Daily or weekly
Get a digest of the best Reddit discussions
A short summary of the best discussions in your favourite subreddits lands in your inbox each week.
- Runs
- Daily or weekly
- Apps
- Gmail, Reddit
- AI
- Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
- Access
- Reddit read; Gmail gmail.send
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Create a ClickRuntime automation: every Friday at 5pm, take the top discussions of the week from r/datascience and r/MachineLearning, summarise the five best, and email me the digest.
First time? Adding ClickRuntime to your assistant takes about two minutes.
Why use it
Why teams use this automation
Subreddits are some of the best places to keep up with a field, but they move fast and are full of noise. Checking in daily is a time sink, and checking in rarely means missing the threads everyone in the field is talking about.
A weekly digest of the most discussed threads, summarised in a few lines each, gives you the highlights without the scrolling. Some people forward it to their team or use it as the basis of a newsletter.
What you get out of it
The highlights, not the noise
Threads are ranked by upvotes and comments, so the digest covers what the community found most valuable.
Summaries you can skim
Each thread is boiled down to the main point and any strong opinions in the comments, so you know whether to open it.
A ready-made newsletter
The digest is easy to forward to a team or adapt into a newsletter for your own audience.
Less time on Reddit
One email a week replaces daily check-ins without losing touch with your field.
How it works
What happens, step by step
Every Friday ClickRuntime reads the week's top posts from the subreddits you chose.
It ranks them by upvotes and comments and keeps the best.
AI summarises each one in a few lines.
The digest is emailed from your Gmail to you or your team.
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
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 Gmail and Reddit steps into one automation
Under the hood
The code that runs this automation
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, ai
SUBS, ME = ["datascience", "MachineLearning"], "me@example.com"
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):
posts = [p for s in SUBS for p in reddit(f"/r/{s}/top", t="week", limit=25)]
best = sorted(posts, key=lambda p: p["score"] + 3 * p["num_comments"], reverse=True)[:8]
listing = "\n\n".join(f"{p['title']} (r/{p['subreddit']}, {p['num_comments']} comments)\n{p['selftext'][:800]}\nhttps://reddit.com{p['permalink']}" for p in best)
digest = ai.generate(listing, max_output_tokens=1000,
system="Write a weekly digest of the 5 best discussions: a bold title, 2-3 sentence summary and link for each.").text
send_email("Your weekly Reddit digest", digest)
return {"threads": len(best)}FAQ
Common questions
Can I get it daily instead of weekly?
How are the best discussions chosen?
Can I send it to my team?
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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