Community Research Toolkit
Research online communities and the creators who run them — forums, link-in-bio pages, and social platforms, no login required.
Research online communities and the creators who run them — forums, link-in-bio pages, and social platforms, no login required.
"What is this community talking about" and "who's behind this account" are two different questions, and this toolkit answers both. Reddit's 2023 API price hike ($0.24 per 1,000 calls) was steep enough to shut down Apollo and most other third-party apps overnight — official access to Reddit data is no longer the casual, cheap thing it used to be. Linktree has never shipped a public API at all; the only way to resolve someone's link-in-bio page programmatically has been to scrape it. This toolkit covers both gaps plus Discourse, phpBB, Hacker News, and Social Blade, so you can go from a discussion thread to the creator's cross-platform stats without hand-rolling five different clients.
A typical research pass looks like: find the discussion (Reddit / Discourse / phpBB / Hacker News) → find the person behind it (Linktree resolves their other profiles) → pull their creator stats (Social Blade). Each step is a separate Actor, but the output of one feeds cleanly into the input of the next — a name or handle in, structured data out, all the way down the chain.
No logins, no per-call pricing to negotiate, no API keys to manage across six different platforms — every Actor here talks to a public API or public page directly, at a flat pay-per-result price.
No. Each Actor talks to a public API or public page directly through Apify — you don't need your own Reddit developer app, Discourse login, or Social Blade subscription.
Pay-per-result, no subscription. You pay per post, profile, or lookup returned, not a flat monthly fee like Social Blade's paid tiers or Reddit's post-2023 API pricing.
Yes. Each Actor runs and bills independently — start with Reddit API Scraper alone, or chain it with Linktree Profile Scraper and Social Blade Scraper only when you need the creator's cross-platform stats.
Yes — Social Blade Scraper accepts a handle, platform ID, or profile URL for any of the four platforms and auto-detects which one from a pasted URL.
Pay-per-result. No subscription. Start with the one you need.
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