capture the \"pulse of the internet.\" It targets Reddit's r/popular feed, retrieving the most trending content across the entire platform in real-time. Monitoring global trends, viral media, and emerging cultural shifts as they happen.", "version": "0.0", "x-build-id": "aYGM4h8JjXVqVr3SG" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/saswave~reddit-popular-feed-post-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-saswave-reddit-popular-feed-post-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/saswave~reddit-popular-feed-post-scraper/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-saswave-reddit-popular-feed-post-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/saswave~reddit-popular-feed-post-scraper/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-saswave-reddit-popular-feed-post-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "sort": { "title": "Posts Sort", "enum": [ "best", "rising", "hot", "new", "top_day", "top_week", "top_month", "top_year", "top_all" ], "type": "string", "description": "Select feature when providing users", "default": "top_day" }, "geo_filter": { "title": "Geo Filter", "type": "string", "description": "Find specific syntax from url, from https://www.reddit.com/r/popular/best/?geo_filter=us_md Geo Filter is us_md", "default": "global" }, "max_page": { "title": "Maximum page", "minimum": 0, "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum page", "default": 1 } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } } ```