Reddit Scraper

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GET/subreddits/insights

Subreddit Insights

Analyze a subreddit: posts per day, median score, best posting hours, top flairs, domains and authors.

QUERY PARAMS

Subreddit name, r/name, t5_ fullname or any reddit.com/r/ link.

Examples:

  • Name: technology
  • URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/

Posts to analyze: top spans days (better best-hours figures), new is the latest activity.

Default: top

Allowed values: top, new

Time window for the top sample.

Default: week

Allowed values: hour, day, week, month, year, all

Posts to analyze.

Default: 100

Allowed values: 1-100

{
  "subreddit": "technology",
  "sample": {
    "kind": "top",
    "time": "week",
    "size": 100,
    "span_hours": 156.6,
    "from": "2026-09-16T12:17:25Z",
    "to": "2026-09-23T00:52:00Z"
  },
  "activity": {
    "posts_per_day": 15.33,
    "comments_per_day": 6380.2,
    "by_hour_utc": [
      {
        "hour_utc": 0,
        "count": 8
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": 1,
        "count": 2
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": 2,
        "count": 2
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": 3,
        "count": 1
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": 4,
        "count": 1
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": 5,
        "count": 2
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": 6,
        "count": 1
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": 7,
        "count": 1
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": 8,
        "count": 0
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": 9,
        "count": 0
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": 10,
        "count": 4
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": 11,
        "count": 1
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": 12,
        "count": 9
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": 13,
        "count": 4
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": 14,
        "count": 6
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": 15,
        "count": 7
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": 16,
        "count": 5
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": 17,
        "count": 7
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": 18,
        "count": 6
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": 19,
        "count": 7
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": 20,
        "count": 5
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": 21,
        "count": 7
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": 22,
        "count": 4
      },
      {
        "hour_utc": 23,
        "count": 10
      }
    ],
    "by_weekday": [
      {
        "weekday": "monday",
        "count": 14
      },
      {
        "weekday": "tuesday",
        "count": 16
      },
      {
        "weekday": "wednesday",
        "count": 11
      },
      {
        "weekday": "thursday",
        "count": 23
      },
      {
        "weekday": "friday",
        "count": 9
      },
      {
        "weekday": "saturday",
        "count": 14
      },
      {
        "weekday": "sunday",
        "count": 13
      }
    ]
  },
  "engagement": {
    "score": {
      "mean": 5943.6,
      "median": 2949.5,
      "max": 43861
    },
    "comments": {
      "mean": 416.3,
      "median": 241.0,
      "max": 2601
    },
    "upvote_ratio_mean": 0.962,
    "nsfw_share": 0.0,
    "self_post_share": 0.0
  },
  "best_posting_hours_utc": [
    {
      "hour_utc": 4,
      "mean_score": 43861,
      "count": 1
    },
    {
      "hour_utc": 15,
      "mean_score": 12311.7,
      "count": 7
    },
    {
      "hour_utc": 10,
      "mean_score": 11958.8,
      "count": 4
    },
    {
      "hour_utc": 22,
      "mean_score": 9336.5,
      "count": 4
    },
    {
      "hour_utc": 13,
      "mean_score": 7736,
      "count": 4
    }
  ],
  "best_weekdays": [
    {
      "weekday": "monday",
      "mean_score": 8907.1,
      "count": 14
    },
    {
      "weekday": "wednesday",
      "mean_score": 6307.7,
      "count": 11
    },
    {
      "weekday": "thursday",
      "mean_score": 5992.7,
      "count": 23
    }
  ],
  "post_types": [
    {
      "type": "link",
      "count": 100
    }
  ],
  "top_flairs": [
    {
      "flair": "Artificial Intelligence",
      "count": 37
    },
    {
      "flair": "Business",
      "count": 19
    },
    {
      "flair": "Society",
      "count": 10
    },
    {
      "flair": "Privacy",
      "count": 8
    },
    {
      "flair": "Software",
      "count": 5
    },
    {
      "flair": "Hardware",
      "count": 4
    },
    {
      "flair": "Politics",
      "count": 4
    },
    {
      "flair": "Energy",
      "count": 3
    },
    {
      "flair": "Transportation",
      "count": 3
    },
    {
      "flair": "Social Media",
      "count": 3
    }
  ],
  "top_domains": [
    {
      "domain": "tomshardware.com",
      "count": 10
    },
    {
      "domain": "techspot.com",
      "count": 9
    },
    {
      "domain": "arstechnica.com",
      "count": 7
    },
    {
      "domain": "theguardian.com",
      "count": 4
    },
    {
      "domain": "dexerto.com",
      "count": 3
    },
    {
      "domain": "businessinsider.com",
      "count": 3
    },
    {
      "domain": "techcrunch.com",
      "count": 3
    },
    {
      "domain": "wired.com",
      "count": 3
    },
    {
      "domain": "finance.yahoo.com",
      "count": 3
    },
    {
      "domain": "gadgetreview.com",
      "count": 3
    }
  ],
  "top_authors": [
    {
      "username": "Logical_Welder3467",
      "count": 9
    },
    {
      "username": "MarvelsGrantMan136",
      "count": 6
    },
    {
      "username": "ArgentineBeauty",
      "count": 6
    },
    {
      "username": "marketrent",
      "count": 4
    },
    {
      "username": "Miserable_Phase_2519",
      "count": 4
    },
    {
      "username": "polymute",
      "count": 3
    },
    {
      "username": "_Dark_Wing",
      "count": 3
    },
    {
      "username": "Wagamaga",
      "count": 3
    },
    {
      "username": "Majano57",
      "count": 3
    },
    {
      "username": "AdSpecialist6598",
      "count": 3
    }
  ]
}