Daily

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.

Runs: Daily
Apps: Reddit
AI: Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
Access: read

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every morning at 7am, email me the top 10 hot posts from r/MachineLearning and r/LocalLLaMA with a one-line summary each.

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

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

Reddit is where a lot of industry news, product launches and honest opinions appear first, but following ten subreddits means opening the app repeatedly, scrolling past memes and arguments and still missing the thread that mattered. People who need to stay current for work, like marketers, founders and analysts, either lose time or fall behind.

Every day, ClickRuntime fetches the hot posts from the subreddits you list, uses built-in AI to summarize each one in a sentence or two, and emails you a single digest with links. You read the highlights in a few minutes and open only what looks relevant to your work that day.

It suits anyone who needs to follow several communities as part of their job but does not want Reddit as a daily habit at all.

What you get out of it

Industry signals are not missed
A launch, an outage report or a heated debate in your field is often visible on Reddit before it reaches news sites. The digest brings those threads to you while they still matter. Being early to a conversation is often the point.
Scrolling time is replaced by reading time
Five minutes with a digest covers what an hour in the app would. That time is spent on content that was already filtered by upvotes and condensed by AI. You get the benefit of staying informed without the habit of checking an app.
One email for many communities
Instead of checking each subreddit in turn, everything arrives together. Following more communities becomes cheap, so you widen your view without widening your workload. That includes smaller subreddits you would never remember to open.
Summaries let you triage quickly
Each post gets a short description of what it is about. You can skip a thread titled with a vague question once you see it is off topic, and click through when it is not. You open fewer tabs and still miss less.
Competitor and customer talk is visible
Hot threads in your market often include opinions about products like yours. Seeing them daily gives you honest language about what people value and what annoys them. Real phrases from real users are valuable for copy and product decisions.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Every morning, ClickRuntime collects the hot posts from each subreddit you follow.
AI gives each post a short, one-line summary.
You get one email grouped by subreddit, with the summaries and links.

Before it runs live

Connect Reddit

What you get

RunsDaily

Get the day's hot posts from your subredditstoday, 9:00Succeeded

Email · Hot on Reddit this morningr/LocalLLaMA 1. New 8B model runs at 40 tok/s on a laptop GPU https://reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1g...

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 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_hot_posts_digest.pyexample

from clickruntime import on_trigger, notify, http, credentials, ai

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer " + credentials.connection("reddit", "main"), "User-Agent": "clickruntime-digest/1.0"}
    sections = []
    for sub in ["MachineLearning", "LocalLLaMA"]:
        posts = [c["data"] for c in http.get(f"https://oauth.reddit.com/r/{sub}/hot", headers=headers,
                 params={"limit": 12}).json()["data"]["children"] if not c["data"]["stickied"]][:10]
        listing = "\n".join(f"{i}. {p['title']} | {p['selftext'][:300]}" for i, p in enumerate(posts, 1))
        summaries = ai.generate("Give a one-line summary for each numbered post, keeping the numbers.\n\n" + listing, max_output_tokens=600).text.strip().splitlines()
        lines = [f"{s}\nhttps://reddit.com{p['permalink']}" for s, p in zip(summaries, posts)]
        sections.append(f"r/{sub}\n" + "\n".join(lines))
    notify.email_me("Hot on Reddit this morning", "\n\n".join(sections))
    return {"subs": 2}

FAQ

Common questions

What counts as a hot post on Reddit?

Hot is Reddit's own ranking, which weighs upvotes against age so that popular and recent posts rank highest. The digest takes the top results from each subreddit you list, and the number per subreddit can be set to keep the email short.

Can the digest include comments as well?

It can. For the top posts, the most upvoted comments can be fetched and summarized too, which captures the discussion and not just the headline. That makes the email longer, so many people include comments only for a few threads. Say how many you want per post.

Does it work for private or restricted subreddits?

Only public subreddits are reachable without membership. Private communities need an account with access, and Reddit limits what the API returns for them. Stick to public communities for the digest. The digest is built from whichever public communities you name.

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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