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Connect Reddit to YouTube

YouTube creators and brands are discussed on Reddit, and Reddit threads are often where viewers ask the questions videos answer. Connecting the two helps you find the right threads for your videos and keep an eye on what both communities say about you.
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Ideas

What you can do with Reddit and YouTube

Match your videos to Reddit questions and track mentions across both sites. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
DailyAI

Find Reddit threads for your new YouTube videos

When you publish a video, you get an email listing Reddit threads where it would help, with a suggested comment for each.

See how it works
DailyAI

Get a morning email of Reddit and YouTube mentions

Each morning you get one email summarising what Reddit and YouTube said about your company or topic yesterday, with sentiment.

See how it works Your own logic

Any other automation you can describe in words

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

See how to build your own

Build your own

Build any Reddit and YouTube automation you can describe

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

When I upload a new YouTube video, search Reddit for threads from the past week on that topic and list the five most relevant.

Flag YouTube comments on my videos that ask the same question as a popular Reddit thread.

Use cases

Why people connect Reddit and YouTube

How the two apps work together

  • A schedule or a check every few minutes searches Reddit and YouTube for your keywords.
  • The script compares and summarises results with AI.
  • It sends a report or saves results, and remembers what it has already seen.

  • YouTubers finding discussion of their topic

    Reddit threads asking about a video's subject are found. The creator can share the video where it helps.

  • Brands monitoring both platforms

    Reddit mentions and YouTube comments are collected together. One view of what people say.

  • Researchers tracking trends

    Topics rising on Reddit are matched against YouTube search results. Gaps for new videos show up.

  • Creators turning questions into videos

    Common Reddit questions become video ideas. Content answers what people ask.

More apps

Reddit, YouTube 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.

Video ideas sheet

Each week, find popular Reddit questions about my niche with few YouTube answers and add them to my Google Sheet.

Mentions in Slack

Post new Reddit posts and YouTube comments mentioning my brand to #community.

Weekly report

Email me a weekly list of Reddit threads where my latest YouTube video would be relevant.

Setup

Connect Reddit and YouTube 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.

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.

YouTube

Video / Social

  1. In Google Cloud Console, enable the YouTube Data API v3 for your project.
  2. Under Credentials, create an API key and restrict it to the YouTube Data API. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, save it as a secret on Connections & secrets.
  3. For channel actions, set up the OAuth consent screen with the https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube scope, then create a Web OAuth client with the redirect URI https://clickruntime.com/oauth/callback.
  4. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections, choose YouTube and enter your OAuth client ID and secret, then authorise your channel.

FAQ

Questions about connecting Reddit and YouTube

What do I need to connect YouTube?
A YouTube Data API key from Google Cloud, saved in your ClickRuntime dashboard. Reading public videos needs nothing more.
Does it comment on Reddit or YouTube for me?
No. It suggests comments and summaries by email; you decide what to post.
How far back does it look?
Usually the last day, so each email only covers what is new.
Are there limits on YouTube searches?
YouTube gives each key a daily quota. A few searches a day stays well within it.
Can it read comments on my videos?
Yes. With your YouTube connection it can read comments on your channel's videos.
Can it track other channels?
Yes. Public videos and stats from other channels can be read through the YouTube Data API.
Can it see my YouTube analytics?
Basic view and like counts are available. Detailed analytics need the YouTube Analytics API scopes on your connection.

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