Weekly
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.
- Runs
- Weekly
- Apps
- Google Sheets, Reddit
- AI
- Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
- Access
- Reddit read; sheet edit
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Create a ClickRuntime automation: every Monday, collect the top questions from the past week in r/gardening and r/vegetablegardening, and add each to my Content Research sheet with a suggested article title and outline.
First time? Adding ClickRuntime to your assistant takes about two minutes.
Why use it
Why teams use this automation
Writers and SEO teams want to answer the questions their audience actually asks, in the words they use. Keyword tools show volumes but not the real question behind them. Reddit shows both, but trawling through threads every week is slow.
Collecting the week's top questions with suggested article titles builds a research sheet you can plan from. The phrasing comes from real people, which helps both search rankings and readability.
What you get out of it
Real questions, real wording
Titles and outlines are based on how people actually phrase their problems, which matches how they search.
A plan for the content calendar
A steady supply of topics with outlines makes weekly planning quick.
Gaps become visible
Questions that keep coming up but have no good answer online are clear opportunities for your site.
Research without the trawling
The sheet fills itself weekly, so research time goes into writing instead.
How it works
What happens, step by step
Every Monday ClickRuntime reads the past week's top posts from the subreddits you chose.
AI keeps the posts that ask a real question and suggests an article title and short outline for each.
Each question is added to your sheet with its title, outline and a link to the thread.
Before it runs live
- Connect your Google Sheets account and pick the spreadsheets it may use
- Connect Reddit
What you get
Build your own
Need it to work differently?
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.
Changes you can ask for
- Run it at a different time, more or less often, or only on weekdays
- Change what the AI looks for, or how it writes the result
- Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
- Combine it with other Google Sheets and Reddit steps into one automation
Under the hood
The code that runs this automation
from google.oauth2.credentials import Credentials
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from datetime import date
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, ai
SUBS, SHEET_ID, RANGE = ["gardening", "vegetablegardening"], "your-spreadsheet-id", "Research!A:E"
SCHEMA = {"type": "object", "properties": {"items": {"type": "array", "items": {"type": "object",
"properties": {"n": {"type": "integer"}, "title": {"type": "string"}, "outline": {"type": "string"}}}}}}
def reddit(path, **params):
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer " + credentials.connection("reddit", "main"), "User-Agent": "clickruntime/1.0"}
return [c["data"] for c in http.get(f"https://oauth.reddit.com{path}", headers=headers, params=params).json()["data"]["children"]]
def append_rows(rows):
sheets = build("sheets", "v4", credentials=Credentials(credentials.connection("google", "work")), cache_discovery=False)
sheets.spreadsheets().values().append(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, range=RANGE, valueInputOption="RAW", body={"values": rows}).execute()
@on_trigger
def run(event):
posts = [p for s in SUBS for p in reddit(f"/r/{s}/top", t="week", limit=40)]
listing = "\n".join(f"{i}. {p['title']} | {p['selftext'][:200]}" for i, p in enumerate(posts))
items = ai.generate(listing, json_schema=SCHEMA, max_output_tokens=1500,
system="Keep only posts asking a question. For each, suggest an article title and a 3-5 heading outline.").json["items"]
rows = [[date.today().isoformat(), posts[i["n"]]["title"], i["title"], i["outline"], "https://reddit.com" + posts[i["n"]]["permalink"]]
for i in items if 0 <= i["n"] < len(posts)]
if rows:
append_rows(rows)
return {"questions": len(rows)}FAQ
Common questions
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How many questions are added each week?
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