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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

Send this to your assistant

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.

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

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

  1. Every 5 minutes, ClickRuntime reads the unread items in your Reddit inbox with your Reddit connection.

  2. It skips anything it has already forwarded.

  3. Each new reply, mention or message arrives on Telegram with who wrote it, where, the text and a link to the thread.

  4. Items stay unread on Reddit, so your inbox there is unchanged.

Before it runs live

  • Connect Reddit
  • Connect Telegram

What you get

RunsEvery 5 minutes
Get Telegram alerts for replies to your Reddit poststoday, 9:00Succeeded
Telegram · your bot↩️ Reply from u/kettlebell_kate in r/homegym "Which bands did you end up using for the pull-up assist? The link in your post is dead." https://reddit.com/r/homegym/comments/1gr…/…/lx9k2ab/?context=3

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

  • 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

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.
get_telegram_alerts_for_replies_to_your_reddit_posts.pyexample
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?
No. It only reads the inbox, so items stay unread on Reddit until you open them there.
Does it include chat messages?
No. Reddit chat is separate from the inbox and has no public API. Replies, username mentions and private messages are covered.
Can I skip replies on old posts?
Yes. Ask your assistant to ignore replies to posts older than a set number of days, or to ignore certain subreddits.
What permissions does it need?
Reddit user-created app (OAuth, privatemessages, read); bot token. Nothing else in your accounts is used.
Does it need AI?
No. It runs without AI, so it doesn't use your plan's AI allowance.
How many runs does it use?
One run each time it checks. Checks that find nothing new 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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