Reddit Lead & Trend Scraper

Find Reddit conversations from public RSS feeds and scrape new posts for lead generation, niche research, brand tracking, and trend discovery.

What You Get

• Reddit post title
• Post URL
• Subreddit
• Author when available
• Published timestamp
• Source query or subreddit
• Relevance score and matched query terms
• Intent score
• Matched intent keywords
• Optional RSS content summary
• Optional change detection change rows

Why This Actor Is Premium

• It uses public Reddit RSS surfaces that are lighter and more reliable than browser scraping.
• It is built for lead and trend change detection, not just generic post export.
• It scores buyer-intent phrases such as need, looking for, recommend, alternative, and hire.
• It filters noisy Reddit search results with query-term relevance scoring.
• It supports keyword searches and subreddit change detection in one run.
• It stores change detection snapshots outside the paid dataset.
• It keeps billing predictable with a strict Max results cap.

Quick Start

1. Add buyer-intent searches such as shopify automation, need wordpress developer, or hubspot alternative.
2. Add subreddits such as shopify, smallbusiness, SaaS, or entrepreneur.
3. Keep Sort set to Newest for change detection.
4. Keep Minimum relevance score at 1 for clean output, or set it to 0 for broad research.
5. Set Minimum intent score to 1 when you want stronger lead-generation output.
6. Set Max results to 100 or higher for stronger lead batches.
7. Turn on change detection when running the Actor on a schedule.

Result Limits And Billing

Max results is a run-level cap, not a guaranteed count.

• The Actor never writes more than Max results.
• The minimum cap is 50 results.
• Users are charged only for rows written to the default dataset.
• Change Detection snapshots and internal notices are stored in a named key-value store.

Change Detection

Change Detection saves a snapshot in reddit-lead-trend-scraper-state.

• First change detection run creates the baseline.
• Later runs detect newly found posts.
• Output only new posts writes only new post events.

Relevance And Intent

Reddit search can be broad. This Actor keeps output cleaner by scoring each search result:

• relevanceScore counts meaningful query terms found in the post title, content, subreddit, or URL.
• matchedQueryTerms shows which query terms matched.
• intentScore counts buyer-intent phrases such as need, looking for, recommend, alternative, and hire.
• matchedIntentKeywords shows which intent terms matched.

For broad trend research, use Minimum relevance score: 0 and Minimum intent score: 0.

For lead generation, use Minimum relevance score: 1 and Minimum intent score: 1.

Pricing Recommendation

Recommended pay-per-event pricing:

• Start event: $0.005
• Reddit post row: $0.003 per row
• Store discounts: down to $0.0015 per row for higher tiers

That positions the Actor around $3 per 1,000 posts before discounts, with very low runtime cost and healthy margin.

Notes

• Reddit RSS availability can vary by subreddit, query, and Reddit rate limits.
• This Actor does not log in to Reddit and does not access private communities.
• Search RSS can include posts from many subreddits; subreddit RSS focuses on one community.