# Reddit Lead Finder — AI Buying Intent Scraper (`reverend_bluebell/reddit-lead-ai-finder`) Actor

Scan Reddit for buying signals and pain points. AI scores every post as a lead, surfaces outreach angles, and filters noise automatically.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/reverend\_bluebell/reddit-lead-ai-finder.md
- **Developed by:** [Mozi Mohidien](https://apify.com/reverend_bluebell) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Marketing, Social media
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 0 monthly users, 0.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 ai-enriched leads

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
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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 Lead AI Finder

Monitor any subreddit for buying signals using Claude AI. Give it a subreddit and keywords — it returns scored, enriched leads with pain points, intent classification, and outreach angles.

Built for sales teams, founders doing outbound, and growth marketers who want to find prospects before competitors do.

### What it does

1. Searches Reddit via the official OAuth2 API for posts matching your keywords
2. Fetches full post content and top comments
3. Sends each post to Claude Haiku for lead scoring
4. Returns structured data ready for your CRM or outreach workflow

### Prerequisites

You need a free Reddit API app (script type) to use this actor.

**Create one in 60 seconds:**

1. Go to reddit.com/prefs/apps
2. Click "create another app"
3. Choose "script" type
4. Fill in name and redirect URI (use http://localhost)
5. Copy the client ID (under the app name) and client secret

### Example use cases

- SaaS tool monitoring r/entrepreneur for "looking for project management tool"
- Agency monitoring r/smallbusiness for "need help with marketing"
- Software vendor watching r/startups for "recommend a CRM"

### Input

```json
{
  "subreddit": "entrepreneur",
  "keywords": ["recommend tool", "looking for software", "any suggestions"],
  "anthropicApiKey": "sk-ant-...",
  "redditClientId": "your-reddit-client-id",
  "redditClientSecret": "your-reddit-client-secret",
  "maxPosts": 10,
  "sortBy": "relevance"
}
```

| Field | Type | Required | Default | Notes |
|-------|------|----------|---------|-------|
| subreddit | string | yes | — | Without r/ prefix |
| keywords | string\[] | yes | — | Combined with OR in search |
| anthropicApiKey | string | yes | — | Your Anthropic API key |
| redditClientId | string | yes | — | From reddit.com/prefs/apps |
| redditClientSecret | string | yes | — | From reddit.com/prefs/apps |
| maxPosts | integer | no | 10 | Max 50 |
| sortBy | string | no | relevance | new / hot / top / relevance |

### Output

| Field | Description |
|-------|-------------|
| postId | Reddit post ID |
| subreddit | Subreddit name |
| title | Post title |
| url | Full Reddit URL |
| author | Username |
| score | Upvotes |
| numComments | Comment count |
| created | ISO timestamp |
| selftext | Post body (first 800 chars) |
| topComment | First top-level comment (first 300 chars) |
| enrichment.leadScore | 1-10 (10 = strong buying intent) |
| enrichment.intent | Awareness / Consideration / Decision / Complaint / Question / Other |
| enrichment.painPoint | One sentence: what problem they're expressing |
| enrichment.suggestedProduct | Category of product/service that would solve it |
| enrichment.outreachApproach | How a vendor should engage |
| enrichment.urgency | Low / Medium / High |
| enrichment.budgetSignal | Budget clues mentioned (null if none) |
| enrichment.decisionMaker | Buyer / User / Unknown |

### Notes

- Uses Reddit's official OAuth2 API — reliable, no rate limit surprises
- Reddit API is free for read-only use under their terms
- Requires an Anthropic API key (Claude Haiku, cost ~$0.001 per post)

# Actor input Schema

## `subreddit` (type: `string`):

Subreddit name without r/ prefix (e.g. entrepreneur)

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Search terms to find relevant posts

## `anthropicApiKey` (type: `string`):

Your Anthropic API key for Claude AI enrichment

## `maxPosts` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of posts to process (max 50)

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

How to sort Reddit search results

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxPosts": 10,
  "sortBy": "relevance"
}
```

# 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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("reverend_bluebell/reddit-lead-ai-finder").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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("reverend_bluebell/reddit-lead-ai-finder").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 reverend_bluebell/reddit-lead-ai-finder --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=reverend_bluebell/reddit-lead-ai-finder",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/tBSsgP7zNktGiVn9E/builds/aDSXDKXrZZfLSqy6m/openapi.json