Every 5 minutes
Get Telegram alerts for replies to your Reddit posts
Every 5 minutes ClickRuntime checks your Reddit inbox and forwards new replies, mentions and messages to Telegram with the text and a link.
- Runs
- Every 5 minutes
- Apps
- Reddit, Telegram
- AI
- Not needed
- Access
- Reddit user-created app (OAuth, privatemessages, read); bot token
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Create a ClickRuntime automation: every 5 minutes, check my Reddit inbox for new replies to my posts and comments, username mentions and private messages, and forward each to my Telegram with the author, subreddit, text and a link.
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Why use it
Why teams use this automation
Reddit's own notifications are unreliable on many phones and easy to switch off by accident. If you posted a question, a guide or a product announcement, the useful replies come in the first few hours and you want to answer them while the thread is active.
This automation checks your Reddit inbox every 5 minutes and forwards each new reply, username mention and private message to Telegram, with the text and a link to the thread.
It suits founders posting launches, people running a community and active redditors who prefer Telegram's notifications.
What you get out of it
Replies while the thread is live
Answering early keeps a conversation going and your post visible.
The full text in the message
You can read the reply in Telegram and decide whether to open Reddit.
Mentions included
When someone tags your username in another thread, you hear about it too.
Your Reddit inbox untouched
Nothing is marked read, so Reddit still shows what you have not opened.
One less app pinging you
Turn off Reddit's push notifications and keep everything in Telegram.
How it works
What happens, step by step
Every 5 minutes, ClickRuntime reads the unread items in your Reddit inbox with your Reddit connection.
It skips anything it has already forwarded.
Each new reply, mention or message arrives on Telegram with who wrote it, where, the text and a link to the thread.
Items stay unread on Reddit, so your inbox there is unchanged.
Before it runs live
- Connect Reddit
- Connect Telegram
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
- Act only on the items that match your own rules, and skip the rest
- Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
- 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
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, state
CHAT_ID = "123456789"
ICONS = {"comment reply": "↩️ Reply", "post reply": "↩️ Reply to your post", "username mention": "📣 Mention"}
def tg(method, **params):
r = http.post(f"https://api.telegram.org/bot{credentials.secret('TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN')}/{method}", json=params)
r.raise_for_status()
return r.json()["result"]
@on_trigger
def run(event):
r = http.get("https://oauth.reddit.com/message/unread", params={"limit": 50, "raw_json": 1},
headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {credentials.connection('reddit', 'work')}", "User-Agent": "inbox-to-telegram/1.0"})
r.raise_for_status()
seen = set(state.get("seen") or [])
items = [c["data"] for c in r.json()["data"]["children"]]
sent = 0
for d in reversed(items):
if d["name"] in seen:
continue
seen.add(d["name"])
kind = ICONS.get(d.get("subject"), "✉️ Message") if d.get("was_comment") else "✉️ Message"
where = f" in r/{d['subreddit']}" if d.get("subreddit") else ""
link = f"https://reddit.com{d['context']}" if d.get("context") else "https://www.reddit.com/message/unread/"
tg("sendMessage", chat_id=CHAT_ID, disable_web_page_preview=True,
text=f"{kind} from u/{d.get('author')}{where}\n\"{d['body'][:500]}\"\n{link}")
sent += 1
state.set("seen", list(seen)[-1000:])
return {"forwarded": sent}
FAQ
Common questions
Will it mark my Reddit messages as read?
Does it include chat messages?
Can I skip replies on old posts?
What permissions does it need?
Does it need AI?
How many runs does it use?
Can I change how it works?
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