Reddit Subreddit Post Scraper

The Reddit Subreddit Post Scraper is a Claude skill that pulls posts from any subreddit straight into a sortable markdown table. Hot, new, rising, or top-of-the-week. Up to a hundred posts per page, paged automatically.

The Problem

You want to know what an audience actually cares about. r/SaaS, r/indiehackers, r/Entrepreneur, r/Marketing, whichever niche you're building for. So you visit the sub. You scroll the hot feed. You open six tabs. You bookmark three. You scroll some more. You forget which post you were going to come back to study.

You try to spot patterns. What titles land, what formats get traction, which complaints keep showing up. But you can't see fifty posts at once because Reddit only shows you a feed. Tomorrow that feed has rotated. The post you wanted to dissect is gone. The patterns you thought you saw weren't real because your sample was twelve posts and you couldn't even remember half of them.

This skill ends the pain. One command, fifty posts in a table, sorted however you need.

What this Claude skill does

Pulls posts from any subreddit by hot, new, rising, or top-over-window (hour / day / week / month / year / all).
Pages through up to 50 posts by default (configurable, with a hard ceiling against runaway loops). No per-page clicking, no manual cursor wrangling.
Writes a single markdown table with date, title, body preview, upvotes, comments, author, flair, and link — sorted newest first or top-score first depending on the endpoint you pick.
Dumps full untruncated bodies in a follow-up section so the meat of long self-posts doesn't get lost to table truncation.
Records sort, time window, and timestamp in the frontmatter so you can replay or audit later.

Why it's amazing!

See fifty posts side-by-side instead of scrolling a feed that rotates daily.
Spot patterns in titles, formats, and flair across an actual sample.
Free to run by default. No accounts, no subscriptions.
Re-run weekly and diff the snapshots to trend-watch a community over time.

Who it's for

Anyone studying an audience on Reddit. But especially founders profiling an ideal customer, indie hackers scouting niches before they build, content strategists picking angles that already get traction, marketers studying competitor and thought-leader posts, and consultants doing market validation. Anyone who's tried to "study a subreddit" by scrolling and ended up with nothing but six open tabs.

How it works

Ask Claude something like:

"Pull the top 50 posts from r/SaaS this week."
"Get me the newest hot posts in r/indiehackers — I want to see what's landing right now."

You'll get a markdown file back with a table like:

Date	Title	Body	Upvotes	Comments	Author	Flair	Link
2026-05-22	I quit my SaaS after $3K MRR	Three years in, I...	1,240	287	@founder_jane	Story	link
2026-05-21	Pricing question for a new tool	I'm launching...	412	64	@indie_dave	Question	link
2026-05-21	How I got my first 100 customers	Spent six months on...	388	51	@growth_kara	Growth	link

Below the table, a "Full text" section dumps every self-post in full so you can read without re-opening Reddit. The summary printed to stdout calls out the top 3 by upvote score for quick triage.

Pairs well with these other skills

This scraper gives you the post list across a whole subreddit — these skills drill in and turn the patterns into something usable:

Reddit Post Comments Scraper Skill: Once a post stands out, pull its full threaded comments where the real objections and language live.
ICP Generator Skill: Turn the recurring pains and phrasing across the sample into a sharp customer profile.
Content Ideas Generator Skill: Take the post angles that already get traction and turn them into your own content plan.
User Feedback Analyzer Skill: Run the post bodies through theme analysis to see what the community keeps raising.

FAQ

Does it cost anything to run?

Free by default. No accounts, subscriptions, or paid setup required for the common cases. On rare heavily-throttled subreddits you may need additional setup, but most pulls just work.

How many posts can I pull at once?

Default is 50. The skill pages through Reddit's feed automatically — up to around 2,000 posts in a single run. For most research, 50–100 is the sweet spot. Bigger samples mostly add noise.

Does it pull the comments under each post?

No. This skill pulls the post list: title, body, score, comment count, link. For the actual conversation under a specific post, use the sibling Reddit Post Comments Scraper skill. Two skills, two jobs, cleaner triggering.

Can it pull from private or quarantined subreddits?

No. Private subs aren't accessible. Public and unrestricted subs work fine.

What sort options does it support?

For recent posts: hot, new, or rising. For top posts: hour, day, week, month, year, or all. Each is its own endpoint, picked from the command flags.

Can I re-run it weekly to trend-watch a niche?

Yes, that's one of the highest-leverage uses. Re-running overwrites the previous snapshot at the same path. Move old snapshots somewhere else first and you've got a time series you can diff.

What if a subreddit name is misspelled or banned?

You'll get empty results or zeros across the board. The skill normalizes name variants (SaaS, r/SaaS, https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/) but it can't fix a sub that doesn't exist.

Safe To Install

Please read before installing. Any skill you copy online is someone else's code running inside your Claude, and a lot of what's out there should give you pause. Most authors who give skills away don't give a second thought to quality or security. Most are vibe-coded slop pushed out untested, and some are the occasional bad actor hiding an exploit in plain sight. (Read about OpenClaws ClawHub security nightmare). Every skill we publish is vetted by a programmer with 20+ years of professional experience and checked line by line for anything that touches your files without reason. With Stim-Pack Studios Claude Skills, you get peace of mind knowing you're installing safe, vetted code, not a stranger's guess.

Add it to your Claude workflow

If you're doing audience research, niche analysis, or content scouting, this is the data layer that makes the rest of the work serious. It collapses the scrolling-and-bookmarking phase of Reddit research into one markdown file you can actually study.

Get the Reddit Subreddit Post Scraper Claude skill and see what a community actually talks about in seconds.