Daily

Get a daily Reddit trend digest in Slack

Each morning your team gets a short Slack summary of what is trending in the subreddits you follow.

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

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every weekday at 9am, take the top posts of the day from r/SaaS and r/startups, summarise the main trends in a few bullet points with links, and post it to #market-intel.

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

Product and marketing teams want to know what their market is talking about, and Reddit is often where it starts. But nobody has time to read several subreddits daily, and links dropped in Slack by one keen colleague come and go with their free time.

A daily digest in a team channel gives everyone the same short view of what is trending. It becomes a habit to skim, and the occasional important thread is discussed the day it happens.

What you get out of it

The whole team sees the same signal
Everyone reads the same summary, so conversations start from shared context.
Trends, not just links
AI groups the day's top posts into themes, which is quicker to read than a list of titles.
No one has to curate
The digest arrives every day without anyone remembering to post it.
Easy to dig deeper
Every point links to its thread, so people can read the discussion when something matters.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Every weekday morning ClickRuntime reads the day's top posts from the subreddits you chose.
AI groups them into a few trends and writes a short point on each, with links.
The digest is posted to your Slack channel, such as #market-intel.

Before it runs live

Connect Reddit
Connect Slack, then invite the app to the channel (type /invite @ClickRuntime there)

What you get

RunsDaily

Get a daily Reddit trend digest in Slacktoday, 9:00Succeeded

Slack · #market-intelReddit trends today • Founders comparing usage-based pricing after Northwind's switch (reddit.com/r/SaaS/…) • Several threads on cold email deliverability dropping

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 Google Sheets
Combine it with other Reddit and Slack 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_reddit_trend_digest_in_slack.pyexample

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

SUBS = ["SaaS", "startups"]

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):
    posts = [p for s in SUBS for p in reddit(f"/r/{s}/top", t="day", limit=15)]
    listing = "\n".join(f"- {p['title']} ({p['score']} upvotes) https://reddit.com{p['permalink']}" for p in posts)
    digest = ai.generate(listing, max_output_tokens=500,
                         system="Summarise the main trends in 3-6 short Slack bullet points, each with one link.").text
    notify.slack(f"Reddit trends today\n{digest}", channel="#market-intel")
    return {"posts": len(posts)}

FAQ

Common questions

How long is the digest?

Three to six bullet points, each with a link. You can ask for more or fewer.

Can I follow different subreddits for different channels?

Yes. Set up one automation per channel, each with its own subreddit list.

Does it include images or memes?

Only if they are among the top discussions. You can ask it to focus on text discussions.

What permissions does it need?

Reddit read; Slack chat:write. 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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