Market research

Market research finds the communities and accounts already talking about a space, sizes them, and profiles whoever is loudest.

Recipe

1. No key needed to start: call every step below keyless, under a shared budget of 20 credits per IP per day. Buy a key at /upgrade once you need more; it's shown once on the confirmation page.
2. reddit_search with type: "subreddits": find communities discussing the topic. Cost: 6 credits per page.
3. reddit_get_subreddit: size each candidate community by subscriber and active-user counts, the standard sizing signal. Cost: 4 credits per community.
4. x_search with type: "people": find X accounts talking about the topic. Single page, no cursor. Cost: 6 credits.
5. reddit_get_user and x_get_profile: profile the loudest voices found above before quoting or engaging them. Cost: 4 credits per Reddit user, 4 credits per X account.

Total cost

48 credits for one subreddit-discovery page, sizing 3 candidate communities, one X people search, and profiling 3 loud voices on each platform.

Limits worth knowing

• Reddit's discover result depth caps around a few hundred per query; decompose a broad market into several narrower queries.
• x_search with type: "people" returns a single page with no cursor: it is a scan, not an exhaustive directory.
• reddit_get_user and x_get_profile need an exact username or handle; use the search results' author/handle fields directly, don't guess one.

Run it

Platform docs: /docs/reddit and /docs/x. Full reference: /docs.