Skip to main content
POST
/
datasets
/
v3
/
scrape
Discover Posts by Keyword
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.brightdata.com/datasets/v3/scrape \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "input": [
    {
      "keyword": "<string>",
      "date": "<string>",
      "num_of_posts": 123
    }
  ]
}
'
[
  {
    "post_id": "1bsdf34",
    "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1bsdf34/",
    "user_posted": "ml_researcher",
    "title": "New paper on transformer efficiency",
    "description": "Sharing a recent paper...",
    "num_upvotes": 842,
    "num_comments": 54,
    "date_posted": "2026-04-03T09:14:00Z",
    "tag": "Research",
    "community_name": "MachineLearning",
    "community_url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning",
    "community_description": "Beginners to experts.",
    "community_members_num": 2900000,
    "community_rank": null,
    "related_posts": [],
    "comments": [],
    "photos": [],
    "videos": []
  }
]

​
Query Parameters

​
dataset_id
string
default:"gd_lvz8ah06191smkebj4"
required
The dataset ID used for this request.
Must be set to gd_lvz8ah06191smkebj4 to collect Discover by keyword data.
​
type
string
default:"discover_new"
Must be set to discover_new.
​
discover_by
string
default:"keyword"
Must be set to keyword.
​
notify
boolean
default:false
Whether to send notifications when the request is completed.
​
include_errors
boolean
default:true
Whether to include errors in the response.

​
Request Body

​
input
object[]
required
An array of input objects.

​
Example

{
  "input": [
    {"keyword": "machine learning", "date": "Past week", "num_of_posts": 100},
    {"keyword": "python tips", "date": "Past month", "num_of_posts": 50}
  ]
}

[
  {
    "post_id": "1bsdf34",
    "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1bsdf34/",
    "user_posted": "ml_researcher",
    "title": "New paper on transformer efficiency",
    "description": "Sharing a recent paper...",
    "num_upvotes": 842,
    "num_comments": 54,
    "date_posted": "2026-04-03T09:14:00Z",
    "tag": "Research",
    "community_name": "MachineLearning",
    "community_url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning",
    "community_description": "Beginners to experts.",
    "community_members_num": 2900000,
    "community_rank": null,
    "related_posts": [],
    "comments": [],
    "photos": [],
    "videos": []
  }
]