# Reddit Scraper (`botflowtech/reddit-scraper`) Actor

Reddit Scraper

- **URL**: https://apify.com/botflowtech/reddit-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [BotFlowTech](https://apify.com/botflowtech) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media
- **Stats:** 3 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **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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- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

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 Personal Loan Lead Scraper

This actor searches specified Reddit subreddits for **personal-loan** related posts, normalizes them into a unified lead format, and can optionally filter them using a built-in heuristic (LLM-style scoring).

### What it does

- Iterates over `subreddit × keyword` combinations.
- Scrapes posts for each combination (you plug in Reddit API / Apify actor / HTTP logic in `scrapeReddit`).
- Normalizes posts to a common schema:
  - `platform`, `title`, `body`, `author`, `url`, `keyword`, `context` (subreddit), `createdAt`, `upvotes`, `numComments`.
- Optionally runs a simple LLM-like filter to keep only posts that look like genuine loan seekers.

> Note: The current `scrapeReddit` function is a stub returning an empty array. Replace it with Reddit API calls or `Actor.call()` to a store Reddit scraper actor before using in production.

### Input

Configured via `INPUT_SCHEMA.json`:

- `redditSubreddits` (array, required)\
  Subreddits to search, e.g. `["hyderabad", "personalfinanceindia"]`.

- `redditKeywords` (array, required)\
  Loan-related keywords, e.g. `["personal loan hyderabad", "need loan hyderabad"]`.

- `maxResultsPerSource` (integer)\
  Max posts to fetch per subreddit × keyword combination.

- `enableLlmFiltering` (boolean)\
  When `true`, only items classified as Hot/Warm loan leads by the heuristic `callLeadLlm` are kept.

You can edit these inputs in the Apify Console actor input form or via the API.

### Output

Each dataset item looks like:

````json
{
  "platform": "Reddit",
  "title": "Need a personal loan in Hyderabad",
  "body": "I am looking for a 3L personal loan...",
  "author": "some_user",
  "url": "https://reddit.com/r/hyderabad/...",
  "keyword": "personal loan hyderabad",
  "context": "hyderabad",
  "createdAt": "2026-03-18T10:00:00.000Z",
  "upvotes": 12,
  "numComments": 5,
  "llmVerdict": {
    "is_genuine_loan_seeker": true,
    "is_hyderabad_area": true,
    "lead_score": "Hot",
    "urgency": "High"
  }
}

# Actor input Schema

## `redditSubreddits` (type: `array`):

List of subreddits to search for personal-loan related posts.
## `redditKeywords` (type: `array`):

Keywords to search for in each subreddit.
## `maxResultsPerSource` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of posts to fetch per subreddit × keyword combination.
## `enableLlmFiltering` (type: `boolean`):

If enabled, run built-in heuristic/LLM-style filtering to keep only Hot/Warm loan leads.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "redditSubreddits": [
    "hyderabad",
    "personalfinanceindia",
    "IndianCreditCards",
    "IndiaBusiness"
  ],
  "redditKeywords": [
    "personal loan hyderabad",
    "need loan hyderabad",
    "loan agent personal loan hyderabad",
    "loan hyderabad"
  ],
  "maxResultsPerSource": 50,
  "enableLlmFiltering": false
}
````

# 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("botflowtech/reddit-scraper").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("botflowtech/reddit-scraper").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 botflowtech/reddit-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/LPzXABYlWUPpvx4Tx/builds/hKyExiFtwZiu9rOBK/openapi.json