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"
}]
}
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