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title: "Scrape Creators API / Search"
description: "ScrapeCreators tool scrapecreators-reddit-search on looot: input fields, $0.00188 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python."
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Searches across all of Reddit for posts or comments matching a query. Set filter to posts (the default) or comments. Post results include title, author, selftext, subreddit, score, ups, upvote_ratio, num_comments, created_utc, url, permalink, and is_video. Comment results include the matching body, author, votes, timestamps, comment URL, parent relationship, and post/subreddit context. Comment searches support relevance, new, and top sorting. Timeframe filtering applies to post searches. Pagination uses the after token, and trim returns a lighter response.

- **Tool id:** `scrapecreators-reddit-search`
- **Provider:** [ScrapeCreators](/providers/scrapecreators)
- **Job:** [Search Reddit posts by keyword](/reference/jobs/reddit-post-search) (`reddit.post.search`)
- **Price:** $0.00188 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `after` | string | no | Used to paginate to next page |
| `filter` | string | no | Search posts or comments |
| `query` | string | yes | Search query. Example: "example keyword" |
| `sort` | string | no | Sort by. Comment search supports relevance, new, and top; comment_count is for post search only. |
| `timeframe` | string | no | Post search timeframe |
| `trim` | boolean | no | Set to true for a trimmed down version of the response |

## Output

Shape of the run's `result`, the expected shape, not yet checked against real answers:

```txt
{ after, posts: { id, ups, url, name, downs, score, title, author, created, over_18, spoiler, is_video, selftext, permalink, subreddit, created_utc, num_comments, upvote_ratio, selftext_html, created_at_iso, author_fullname, relative_position, subreddit_subscribers, total_awards_received }[], success, credits_charged, credits_remaining }
```

## Run it

Every call needs your API token in `LOOOT_TOKEN`; [Sign in](/get-started/sign-in#use-the-token-in-scripts-and-agents) shows how to get one. Each run also needs a new idempotency key, so a retry never pays twice. With `wait: 30` the answer comes back inline when the run ends within 30 seconds. Otherwise you get the running run back: poll `GET /v1/runs/<runId>`.

Example input with placeholder values:

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```bash curl
curl -X POST "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOOOT_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{"endpointId":"scrapecreators-reddit-search","input":{"query":"example keyword"},"wait":30}'
```

```js JavaScript
const response = await fetch("https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.LOOOT_TOKEN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    endpointId: "scrapecreators-reddit-search",
    input: {
      query: "example keyword",
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);
```

```python Python
import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['LOOOT_TOKEN']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "endpointId": "scrapecreators-reddit-search",
        "input": {
            "query": "example keyword",
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))
```

</CodeGroup>

To let looot pick among every provider of this job instead, send `job:reddit.post.search` as `endpointId`; see [the job page](/reference/jobs/reddit-post-search).