On a schedule

Send new Reddit images to Telegram

New image posts from your chosen subreddits arrive in Telegram as photos with their title and link.

Runs: On a schedule
Apps: Reddit, Telegram
AI: Not needed
Access: Reddit read; bot token

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every hour, check r/EarthPorn and r/architecture for new image posts and send each one to my Telegram as a photo with its title.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

Designers, photographers and content curators collect inspiration from image subreddits. Scrolling to find the new posts is slow, and saving them across devices is fiddly.

Sending each new image to Telegram builds a running collection on your phone, searchable by title and easy to forward, without visiting Reddit.

What you get out of it

A feed of inspiration
New images arrive as photos you can scroll through in Telegram whenever you have a moment.
Saved across devices
Telegram keeps the images on your phone and desktop, so your collection is everywhere.
Only images
Text posts and links are skipped, so the chat stays a clean visual feed.
No duplicates
Each post is sent once, even if it stays near the top for days.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Every hour ClickRuntime checks the newest posts in the subreddits you chose.
It keeps only posts that are images and that it has not sent before.
Each image is sent to your Telegram chat as a photo with its title and link.

Before it runs live

Connect Reddit
Connect Telegram

What you get

RunsOn a schedule

Send new Reddit images to Telegramtoday, 9:00Succeeded

Telegram · Your bot📷 Morning fog over the fjord, Norway [4032×3024] redd.it/1abcd2

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
Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
Combine it with other Reddit and Telegram 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.

save_new_reddit_images_and_notify_on_telegram.pyexample

from clickruntime import on_trigger, report_fetched, credentials, http, state

SUBS, CHAT = ["EarthPorn", "architecture"], 123456789

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"]]

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    seen = set(state.get("seen") or [])
    images = [p for s in SUBS for p in reddit(f"/r/{s}/new", limit=25)
              if p["id"] not in seen and p.get("post_hint") == "image"]
    report_fetched(len(images))
    if not images:
        return {"sent": 0}
    bot = f"https://api.telegram.org/bot{credentials.secret('TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN')}/sendPhoto"
    for p in images:
        http.post(bot, json={"chat_id": CHAT, "photo": p["url"], "caption": f"{p['title'][:900]}\nhttps://redd.it/{p['id']}"})
    state.set("seen", (list(seen) + [p["id"] for p in images])[-3000:])
    return {"sent": len(images)}

FAQ

Common questions

Does it save the full-size image?

Telegram receives the image from Reddit and stores it in the chat. Very large images may be compressed by Telegram.

Does it work with galleries?

This version sends single-image posts. Galleries can be added, sending each image in turn.

Can it go to a channel?

Yes. Add your bot to a channel to build a shared inspiration feed.

What permissions does it need?

Reddit read; bot token. Nothing else in your accounts is used.

Does it need AI?

No. It runs without AI, so it doesn't use your plan's AI allowance.

How many runs does it use?

One run each time it runs (on a schedule). 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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