Reddit Search Scraper

Search Reddit posts globally or within a specific subreddit.

Use cases

• Topic discovery — find every recent post about your product / topic across Reddit.
• Sub-restricted search — narrow to a community (restrict_sr).
• Crisis monitoring — schedule frequent searches against trending keywords.
• Competitive intel — track mentions of competitors.

Why use this actor?

• Optional subreddit scope — leave blank for global, specify for community-restricted.
• Sort & time filter — 5 sorts × 6 time windows.
• OAuth installed-app support.

Sample output

Input: query: python web scraping, maxResults: 3

[
  {
    "_input": "python web scraping",
    "_source": "S1-oauth-api",
    "_scrapedAt": "2026-05-13T...",
    "id": "t3_xyz789",
    "subreddit": "learnpython",
    "title": "Best libraries for web scraping in 2026?",
    "author": "newdev99",
    "score": 342,
    "num_comments": 67,
    "created_utc": 1778000000
  }
]

Note

• Global search has wider but noisier results; restrict to a sub for higher signal.
• Reddit's relevance sort changes opaquely; for reproducibility prefer new or top.