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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.

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Reddit, YouTube
AI
Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
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Create a ClickRuntime automation: every morning at 8am, find yesterday's Reddit posts and YouTube videos mentioning Northwind Bikes, summarise them with the overall sentiment, and email me.

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

First time? Adding ClickRuntime to your assistant takes about two minutes.

Why use it

Why teams use this automation

Brands are reviewed and discussed on both YouTube and Reddit, and those opinions shape what buyers think. A small marketing team cannot check both every day, so a critical review or a viral thread can go unnoticed for a week.

One morning email covering both sites shows what was said and how people feel, so you can respond, thank or investigate the same day.

What you get out of it

  • Two sites, one email

    Mentions from Reddit and YouTube are combined, so you see the whole picture at once.

  • Sentiment at a glance

    The summary says whether the mood was positive or negative and why.

  • Catch reviews early

    New review videos and threads are spotted the next morning, while you can still join the conversation.

  • Only new mentions

    Items already reported are remembered, so each email covers only the last day.

How it works

What happens, step by step

  1. Every morning ClickRuntime searches Reddit and YouTube for posts and videos from the last day mentioning your brand.

  2. It skips anything it reported before.

  3. AI summarises what was said and gives the overall sentiment.

  4. The summary, with links, is emailed to you.

Before it runs live

  • Connect Reddit
  • Connect YouTube

What you get

RunsDaily
Get a morning email of Reddit and YouTube mentionstoday, 9:00Succeeded
Email · Northwind Bikes: 4 new mentionsMostly positive. A YouTube review praises the new e-bike's range; one Reddit thread reports slow warranty replies. • YouTube: Northwind Volt 2 – 6 months later (youtu.be/…)

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. 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.

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 Reddit and YouTube steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.
daily_brand_topic_mentions_across_reddit_and_youtube.pyexample
from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, state, ai, notify

TOPIC = "Northwind Bikes"

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"]]

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    seen = set(state.get("seen") or [])
    since = (datetime.now(timezone.utc) - timedelta(days=1)).strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ")
    posts = [p for p in reddit("/search", q=f'"{TOPIC}"', sort="new", t="day", limit=25) if p["id"] not in seen]
    videos = [v for v in http.get("https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search", params={"key": credentials.secret("YOUTUBE_API_KEY"),
              "q": TOPIC, "part": "snippet", "type": "video", "publishedAfter": since, "maxResults": 20}).json()["items"]
              if v["id"]["videoId"] not in seen]
    lines = [f"Reddit: {p['title']} https://redd.it/{p['id']}" for p in posts]
    lines += [f"YouTube: {v['snippet']['title']} – {v['snippet']['description'][:200]} https://youtu.be/{v['id']['videoId']}" for v in videos]
    if not lines:
        notify.email_me(f"{TOPIC}: no new mentions", "Nothing new on Reddit or YouTube yesterday.")
        return {"mentions": 0}
    summary = ai.generate("\n".join(lines), max_output_tokens=700,
                          system=f"Summarise what was said about {TOPIC}, give overall sentiment, and list each item with its link.").text
    notify.email_me(f"{TOPIC}: {len(lines)} new mentions", summary)
    state.set("seen", (list(seen) + [p["id"] for p in posts] + [v["id"]["videoId"] for v in videos])[-3000:])
    return {"mentions": len(lines)}

FAQ

Common questions

What do I need for YouTube?
A YouTube Data API key saved in your ClickRuntime dashboard. Searching public videos needs nothing else.
Does it read video comments?
This version looks at video titles and descriptions. Comments can be added, using more of your YouTube quota.
What if there are no mentions?
You get a short email saying so, so you know it ran.
What permissions does it need?
read. Nothing else in your accounts is used.
Does it need AI?
Yes. It uses ClickRuntime's built-in AI, so you don't need an OpenAI or Anthropic key. Every plan includes a monthly AI allowance.
How many runs does it use?
One run each time it runs (daily). Checks that find nothing to do and stop right away aren't counted.
Can I change how it works?
Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

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