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Connect Google Sheets to Reddit

Reddit is where people describe their problems in their own words, and a Google Sheet is the easiest place to collect and sort them. Connecting the two turns subreddits into a steady list of leads, content ideas, brand mentions and product opportunities you can filter and share.
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Ideas

What you can do with Google Sheets and Reddit

Leads, mentions, questions and ideas from Reddit, collected in a sheet with AI notes. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
DailyAI

Collect Reddit pain points as business ideas

Each day, Reddit posts where people describe a problem worth paying to solve are added to your sheet with a short AI summary.

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DailyAI

Turn trending Reddit topics into content ideas

Each day the top discussions in your niche's subreddits become post ideas and drafts in your content sheet.

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HourlyAI

Find Reddit leads and log them in a sheet

Posts from people asking for a product like yours are added to your sheet every hour, scored and with a suggested reply.

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DailyAI

Find Reddit threads where your videos would help

Each day you get Reddit threads where one of your YouTube videos would genuinely help, with a suggested comment, tracked in a sheet.

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WeeklyAI

Collect Reddit questions for SEO and content research

Each week the real questions people ask in your subreddits are added to a sheet with suggested article topics.

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Every 30 minutesAI

Log Reddit brand mentions with drafted replies

Every Reddit mention of your brand or product area is logged in a sheet with its sentiment and a suggested reply, and negative ones are flagged by email.

See how it works Your own logic

Any other automation you can describe in words

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

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Build your own

Build any Google Sheets and Reddit automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what should happen between Google Sheets 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

Only log posts with at least 10 upvotes and fill the "type" column with question, complaint or recommendation using AI.

Each Friday, read the week's logged posts and write a short summary of the top three themes in a new tab.

Use cases

Why people connect Google Sheets and Reddit

How the two apps work together

  • A check every few minutes, or a schedule, searches the subreddits or keywords you choose.
  • The script filters posts, optionally scores them with AI, and adds new ones to your sheet.
  • It remembers post IDs so each post is logged once.

  • Founders researching problems

    Posts in relevant subreddits where people describe a problem are logged to a sheet. Patterns show up over time.

  • Marketers tracking brand mentions

    Reddit posts and comments mentioning the brand are saved with a link and sentiment. Reporting is easy.

  • Content teams finding topics

    Top questions from subreddits are listed in a sheet. Writers pick from real questions.

  • Sales teams finding leads

    Posts asking for tool recommendations are logged with subreddit and author. Reps can respond where it fits.

More apps

Google Sheets, 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.

Alert on high-scoring posts

When a Reddit post logged in my sheet scores 8 or above as a lead, post it to #leads.

Weekly topic email

Every Monday, email me the 10 most upvoted Reddit questions from my sheet last week.

Content ideas to Notion

For each Reddit question in my sheet with over 50 upvotes, add it to my Notion content ideas database.

Setup

Connect Google Sheets 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.

Google Sheets

Spreadsheets

  1. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections and choose Google Sheets.
  2. Sign in with your Google account and allow access.
  3. Pick the spreadsheets the automation may use. It can't see any other file in your Drive.

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 Google Sheets and Reddit

Which subreddits can it watch?
Any public subreddit, and Reddit-wide search for keywords. You list the communities and terms in the prompt.
Does it post or comment on Reddit for me?
No, these automations only read. Suggested replies are saved in the sheet for you to post yourself, which also keeps you within each community's rules.
Will the same post show up twice in my sheet?
No. Posts already added are remembered and skipped on later runs.
Do I need a Reddit developer account?
You connect your Reddit account once through your own Reddit app, created in a few minutes in Reddit's app settings.
Does it read comments too?
Yes. It can read comments under matching posts or search comments for keywords.
Can it watch many subreddits?
Yes. List the subreddits and keywords, keeping within Reddit's API rate limits.
Can it update upvote counts later?
Yes. A scheduled run can refresh the score and comment count for recent rows.

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