Forum & Community Data API
Collect public discussion threads, replies, upvotes, and community metadata from forums and Q&A platforms for market research, content analysis, and community intelligence applications.
How It Works
Target relevant communities
Identify forums, subreddits, and Q&A communities where your target audience discusses relevant topics.
Extract thread data
Pull post title, body, upvotes, reply count, author, date, and top replies from public discussion threads.
Analyze community signals
Identify trending topics, pain points, feature requests, and sentiment patterns across communities.
Quick Start
curl -X POST https://alterlab.io/api/v1/scrape \
-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"url": "https://forum.example.com/category/product-feedback",
"extract": {
"threads": [{
"title": "string",
"upvotes": "number",
"replies": "number",
"author": "string",
"date": "string"
}]
}
}'Need an API key? — no credit card required.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What data can I extract from public forum threads?
Thread title, post body text, upvote/downvote counts, reply count, author username, posting date, thread category tags, and top-level replies with their own vote counts.
How do I identify trending topics in a specific community?
Extract top and hot post listings from target communities. Sort by upvote velocity (upvotes per hour) to identify rapidly trending content. Keyword extraction from titles reveals emerging topics.
Responsible Use
AlterLab is designed for extracting publicly available data. Always review the terms of service for any website you access, respect robots.txt directives, and ensure your use case complies with applicable laws in your jurisdiction.
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Pricing
From $0.0002/request. No subscriptions. Balance never expires.
Your first scrape.
Sixty seconds.
$1 free credit — up to 5,000 scrapes. No credit card.
Just a POST request.
No credit card required · $1 free credit, up to 5,000 scrapes · Balance never expires