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Get a Reddit digest summarised in Telegram

The most popular posts from your subreddits are summarised by AI and sent to Telegram each day.

Runs
On a schedule
Apps
Reddit, Telegram
AI
Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
Access
Reddit read; bot token

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every evening at 7pm, take today's top posts with over 500 upvotes from r/homelab and r/selfhosted, summarise them, and send the digest to my Telegram.

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

Hobbyists and professionals follow subreddits to keep up with their interests, but the Reddit app pulls you into endless scrolling. A short digest of what was actually popular gives the value without the time sink.

Sending it to Telegram means it arrives as a message you can read in a minute, at the time you choose.

What you get out of it

  • The best posts only

    A minimum score filters out everything but the posts the community found most useful.

  • Read in a minute

    Each post is summarised in a line or two, so the whole digest is a quick read.

  • Less scrolling

    One message a day replaces opening the app and getting lost in it.

  • No repeats

    Posts already included are remembered, so a popular post that stays at the top is only sent once.

How it works

What happens, step by step

  1. Every evening ClickRuntime reads the day's top posts from the subreddits you chose.

  2. It keeps posts above your minimum score that it has not sent before.

  3. AI summarises each one in a line or two.

  4. The digest is sent to you in Telegram with links.

Before it runs live

  • Connect Reddit
  • Connect Telegram

What you get

RunsOn a schedule
Get a Reddit digest summarised in Telegramtoday, 9:00Succeeded
Telegram · Your botToday on Reddit • Someone ran a full home lab on three old laptops for a year: costs and lessons (redd.it/…) • Popular guide to backing up Docker volumes

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 Telegram 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.
digest_of_top_reddit_posts_summarised_on_telegram.pyexample
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, state, ai

SUBS, CHAT, MIN_SCORE = ["homelab", "selfhosted"], 123456789, 500

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 [])
    posts = [p for s in SUBS for p in reddit(f"/r/{s}/top", t="day", limit=25) if p["score"] >= MIN_SCORE and p["id"] not in seen]
    if not posts:
        return {"sent": 0}
    listing = "\n".join(f"- {p['title']} | {p['selftext'][:400]} | https://redd.it/{p['id']}" for p in posts)
    digest = ai.generate(listing, max_output_tokens=800, system="Summarise each post in one or two lines, keeping its link.").text
    http.post(f"https://api.telegram.org/bot{credentials.secret('TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN')}/sendMessage",
              json={"chat_id": CHAT, "text": f"Today on Reddit\n\n{digest}"[:4000]}).raise_for_status()
    state.set("seen", (list(seen) + [p["id"] for p in posts])[-2000:])
    return {"sent": len(posts)}

FAQ

Common questions

Can I get it weekly?
Yes. Ask your AI assistant to switch to weekly, and it will use the week's top posts.
Can it go to a group?
Yes. Add your bot to a Telegram group or channel and use its chat ID.
What is the minimum score for?
It sets how popular a post must be to be included, which keeps the digest short.
What permissions does it need?
Reddit read; bot token. 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 (on a schedule). 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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