Find what Reddit is saying about your brand, product, competitors or topic. Collect posts and comments by keyword, subreddit or user - title, text, author, subreddit, links, images and dates - as a clean dataset. Schedule it and get only new mentions, straight to Slack, e-mail or a spreadsheet. No Reddit account or API keys needed.
Built for marketers and brand managers, PR and community teams, founders listening for feedback and leads, and researchers tracking discussions.
Why this scraper
- Made for monitoring. Turn on Only new posts and comments, schedule it hourly or daily, and each run delivers just the mentions you haven't seen - you pay only for those.
- Search, subreddits and users in one run. Search all of Reddit for your keywords, search within chosen subreddits, follow subreddits' latest posts, or a user's submissions.
- Spots buying intent. Every post and comment is tagged when someone asks for a tool, looks for an alternative, compares options or complains. Add Competitors to search for people leaving them, and tick Only buying-intent posts to keep just those - or use the Reddit Lead Finder.
- Comments too. Optionally collect each post's comments, each linked to its post.
- Less noise. Require or exclude words, skip bots and your own accounts, set a start date, and choose text discussions or link posts - filtered-out items are free.
- Fast and cheap to run. Runs finish in seconds; 100 posts take a couple of seconds.
- Handles Reddit's limits for you. Reddit limits how fast data can be read. The Actor paces itself and keeps runs fast with the (default) Apify proxy.
- Never loses or double-bills work. Results are saved as each source finishes; if a run is moved to another server it resumes without charging twice, and it stops cleanly at your maximum charge.
How to use it
- Add Keywords (e.g. your brand name), and/or Subreddits and Users.
- Choose Sort by and Time range; tick Include comments if you want them. Use the Filters to require or exclude words, skip authors like AutoModerator, set a start date, or keep only text or link posts.
- Keep the Apify proxy on for speed, and press Start.
Example input
{
"keywords": ["\"your brand\"", "competitor name"],
"subreddits": ["startups", "SaaS"],
"sort": "new",
"time": "week",
"includeComments": true,
"onlyNew": true,
"proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}Mention alerts on a schedule
Turn on Only new posts and comments and schedule the Actor. Each run returns only new items - connect Slack, e-mail, Google Sheets, Zapier or Make to get alerts where your team works.
Use it as an instant API
The Actor also runs in Standby mode - an always-ready endpoint that returns results straight in the response. Find the URL on the Standby tab:
curl "https://<standby-url>/?q=apify&maxItems=20" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>"
Pricing
Pay per result: about $1 per 1,000 posts or comments (lower on higher Apify plans) plus a tiny start fee; duplicates and already-delivered items are free. See the Pricing tab, and set a maximum charge per run to cap spend.
On Apify's free plan each run returns up to 300 results - enough to try everything. Any paid Apify plan removes the limit.