No. It is a ready-to-run cloud tool — set the inputs and click run. Built on Lemmy Scraper.

Lemmy Keyword Search: Find Posts on Any Topic

Track a brand or topic on Lemmy by pulling every post that mentions your keyword across lemmy.world, sorted newest first, with author and score.

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How it works

1
Open it on Apify
Hit Run on Apify — it opens the tool in the cloud, no install.
2
Set the inputs
Adjust instance, mode, query (sensible defaults are pre-filled).
3
Click Run
The tool runs on Apify’s cloud and collects the data for you.
4
Export the results
Download as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pipe straight into your app, Google Sheets, or an AI agent.

Inputs

Field	What it does	Type
`instance`	The Lemmy instance host to scrape (bare domain, no https://). Examples: lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, sh.itjust.works.	string
`mode`	What to scrape: "feed" = the instance front-page feed; "community" = a single community (put its name in Query); "search" = search posts by keyword (put the ter	string
`query`	For mode "community": the community name, e.g. "technology" or "[email protected]". For mode "search": the keywords to search for, e.g. "linux". Ignored in	string
`sort`	How to sort posts. Hot/Active rank by recent engagement; New is chronological; the Top* options rank by score within a time window.	string
`maxItems`	Maximum number of posts to return. The actor paginates (50 per request) until it reaches this many or runs out of posts.	integer
`notionConnector`	Optional. Write each post as a page into your Notion when the run finishes. Authorize a Notion connector once in Settings → API & Integrations → MCP connectors,	string
`notionParentId`	Optional. The Notion data source ID of the database to write into (only used if a Notion connector is set). Leave empty to create the pages privately in your wo	string

What you get

A structured dataset — each result includes fields like:

authorauthorActorbodycommentscommunitycommunityTitledownvotesidnsfwpostUrlpublishedscorethumbnailtitle

Export every run as JSON, CSV or Excel, or send it to your app, a database, Google Sheets, or an AI agent.

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