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Reddit Signal Harvester (Apify)

Data & Research apify

Pulls Reddit keyword, subreddit, thread, and user data via Apify and returns normalized, bot-filtered JSON. Bypasses the public endpoint 403.

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Reddit Signal Harvester (Apify)

A library skill that pulls data from Reddit using the Apify trudax/reddit-scraper actor — bypassing Reddit's 403 blocks on cloud/server IPs. Authentication comes from APIFY_API_TOKEN in ~/.claude/.env.

It has four modes: search (single or multiple keywords, globally or within a specific subreddit), subreddit (a community's top/new/hot/rising feed), thread (a post + its comments), and user (a handle's post and comment history).

When to use: When you want to surface real user pain points about a niche, validate a product idea, gather sentiment about a competitor/tool, look for demand signals, or take the community pulse on a topic. Other agents can call it via the Skill tool to obtain raw Reddit signal.

Prerequisite: APIFY_API_TOKEN must be set in ~/.claude/.env.

Output: A normalized array of rows (JSON) with consistent keys — each row contains the post ID, subreddit, author, title, body, score, upvote ratio, comment count, creation time, and safety flags. Bot, deleted ([deleted]), and AutoModerator content is filtered out automatically.

How do I use this skill?

You don't "run" a skill — after installing it you just tell the agent your task (e.g. ask for the relevant job), and the skill kicks in by itself when its description matches.

Upload the reddit-fetcher.zip you downloaded as-is — no packaging needed, the format is already correct (folder at root).

  1. Open Settings → Customize → Skills
  2. Upload → select the reddit-fetcher.zip you downloaded
  3. Claude reads SKILL.md; the name + description appear. Ready ✅

Scripts run in Anthropic's code-execution environment (sandbox) — not on your machine.