reddit-market-research 0.2.0

Reddit market research tool for finding potential users and pain points

Reddit Market Research Tool

Search Reddit for potential users, pain points, and market opportunities for your projects.

Installation

pip install reddit-market-research

Setup

Create a praw.ini file in your working directory with your Reddit API credentials:

[market_research]
client_id = YOUR_CLIENT_ID
client_secret = YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET
username = YOUR_USERNAME
password = YOUR_PASSWORD
user_agent = market_research by u/YOUR_USERNAME

Get credentials at https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps (create a "script" app).

Usage

Search Historical Posts

# Basic search (keywords and subreddits required)
reddit-market-research search -s "startups+SaaS" -k "AI tool,help,recommendation"

# JSON output for programmatic use
reddit-market-research search -s "webdev" -k "bug,issue" --json

# Save to CSV
reddit-market-research search -s "programming" -k "help,looking for" --output results.csv

# Time filters and limits
reddit-market-research search -s "fitness" -k "app,tracking" --time year --limit 50

# Load keywords from file
reddit-market-research search -s "startups" --keywords-file keywords.txt --json

Monitor New Posts (real-time)

reddit-market-research monitor -s "startups+SaaS" -k "looking for,need help"

Options

Flag	Short	Description
--subreddits	-s	Subreddits to search (plus-separated) required
--keywords	-k	Keywords to match (comma-separated)
--keywords-file		Load keywords from file (one per line)
--time	-t	Time filter: hour, day, week, month, year, all
--sort		Sort: relevance, hot, top, new, comments
--limit	-l	Max results to display
--json	-j	Output as JSON
--output	-o	Save to file (.csv or .json)

Output Fields

Each result includes:

• title - Post title
• body - First 200 chars of post body (where pain points often live)
• subreddit - Source subreddit
• score - Upvotes
• comments - Comment count
• url - Direct link to post
• created - Post timestamp
• author - Reddit username

Claude Code Workflow

This tool is designed to be used with Claude Code for market research on GitHub repos:

User: "Research market opportunities for https://github.com/neonwatty/seating-arrangement"

Claude Code:
  1. Fetches repo README via WebFetch
  2. Analyzes project → generates keywords + subreddits
  3. Runs: reddit-market-research search -s "..." -k "..." --json
  4. Parses JSON results
  5. Summarizes opportunities for user

Example prompts:

• "Find Reddit discussions about problems my seating-arrangement tool could solve"
• "Search for potential users of my meme-search project"
• "What pain points do people have that my youtube-tools repo addresses?"

Development

# Clone and install in development mode
git clone https://github.com/neonwatty/reddit-market-research.git
cd reddit-market-research
pip install -e ".[dev]"

# Run linting
ruff check reddit_monitor.py

# Run formatter
ruff format reddit_monitor.py

# Run type checking
mypy reddit_monitor.py

# Run dead code detection
vulture reddit_monitor.py tests/

# Run tests
pytest tests/ -v

License

MIT