What is Lurk?

Lurk by AnyAPI finds Reddit threads that already rank in search and AI answers and surfaces posts and comments that match your keywords.

It reads full posts and comments, applies AI scoring, and records the exact matched phrase with a short written reason for each lead.

Community rules and promotion policy are shown with each scored lead so you can assess whether to reply.

The dashboard stores saved examples, SEO rows, competitor mentions, and recurring themes across projects.

Alerts and digests deliver leads to Slack, Discord, email, or a webhook, and a read-only API and agent guide support integrations.

lurk integrates with AnyAPI to read multiple platforms via a single key and is available as MIT-licensed source for self-hosting; it does not post or send DMs on users’ behalf.

Lurk pricing

Free trial

Lurk offers a free trial before requiring payment.

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Lurk's key features

Searches Reddit for threads, posts, and comments that match keywords and already rank in search/AI answers
Reads full posts and comments, applies AI scoring, and records the exact matched phrase with a short reason for each lead
Displays community rules and promotion policy alongside each scored lead
Dashboard stores saved examples, SEO rows, competitor mentions, and recurring themes across projects
Delivers alerts and digests to Slack, Discord, email, or webhooks; provides a read-only API and agent guide; integrates with AnyAPI and is available as MIT-licensed source for self-hosting

Lurk use cases

Monitor Reddit and forums with lurk by AnyAPI to automatically discover product feedback, bug reports and sales leads by keyword, AI-score and prioritize posts/comments, record exact matched phrases and reasons, and send high-priority alerts to Slack, email or webhook for your support and sales teams
Uncover SEO and content opportunities by scanning Reddit for target keywords and high-ranking threads, store themes and top comments as leads, extract matched phrases for content briefs and push real-time alerts to Discord or webhooks when threads gain traction
Protect brand safety and compliance by continuously monitoring subreddit comments for policy violations or harmful language, surface community rules alongside AI severity scores and matched evidence, and trigger incident workflows via Slack, Discord, email or webhook

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Who is Lurk for?

Seo specialists
Content marketers
Community managers
Social media managers
Pr professionals
Growth marketers
Competitive intelligence analysts
Product managers
Customer support teams
Community moderators
Marketing agencies
Developers and engineers (self-hosting & integrations)

Lurk FAQ

Is Lurk free?

Not permanently. Lurk gives you a free trial, after which a paid plan is required.

What are the best alternatives to Lurk?

The closest alternatives to Lurk are IdeaHunt, ReplyAgent, AI Reply, CustomerPing and Redcom.ai. You can compare them side by side in the alternatives section further down this page.