The moment it happens
Get a report on what Reddit says about a topic
You send a keyword and get back the mood, common complaints and product ideas from a month of posts and comments.
- Runs
- The moment it happens
- Apps
- AI
- Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
- Access
- read
Send this to your assistant
Create a ClickRuntime automation: give me a link I can send a keyword to. Pull Reddit posts and their top comments about it from the last 30 days, and email me the overall sentiment, the five most common complaints and three product ideas.
First time? Adding ClickRuntime to your assistant takes about two minutes.
Why use it
Why teams use this automation
Before building a feature, entering a market or writing a positioning page, people want to know what a community actually thinks. Reddit has years of honest opinions on almost any topic, but reading hundreds of threads to find the pain points takes days, and a quick skim tends to confirm whatever you already believed.
When you ask for a report on a topic, ClickRuntime searches posts by keyword or subreddit, fetches the top comments from the best-performing threads, and uses built-in AI to analyze sentiment, recurring pain points and ideas people suggest. It emails you a markdown report with the findings and links back to the discussions.
Product managers, marketers and founders doing early research get a structured starting point in minutes instead of days, with enough structure to decide what to dig into next.
What you get out of it
Research starts from real voices
Reddit users write candidly because they are anonymous. A report built from their words shows frustrations that surveys and interviews often soften or miss. That honesty is hard to get from an interview with a polite customer.
Pain points are ranked by how often they come up
Themes mentioned across many threads are more reliable than a single vivid complaint. Counting repeated issues points you toward problems worth solving. You see which problems are widespread and which are one-off.
Ideas come from users themselves
Comments often include workarounds, wishes and the names of tools people use today. These show unmet needs and potential competitors you may not have known about. Those details are cheap to collect and valuable for planning.
Sentiment gives a quick read
Knowing whether discussion of a topic is mostly positive, negative or mixed helps you judge how crowded or contested a space is before you invest time. It tells you how heated a market is before you commit.
Links let you verify the findings
Each theme points back to the threads behind it, so you can read the original comments yourself. That keeps the summary honest and lets you quote real people. Nothing in the report has to be taken on faith.
How it works
What happens, step by step
When you send a topic to the automation's private link (or once a week, if you schedule it), ClickRuntime searches Reddit for posts about it, across all of Reddit or in the subreddits you name.
It collects the top posts and their most upvoted comments.
AI reads them and works out the overall mood, the main themes, the top complaints and ideas worth acting on.
You get the report by email.
Before it runs live
- Connect Reddit
- Paste your automation's link into the other app's webhook settings
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
- 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 steps into one automation
Under the hood
The code that runs this automation
from clickruntime import on_event, notify, http, credentials, ai
API = "https://oauth.reddit.com"
@on_event
def handle(event):
keyword = (event.json or {}).get("keyword", "").strip()
if not keyword:
return {"report": False}
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer " + credentials.connection("reddit", "main"), "User-Agent": "clickruntime-insights/1.0"}
posts = http.get(f"{API}/search", headers=headers, params={"q": keyword, "sort": "top", "t": "month", "limit": 15}).json()["data"]["children"]
chunks = []
for p in posts:
post = p["data"]
thread = http.get(f"{API}/comments/{post['id']}", headers=headers, params={"sort": "top", "limit": 5, "depth": 1}).json()
comments = [c["data"].get("body", "")[:300] for c in thread[1]["data"]["children"] if c["kind"] == "t1"]
chunks.append(f"POST: {post['title']}\n{post['selftext'][:500]}\nCOMMENTS: " + " | ".join(comments))
report = ai.generate(
f"These are Reddit posts about '{keyword}' from the last 30 days. Give the overall sentiment, "
"the five most common complaints, and three product ideas.\n\n" + "\n\n".join(chunks),
max_output_tokens=800,
).text
notify.email_me(f"Reddit insights: {keyword}", report)
return {"posts": len(posts)}FAQ
Common questions
How many posts and comments does a report cover?
Can I get a report on a specific subreddit?
How should I treat the sentiment results?
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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