Reddit Popular Posts Scraper - Track Rising, Best, Top & Country Feeds

Overview

The Reddit Popular Posts Scraper pulls trending posts from Reddit’s discovery feeds — Popular, Rising, Best, Top, or country-specific Popular — and returns structured JSON for each post. No subreddit list required: use it to monitor what is going viral across the platform right now.

Ideal for trend analysts, social listening teams, newsrooms, and marketers who need a reliable pulse on Reddit’s homepage-scale attention. Configure feed type, optional country code, and result limits to match your monitoring cadence.

Every item is returned as clean, structured JSON with title, author, subreddit, score, comment counts, timestamps, and URLs.

Features

• Feed modes: popular, rising, best, top, country
• Country filter (e.g. US, GB, IN) when feed is country
• Configurable maxResults (1–500)
• Structured post summaries ready for dashboards
• Automatic pagination until the limit is reached
• Error rows for recoverable feed failures
• Fast, API-backed collection without browsers

Use Cases

• Trend monitoring — Spot breakout topics early via Rising / Popular
• Content research — Find high-engagement posts for inspiration
• Brand monitoring — Catch brand mentions hitting mainstream feeds
• Market research — See which products and niches surface globally
• Business intelligence — Feed daily trending snapshots into BI tools
• AI training datasets — Sample high-visibility Reddit posts
• Data analytics — Compare score/comment distributions by feed type
• Competitor analysis — Track when competitor stories go viral

Input

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
feed	string	No	"popular"	Feed to scrape: popular, rising, best, top, or country.
country	string	Conditional	"US"	ISO-style country code used when feed is country (e.g. US, GB, IN).
maxResults	integer	No	50	Maximum posts to collect (1–500).

How parameters affect the run: Switching feed changes the ranking algorithm and content mix. For country, country scopes Popular to that geo. maxResults stops pagination once enough posts are collected.

Example input

{
  "feed": "rising",
  "maxResults": 75
}

Country feed example:

{
  "feed": "country",
  "country": "GB",
  "maxResults": 50
}

Output

Each row is a post summary:

Field	Type	Description
feed	string	Feed mode used
country	string | null	Country when applicable
id	string | null	Post ID
name	string | null	Fullname
kind	string | null	Reddit kind
title	string | null	Post title
author	string | null	Author
subreddit	string | null	Subreddit
score	number | null	Score
numComments	number | null	Comment count
createdUtc	number | string | null	Created time
permalink	string | null	Permalink
url	string | null	External or post URL
body	string | null	Selftext excerpt when present

Example Output

{
  "feed": "rising",
  "country": null,
  "id": "1gh7890",
  "name": "t3_1gh7890",
  "kind": "t3",
  "title": "Local bakery goes viral after inventing croissant-donut hybrid",
  "author": "foodie_nyc",
  "subreddit": "mildlyinteresting",
  "score": 9204,
  "numComments": 612,
  "createdUtc": 1718222400,
  "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/1gh7890/local_bakery_goes_viral/",
  "url": "https://i.redd.it/croissant-donut.jpg",
  "body": null
}

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