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Find Reddit threads where your videos would help

Each day you get Reddit threads where one of your YouTube videos would genuinely help, with a suggested comment, tracked in a sheet.

Runs
Daily
Apps
Google Sheets, Reddit
AI
Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
Access
Reddit read; sheet edit

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Create a ClickRuntime automation: every morning, search Reddit for questions about home espresso, match them to my YouTube videos listed in my sheet, draft a helpful comment for each match, log it in my sheet and email me the list.

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

YouTube creators know their best tutorials answer questions people ask on Reddit every day. Sharing a video in the right thread can bring hundreds of interested viewers, but finding those threads, and writing a comment that helps rather than spams, takes time few creators have.

Matching new Reddit questions to your existing videos, with a drafted comment that answers the question first, gives you a short daily list of places where sharing is welcome. Logging each one stops you posting in the same thread twice.

What you get out of it

  • Old videos keep finding viewers

    Tutorials made months ago are matched to new questions, so your back catalogue keeps bringing in viewers.

  • Comments that help first

    Each drafted comment answers the question directly and offers the video as extra help, which communities accept far more readily than a bare link.

  • A short list, not a search

    You get a handful of relevant threads each day instead of searching Reddit yourself.

  • A record of where you posted

    The sheet tracks every thread and video, so you never repeat yourself in a community.

How it works

What happens, step by step

  1. Every morning ClickRuntime searches Reddit for new questions on your topics.

  2. It skips threads already in your sheet.

  3. AI matches each question to one of your videos and drafts a helpful comment, or skips it if nothing fits.

  4. Matches are added to your sheet and emailed to you as a short list.

Before it runs live

  • Connect your Google Sheets account and pick the spreadsheets it may use
  • Connect Reddit

What you get

RunsDaily
Find Reddit threads where your videos would helptoday, 9:00Succeeded
Email · Reddit threads for your videosr/espresso · "Shots running way too fast with my new grinder?" Suggested comment: Try going 3–4 steps finer and weigh your dose… I walk through it here: youtu.be/…

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 Google Sheets and 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.
promote_my_videos_on_relevant_reddit_threads.pyexample
from google.oauth2.credentials import Credentials
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, state, ai, notify

TOPICS, SHEET_ID, RANGE = ["espresso grinder", "espresso dialing in"], "your-spreadsheet-id", "Threads!A:D"
SCHEMA = {"type": "object", "required": ["video", "comment"], "properties": {"video": {"type": "string"}, "comment": {"type": "string"}}}

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"]]

def append_rows(rows):
    sheets = build("sheets", "v4", credentials=Credentials(credentials.connection("google", "work")), cache_discovery=False)
    sheets.spreadsheets().values().append(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, range=RANGE, valueInputOption="RAW", body={"values": rows}).execute()

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    sheets = build("sheets", "v4", credentials=Credentials(credentials.connection("google", "work")), cache_discovery=False)
    videos = sheets.spreadsheets().values().get(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, range="Videos!A2:B").execute().get("values", [])
    seen = set(state.get("seen") or [])
    posts = [p for t in TOPICS for p in reddit("/search", q=t, sort="new", t="day", limit=15) if p["id"] not in seen]
    rows = []
    for p in posts:
        m = ai.generate(f"Videos:\n{videos}\n\nQuestion: {p['title']}\n{p['selftext'][:800]}", json_schema=SCHEMA, max_output_tokens=250,
                        system="Pick the video URL that answers this, or 'none'. Draft a comment that answers first, then mentions the video.").json
        if m["video"] != "none":
            rows.append([p["subreddit"], "https://reddit.com" + p["permalink"], m["video"], m["comment"]])
    if rows:
        append_rows(rows)
        notify.email_me(f"{len(rows)} Reddit threads for your videos", "\n\n".join(f"{r[1]}\n{r[3]}" for r in rows))
    state.set("seen", (list(seen) + [p["id"] for p in posts])[-2000:])
    return {"matches": len(rows)}

FAQ

Common questions

Does it post comments for me?
No. You review each suggested comment and post it yourself, following each community's rules on self-promotion.
How does it know which video fits?
You list your videos with a short description in a sheet tab. AI matches each question to the most relevant one, or skips it if none fits.
How many threads will I get?
Usually a few a day, depending on your topics. Only threads with a clear match are included.
What permissions does it need?
Reddit read; sheet edit. 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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