How to automate Reddit post monitoring for brand mentions?
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Building a lightweight social listening tool for internal use, but the API throttling is driving me crazy. The goal is just to monitor a few key subreddits for brand mentions so our team can jump in and help users in real time. However, polling the feeds constantly from our main server IP triggers rate limits after a couple of hours. What architecture or proxy setup works best for continuous background listening?
Building a 24/7 brand monitor is tricky because continuous polling from a single source IP is a fast track to getting throttled. When I built a similar keyword alert bot for my SaaS project, I ran into that exact wall. My workaround was assigning background tasks to cycle through httрs://www.simplynode.io/targets/proxies-for-reddit for every batch of requests. Spreading out the request load keeps the main server clean, and the bot has been running without a hitch ever since.
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