No. It is a ready-to-run cloud tool — set the inputs and click run. Built on Reddit Posts Search Scraper.

Reddit Crisis Monitor - Breaking Topic Tracking

Every new Reddit post and comment on a breaking topic from the last 24 hours, so PR and comms teams stay ahead of a developing story in real time.

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How it works

1
Open it on Apify
Hit Run on Apify — it opens the tool in the cloud, no install.
2
Set the inputs
Adjust query, subreddit, sort (sensible defaults are pre-filled).
3
Click Run
The tool runs on Apify’s cloud and collects the data for you.
4
Export the results
Download as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pipe straight into your app, Google Sheets, or an AI agent.

Field	What it does	Type
`query`	Keywords to search Reddit for. Supports Reddit search operators (e.g. "title:layoffs", "author:spez", quotes for phrases).	string
`subreddit`	Search only within this subreddit (e.g. "MechanicalKeyboards" or "r/MechanicalKeyboards"). Leave empty to search all of Reddit.	string
`sort`	How to order the search results.	string
`time`	Applies to Relevance / Top / Most-comments sorts.	string
`maxItems`	Keyless RSS returns up to ~25 newest-matching posts and leaves score, numComments, upvoteRatio, flair, thumbnail and domain null (only title, author, url, selft	integer
`includeComments`	Fetch top comments for each post. Requires Reddit app credentials (anonymous comment access is blocked by Reddit).	boolean
`commentLimit`	Maximum number of top comments to fetch per post (when Include comments is on).	integer
`redditClientId`	Optional. Create a free 'script' app at reddit.com/prefs/apps for richer fields (score, comment counts), deeper pagination, and comments. Without it the actor u	string
`redditClientSecret`	The secret for the Reddit app above.	string
`notionConnector`	Optional. Write each post as a page into your Notion when the run finishes. Authorize a Notion connector once in Settings → API & Integrations → MCP connectors,	string
`notionParentId`	Optional. The Notion data source ID of the database to write into (only used if a Notion connector is set). Leave empty to create the pages privately in your wo	string

A structured dataset — each result includes fields like:

authorcreatedAtcreatedUtcdetailsdomainflairidisSelfnumCommentsover18permalinkqueryscoreselftext

Export every run as JSON, CSV or Excel, or send it to your app, a database, Google Sheets, or an AI agent.