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Automate Reddit

Listen to the subreddits where your customers talk. Brand mentions, people asking for a tool like yours, hot threads in your niche and opinions on a topic get collected and summarised, and article links can be submitted with a first comment. Tell your AI assistant which subreddits and keywords matter, check the plan it shows you, and the watching carries on by itself.

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Create a ClickRuntime automation: give me a link I can send a keyword to. Pull Reddit posts and their top comments about it from the last 30 days, and email me the overall sentiment, the five most common complaints and three product ideas.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

Ideas

What you can automate in Reddit

Leads from people asking for what you sell, mentions of your brand, daily digests of your subreddits, and reply drafts you check before anything is posted. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
The moment it happensAI

Get a report on what Reddit says about a topic

You send a keyword and get back the mood, common complaints and product ideas from a month of posts and comments.

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HourlyAI

Find Reddit posts asking for what you sell

Each hour you get the new posts from people who need a product like yours, with the reason they matched.

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The moment it happens

Submit your article to a subreddit with a first comment

Your new article goes up in the subreddit you choose with a clear title and a summary comment.

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Every 2 hoursAI

Draft helpful replies to Reddit posts

You get draft comments for fresh posts on your topic, and your product is only mentioned where it fits.

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WeeklyAI

Get a weekly summary of your Reddit mentions

Every Monday you get a summary of the posts that were really about your product, with the noise removed.

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Every 30 minutes

Get Slack alerts for Reddit brand mentions

New posts naming your product reach Slack within half an hour.

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DailyAI

Get the day's hot posts from your subreddits

Each morning you see the top threads from the subreddits you follow, with one line on what each is about.

See how it works Your own logic

Any other automation you can describe in words

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

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Build your own

Build any Reddit automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what Reddit should do 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

Every 30 minutes, check new posts in r/smallbusiness and r/SaaS and send me only the ones AI judges to be someone asking for a tool like mine.

Every hour, add new Reddit posts mentioning my brand to my Mentions sheet in Google Sheets with the subreddit, title and link.

Every hour, find Reddit posts mentioning my product, log them in Google Sheets and post the negative ones in #marketing on Slack.

Works with

Reddit with the apps you already use

What you find on Reddit is useful elsewhere: leads in a sheet, digests in Gmail, alerts in Slack or Telegram, and threads where your YouTube videos fit.

Reddit works with hundreds of other apps

Name any of them when you ask your assistant, and your automation connects them. Over 248 apps are ready to go, and anything with an API works too.

  • X
  • LinkedIn
  • HubSpot
  • Pipedrive
  • Notion
  • Airtable
  • Discord
  • Perplexity
  • Apify
  • Firecrawl
  • SerpApi
  • beehiiv
  • Ghost
  • WordPress
  • Instagram
  • Facebook Pages
  • Trustpilot

Beyond chat

Have Reddit work when you're not in the chat

Connecting Reddit to ChatGPT or Claude lets you ask about it while you chat. ClickRuntime handles the part that should happen on its own: checks on a schedule and actions on each new event, set up from the same chat and running after you close it.

Setup

Connect Reddit

Reddit connects through an app you create under your own Reddit account, after Reddit approves your Data API request under its Responsible Builder Policy.

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.

Good to know

Reddit limits that affect automations

  • Reddit only allows Data API use after approval under its Responsible Builder Policy, and it is moving new builders to its Developer Platform, so getting new access may not be possible.
  • Access tokens last one hour. Approving permanent access lets ClickRuntime refresh them without you.
  • Reddit limits requests per client ID, so frequent checks across many subreddits should be spread out.
  • Every subreddit has its own self-promotion rules, and fully automatic promotional comments break Reddit's rules, so keep a human approval step.

FAQ

Questions about automating Reddit

Can ClickRuntime post on Reddit for me?
Yes, with the `submit` scope it can submit a link or text post and add a first comment. Reply automations email you drafts first, because automatic promotional comments break Reddit's rules.
Why do I need Reddit's approval?
Reddit's Responsible Builder Policy requires approval before any Data API use, including for your own app. Without it, the connection can't read or post.
Which posts can it see?
Public posts and comments in the subreddits and searches you give it. It doesn't read private messages.
Do I need AI?
Mention alerts work without it. Lead scoring, reply drafts, digests and topic reports use the AI that comes with every ClickRuntime plan, so you don't need an AI key.
How fast are mention alerts?
The mention alert searches every 30 minutes and the lead finder every hour, so new posts reach you within that time.
Is this a Reddit connector for ChatGPT or Claude?
Not for chatting with Reddit data. A chat connector lets your assistant read and change Reddit while you're in the conversation. ClickRuntime is for the work that should happen without you: you set up an automation from the chat once, and it keeps running on a schedule or on each Reddit event.

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