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Connect Reddit to Gmail

Get the useful parts of Reddit in your Gmail inbox: sales leads, brand mentions, trend digests and product ideas, summarised so you can act on them in minutes instead of checking Reddit every day.
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Ideas

What you can do with Gmail and Reddit

Reddit leads, mentions, trends and ideas summarised and sent to your inbox. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
DailyAI

Email yourself business ideas found on Reddit

Each morning you get an email with the problems people described on Reddit that could be worth building a product for.

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DailyAI

Get daily social post drafts from Reddit trends

Each morning you get an email with today's trending Reddit topics in your niche and a ready-to-edit social post for each.

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Daily or weeklyAI

Get a digest of the best Reddit discussions

A short summary of the best discussions in your favourite subreddits lands in your inbox each week.

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HourlyAI

Get emailed when someone on Reddit needs your product

When someone on Reddit asks for something your product solves, you get an email with the post and a suggested reply.

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DailyAI

Get a daily email of Reddit brand mentions

Each day you get one email listing every Reddit mention of your brand, with its sentiment and a link.

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Every 10 minutes

Forward Reddit inbox messages and replies to Gmail

New Reddit private messages, comment replies and username mentions are emailed to you from Gmail with a link back to the thread.

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On a schedule

Email yourself a weekly report on your Reddit posts

Every Monday a Gmail email lists the posts you submitted to Reddit in the last 30 days with their score, upvote ratio, comment count and change since last week.

See how it works Your own logic

Any other automation you can describe in words

Your own rules, schedule and AI steps with Gmail and Reddit, plus any other app. Describe it and your assistant builds it.

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Build your own

Build any Gmail and Reddit automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what should happen between Gmail and Reddit in your own words, with your conditions, other apps or an AI step, and your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

  • Your own rules

    Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.

  • Any number of apps

    One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.

  • AI where it helps

    Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.

  • On a schedule or on each event

    Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

For example, ask your assistant

Send me a Reddit digest only if there are at least three new posts with over 20 upvotes, otherwise skip that day.

Group the digest by subreddit and write one sentence on why each post matters for my business.

Use cases

Why people connect Gmail and Reddit

How the two apps work together

  • A schedule or a check every few minutes searches subreddits or keywords.
  • The script filters and summarises posts with AI.
  • It sends a digest or alert from your Gmail address.

  • Founders keeping up with their niche

    A daily email lists the top posts in chosen subreddits with summaries. No time spent scrolling.

  • Brand managers tracking mentions

    Reddit mentions are emailed with a link and sentiment. Problems are spotted early.

  • Writers collecting ideas

    Questions from Reddit arrive by email as possible topics. Ideas come from real readers.

  • Job seekers watching hiring threads

    New posts in hiring subreddits matching keywords are emailed. Openings are seen quickly.

More apps

Gmail, Reddit and other apps in one automation

An automation isn't limited to two apps. Add the next step in another app and it runs as part of the same automation.

Log and email

Log every Reddit mention of my product to a Google Sheet and email me a daily digest of new rows.

Urgent mentions to Slack

Email me a daily Reddit digest, and post any negative mention of my brand to #support right away.

Save ideas to Notion

When I reply "save" to a Reddit digest email, add the listed posts to my Notion ideas database.

Setup

Connect Gmail and Reddit once

Every idea on this page uses the same two connections, so you set them up once. If one is missing, your assistant tells you and links to the right place.

Gmail

Email

  1. At console.cloud.google.com, create a project and enable the Gmail API under APIs & Services → Library.
  2. Set up the OAuth consent screen. On Google Workspace choose Internal. On a personal Gmail account choose External, then under Audience click Publish app so it is In production, not Testing.
  3. Under Data Access, add the scopes you need, such as https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.modify, or gmail.send if you only want to send.
  4. Under Clients, create an OAuth client of type Web application with the redirect URI https://clickruntime.com/oauth/callback.
  5. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections, choose Gmail and enter the client ID and secret. On a personal account Google shows an unverified-app screen: click Advanced, then go to your app.

Reddit

Social / community

  1. Submit an access request under Reddit's Responsible Builder Policy and wait for approval.
  2. Then go to reddit.com/prefs/apps and create an app, type script for your own account or web app.
  3. Set the redirect to https://clickruntime.com/oauth/callback.
  4. Under Connections in the ClickRuntime dashboard, enter the client ID and secret. For a script app, you also enter your Reddit username and password there yourself.

FAQ

Questions about connecting Gmail and Reddit

How often will I get emails?
As often as you choose. Digests usually go out daily or weekly, while lead alerts can be checked every hour and only email you when there is a match.
Which address are the emails sent from?
From your own Gmail or Google Workspace address, so you can filter them into a folder or forward them to a colleague.
Does it reply on Reddit for me?
No. It reads posts and may suggest a reply in the email, but you decide whether to post it yourself.
Can it watch private subreddits?
Only ones your connected Reddit account can see. Most of these automations are built for public communities.
Can it email other people?
Yes. The digest can go to any addresses you list.
Can it search by keyword across all of Reddit?
Yes. It can use Reddit search for keywords as well as watching specific subreddits.
Will it send alerts at night?
Only if you want. You can set quiet hours and roll overnight posts into the morning email.

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