Reddit Trends

Reddit conversation-data endpoint for audience questions, pain points, repeated phrases, and rising threads.

Overview

Pulls Reddit search results for a topic, optionally constrained to specific subreddits, then returns rising threads, repeated questions, pain-point language, repeated phrases, mentioned products, subreddit breakdowns, and source URLs.

Reference

POST/v1/reddit/trends

$0.05 · flat per call

Parameters

`topic`required	string	Topic, category, product, or audience to research on Reddit.
`subreddits`optional	string[]	Optional subreddit names to focus on, without the r/ prefix.
`timeframe`optional	string	Conversation window, e.g. "past_7_days", "past_30_days", "past_90_days". Default: `"past_30_days"`.

Request

curl https://api.cite42.dev/v1/reddit/trends \
  -X POST \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CITE42_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "topic": "AI search optimization", "timeframe": "past_30_days" }'

Response

{
  "topic": "AI search optimization",
  "timeframe": "past_30_days",
  "provider": "reddit",
  "subredditsSearched": ["all"],
  "risingThreads": [
    { "title": "How are people tracking AI citations?", "subreddit": "SEO", "score": 83, "comments": 21 }
  ],
  "repeatedQuestions": [{ "question": "How do I track AI citations?", "count": 3 }],
  "painPoints": [{ "phrase": "Confused", "count": 2 }],
  "repeatedPhrases": [{ "phrase": "ai citations", "count": 6 }],
  "sourceUrls": ["https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/..."],
  "requestId": "…",
  "billing": { "cost": { "usd": "0.05" }, "balance": { "usd": "13.31" } }
}