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Turn trending Reddit topics into content ideas
Each day the top discussions in your niche's subreddits become post ideas and drafts in your content 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, look at the top posts of the day in r/personalfinance and r/financialindependence, and add three content ideas with a draft hook for each to my Content sheet.
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Why use it
Why teams use this automation
Content creators and marketers are always short of ideas that their audience actually cares about. Reddit's top posts show what people in a niche are talking about today, but turning a busy thread into a usable content angle takes time and a habit of checking.
Turning each day's top discussions into ideas with a ready hook fills your content sheet with timely angles. When it is time to plan the week, the ideas are already waiting.
What you get out of it
Ideas your audience cares about
Ideas come from what your niche is actively discussing, so they are more likely to land than guesses.
A head start on writing
Each idea comes with a draft hook, so you start from a first line rather than a blank page.
A content sheet that never runs dry
New ideas arrive every day, giving you plenty to choose from when planning.
Linked to the source
Each idea links to the thread it came from, so you can read the discussion for detail and quotes.
How it works
What happens, step by step
Every morning ClickRuntime reads the day's top posts from the subreddits you chose.
AI picks the most promising discussions and suggests a content idea and an opening line for each.
The ideas are added to your content sheet with the date and a link to the thread.
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 datetime import date
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, ai
SUBS, SHEET_ID, RANGE = ["personalfinance", "financialindependence"], "your-spreadsheet-id", "Ideas!A:D"
SCHEMA = {"type": "object", "properties": {"ideas": {"type": "array", "items": {"type": "object",
"properties": {"n": {"type": "integer"}, "idea": {"type": "string"}, "hook": {"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):
posts = [p for s in SUBS for p in reddit(f"/r/{s}/top", t="day", limit=15)]
listing = "\n".join(f"{i}. {p['title']} ({p['score']} upvotes, {p['num_comments']} comments)" for i, p in enumerate(posts))
ideas = ai.generate(listing, json_schema=SCHEMA, max_output_tokens=600,
system="Pick 3 discussions and suggest a content idea and a one-line hook for a personal finance blog.").json["ideas"]
rows = [[date.today().isoformat(), i["idea"], i["hook"], "https://reddit.com" + posts[i["n"]]["permalink"]]
for i in ideas if 0 <= i["n"] < len(posts)]
append_rows(rows)
return {"ideas": len(rows)}FAQ
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