> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.getmesa.com/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.getmesa.com/connect/reddit.md).

# Reddit

## Configure

To configure a Reddit action, you simply need to copy and paste the Reddit URL that you would like to extract the content from into the URL field of the step.

<figure><img src="https://3425906282-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F1H6u1HQc3Iew7ATmmiCi%2Fuploads%2F07bOZiQ50uT4DSizc105%2Fimage.png?alt=media&amp;token=fa7abe07-53f4-47a2-a79f-c469dd25a04e" alt="Screenshot of the MESA Reddit action configuration where you paste the Reddit URL to extract content from. Spotlight the URL field."><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

The content of the webpage will be available as [variables](https://docs.getmesa.com/workflow-builder/fields/variables) via the variable selector in future steps.

<figure><img src="https://3425906282-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F1H6u1HQc3Iew7ATmmiCi%2Fuploads%2FiLdF42IH2ND4HQF21NJl%2Fimage.png?alt=media&amp;token=4e4adc03-cdb3-4894-8984-390eb2808115" alt="Screenshot of the MESA variable selector in a later step showing the scraped Reddit webpage content available as variables. Spotlight the Reddit content variables in the variable selector."><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

## Technical Notes

* We retrieve the webpage data through scraping, which means we make multiple attempts to extract the information. If we’re unable to get the data, we return the following error message: "Data not found. Please try again with a different URL."<br>

  This error may appear if the data couldn’t be located or if the URL is invalid.