Hourly
Find Reddit leads and log them in a sheet
Posts from people asking for a product like yours are added to your sheet every hour, scored and with a suggested reply.
- Runs
- Hourly
- 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 hour, search Reddit for people asking for scheduling software or a Calendly alternative. Score each post for fit, draft a helpful reply, and add good matches to my Leads sheet.
First time? Adding ClickRuntime to your assistant takes about two minutes.
Why use it
Why teams use this automation
When someone asks Reddit "what tool should I use for this?", they are a buyer actively looking. Those posts are some of the warmest leads available to a small software company, but they are scattered across dozens of subreddits and go cold within a day.
Searching every hour and logging good matches in a sheet means your team sees these requests while they are fresh. The fit score and suggested reply help someone respond helpfully in minutes.
What you get out of it
Reach buyers while they are looking
Posts are found within the hour, while the person is still reading replies and deciding.
Focus on the best fits
Each post gets a fit score, so your team answers the most promising ones first.
Helpful replies, faster
A suggested reply gives a starting point that answers the question, which goes down far better on Reddit than a sales pitch.
A shared lead list
Everyone works from the same sheet and can mark which posts they replied to.
How it works
What happens, step by step
Every hour ClickRuntime searches Reddit for new posts matching your search terms.
It skips posts it has already checked.
AI scores how well each post fits your product and drafts a helpful reply.
Good matches are added to your Leads sheet with the score, reply and link.
Before it runs live
- Connect your Google Sheets account and pick the spreadsheets it may use
- Connect Reddit
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
- 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
from google.oauth2.credentials import Credentials
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from clickruntime import on_trigger, report_fetched, credentials, http, state, ai
QUERY = '"recommend" scheduling software OR "calendly alternative"'
SHEET_ID, RANGE = "your-spreadsheet-id", "Leads!A:E"
SCHEMA = {"type": "object", "required": ["score", "reply"], "properties": {"score": {"type": "integer"}, "reply": {"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):
seen = set(state.get("seen") or [])
posts = [p for p in reddit("/search", q=QUERY, sort="new", t="day", limit=25) if p["id"] not in seen]
report_fetched(len(posts))
if not posts:
return {"leads": 0}
rows = []
for p in posts:
r = ai.generate(f"{p['title']}\n{p['selftext'][:1500]}", json_schema=SCHEMA, max_output_tokens=250,
system="Our product: simple appointment booking for small teams. Score fit 1-5 and draft a short, helpful, non-salesy reply.").json
if r["score"] >= 4:
rows.append([p["created_utc"], p["subreddit"], p["title"], r["score"], r["reply"], "https://reddit.com" + p["permalink"]])
if rows:
append_rows(rows)
state.set("seen", (list(seen) + [p["id"] for p in posts])[-2000:])
return {"checked": len(posts), "leads": len(rows)}FAQ
Common questions
Does it reply on Reddit for me?
How does the fit score work?
What search terms should I use?
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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