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Get a daily email of Reddit brand mentions

Each day you get one email listing every Reddit mention of your brand, with its sentiment and a link.

Runs
Daily
Apps
Gmail, Reddit
AI
Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
Access
Reddit read; Gmail gmail.send

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every morning at 8am, find yesterday's Reddit posts mentioning Acme Analytics, rate each as positive, neutral or negative, and email me the list with links.

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

Founders and marketers want to know what people say about their brand on Reddit, where opinions are blunt and often rank highly in search. Checking manually is easy to forget, and a monitoring tool can be more than a small company needs.

One daily email with every mention and its sentiment is enough to stay informed. You can reply to complaints, thank fans and notice trends, without checking Reddit every day.

What you get out of it

  • Nothing slips by

    Every mention from the last day is listed, so you are never surprised by a thread a prospect brings up.

  • Sentiment at a glance

    Each mention is marked positive, neutral or negative, so you know where to look first.

  • One email, once a day

    A single daily summary keeps you informed without constant alerts.

  • Material for the team

    Positive mentions are useful for marketing and negative ones for product, and the email is easy to forward.

How it works

What happens, step by step

  1. Every morning ClickRuntime searches Reddit for posts from the last day that mention your brand.

  2. It skips posts already reported in an earlier email.

  3. AI rates each mention as positive, neutral or negative.

  4. The list, with sentiment and links, is emailed to you from your Gmail.

Before it runs live

  • Connect Google through your own Google app (a one-time, 10-minute setup), so it works with your own Gmail
  • Connect Reddit

What you get

RunsDaily
Get a daily email of Reddit brand mentionstoday, 9:00Succeeded
Email · Reddit mentions: 3 yesterday[negative] Acme Analytics dashboard keeps timing out (r/analytics) [positive] Switched from spreadsheets to Acme Analytics, never going back (r/smallbusiness)

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 Gmail 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.
reddit_brand_mentions_with_sentiment_by_email.pyexample
import base64
from email.message import EmailMessage
from google.oauth2.credentials import Credentials
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, state, ai

QUERY, ME = '"Acme Analytics"', "me@example.com"
SCHEMA = {"type": "object", "properties": {"labels": {"type": "array", "items": {"enum": ["positive", "neutral", "negative"]}}}}

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 send_email(subject, text):
    msg = EmailMessage()
    msg["To"], msg["Subject"] = ME, subject
    msg.set_content(text)
    gmail = build("gmail", "v1", credentials=Credentials(credentials.connection("google", "work")), cache_discovery=False)
    gmail.users().messages().send(userId="me", body={"raw": base64.urlsafe_b64encode(msg.as_bytes()).decode()}).execute()

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    seen = set(state.get("seen") or [])
    posts = [p for p in reddit("/search", q=QUERY, sort="new", t="day", limit=50) if p["id"] not in seen]
    if not posts:
        send_email("Reddit mentions: none yesterday", "No new Reddit posts mentioned Acme Analytics.")
        return {"mentions": 0}
    listing = "\n".join(f"{i}. {p['title']} | {p['selftext'][:300]}" for i, p in enumerate(posts))
    labels = ai.generate(listing, json_schema=SCHEMA, max_output_tokens=200,
                         system="Give the sentiment toward Acme Analytics for each numbered post, in order.").json["labels"]
    lines = [f"[{l}] {p['title']} (r/{p['subreddit']})\nhttps://reddit.com{p['permalink']}" for p, l in zip(posts, labels)]
    send_email(f"Reddit mentions: {len(lines)} yesterday", "\n\n".join(lines))
    state.set("seen", (list(seen) + [p["id"] for p in posts])[-2000:])
    return {"mentions": len(lines)}

FAQ

Common questions

Does it find mentions in comments?
This version searches posts. Comment mentions can be added, at the cost of more Reddit requests and AI use.
What if my brand name is a common word?
Add a second word to the search, such as your product category, or list words to exclude, so unrelated posts are skipped.
What if there are no mentions?
You get a short email saying there were none, so you know it ran.
What permissions does it need?
Reddit read; Gmail gmail.send. 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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