How do I get Reddit Post Search data from Scavio?

Send a search request with the appropriate platform (reddit) and Scavio returns reddit post search data in the response. See the example above for the exact field path.

Is Reddit Post Search data available in real time?

Yes. Scavio fetches reddit post search data in real time on each request. There is no caching layer and no stale data.

How much does Reddit Post Search data cost?

Reddit Post Search data is returned as part of the standard search response. Each request costs 1 credit. Free tier includes 500 credits/month.

Reddit Post Search API: Fetch Reddit Post Search Data via Scavio

What is Reddit Post Search?

Reddit Post Search is the default entry point for building any Reddit-aware agent. Pass a query and optionally a sort (relevance, hot, top, new, comments) and Scavio returns an ordered list of posts with their canonical URL, subreddit, author handle, UTC timestamp, score, comment count, and NSFW flag. Cursor-based pagination exposes a nextCursor token so you can walk the long tail of results without re-querying from page zero. Unlike rate-limited Reddit JSON endpoints, Scavio handles residential proxy rotation, CAPTCHA challenges, and JavaScript rendering transparently, so your pipeline keeps working whether you run it three times a day or three thousand.

Example Response

JSON

{
  "data": {
    "searchQuery": "fastapi vs django 2026",
    "totalResults": 14,
    "nextCursor": "eyJjYW5kaWRhdGVzX3JldH...",
    "posts": [
      {
        "position": 0,
        "id": "t3_1smb9du",
        "title": "FastAPI vs Django in 2026 -- what the teams are actually using",
        "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1smb9du/fastapi_vs_django/",
        "subreddit": "Python",
        "author": "python_dev",
        "timestamp": "2026-04-15T16:34:40.389000+0000",
        "nsfw": false
      }
    ]
  },
  "credits_used": 2,
  "credits_remaining": 498
}

Use Cases

Brand and product mention monitoring across all of Reddit
Feeding fresh community-sourced context into RAG pipelines
Building discussion-aware AI assistants for developer tools
Market research on pain points and trends from target subreddits
Surfacing high-quality posts for newsletter or digest generation

Why Reddit Post Search Matters

Reddit is the single largest source of unfiltered practitioner discussion on the public web. Search APIs that index Reddit through Google miss most of the long tail and lose structured fields like subreddit, score, and flair. A direct, structured Reddit search API turns any agent from a marketing-copy parrot into something that can ground claims in what real users actually said this week.

LangChain Example

Drop reddit post search data into your LangChain agent in a few lines:

Python

from langchain_scavio import ScavioRedditSearch

tool = ScavioRedditSearch()
results = tool.invoke({"query": "best python web frameworks 2026", "sort": "new"})

for post in results["data"]["posts"][:5]:
    print(f"r/{post['subreddit']}: {post['title']}")

Reddit Post Search