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title: "Scrape Creators API / Subreddit Search"
description: "ScrapeCreators tool scrapecreators-reddit-subreddit-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 within a specific subreddit for posts, comments, and media matching a query. Returns posts with title, votes, num_comments, url, and created_at; comments with author, body, votes, and parent post info; and media with title, media_type, image dimensions, and gallery_count. Supports sort, timeframe filtering, and cursor-based pagination.

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

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `cursor` | string | no |   |
| `query` | string | no |   |
| `sort` | string | no |   |
| `subreddit` | string | yes |   |
| `timeframe` | string | no |   |

## Output

The run's `result` holds the provider's answer. Signed in, `looot inspect scrapecreators-reddit-subreddit-search` prints its fields.

## 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:

<CodeGroup>

```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-subreddit-search","input":{"subreddit":"<subreddit>"},"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-subreddit-search",
    input: {
      subreddit: "<subreddit>",
    },
    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-subreddit-search",
        "input": {
            "subreddit": "<subreddit>",
        },
        "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.subreddit.search` as `endpointId`; see [the job page](/reference/jobs/reddit-subreddit-search).