Showing you how to monitor specific keywords on Reddit

strongasicanbe

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Hello everyone,

More and more SaaS startups rely on Reddit to monitor their brand, watch competitors, find new customers... If you are a developer yourself, it is possible to build a short program that monitors specific keywords on Reddit. Let me show you how.

In order to get the last 100 Reddit posts, you should make a GET HTTP request to the following API endpoint: https://www.reddit.com/r/all/new/.json?limit=100

In order to get the last 100 Reddit comments, you should make a GET HTTP request to the following API endpoint:
The response from these API endpoints is a JSON object that contains a list of posts or comments. You can then look for the "selftext" keys that actually contain the content of the last submission, and then perform a simple keyword search on this content. Then it's only a matter of fetching the last data on a regular basis.

If you want more details about how to achieve Reddit monitoring, I just made an article about that: https://kwatch.io/how-to-monitor-keywords-on-reddit-with-golang

I guess that some of your already knew about these API endpoints, but for those who didn't I hope the above was helpful!

Arthur
 
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