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Get daily social post drafts from Reddit trends

Each morning you get an email with today's trending Reddit topics in your niche and a ready-to-edit social post for each.

Runs
Daily
Apps
Gmail, Reddit
AI
Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
Access
Reddit read; Gmail gmail.send

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every morning at 7am, look at today's top posts in r/fitness and r/running, and email me three social post drafts based on what people are talking about.

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

First time? Adding ClickRuntime to your assistant takes about two minutes.

Why use it

Why teams use this automation

Coaches, creators and small brands want their social posts to feel current, but keeping up with what their audience is talking about takes time. Reddit's daily top posts show it clearly, if you have time to read them.

An email with today's topics and a ready draft for each gives you something timely to post in minutes. You choose what to use, edit it in your voice and post it.

What you get out of it

  • Timely posts, fast

    Drafts are based on what people are discussing today, so your posts feel current.

  • Start from a draft

    Each topic comes with a draft post, so you edit rather than write from scratch.

  • Stay close to your audience

    Reading the topic list each morning keeps you aware of what your niche cares about.

  • Fits your morning routine

    Everything arrives in one email before your day starts.

How it works

What happens, step by step

  1. Every morning ClickRuntime reads today's top posts from the subreddits you chose.

  2. AI picks the three most interesting topics and writes a social post draft for each.

  3. The topics, drafts and thread links are emailed to you from your Gmail.

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

RunsDaily
Get daily social post drafts from Reddit trendstoday, 9:00Succeeded
Email · Today's post ideas from Reddit1. Runners debating whether easy runs are 'too slow' Draft: If your easy run feels embarrassingly slow, you're probably doing it right…

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
  • 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

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.
trending_reddit_topics_turned_into_post_drafts_by_email.pyexample
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 = ["fitness", "running"], "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="day", limit=15)]
    listing = "\n".join(f"- {p['title']} ({p['score']} upvotes) https://reddit.com{p['permalink']}" for p in posts)
    drafts = ai.generate(listing, max_output_tokens=900,
                         system="Pick 3 trending topics. For each: the topic, the thread link, and an Instagram caption draft for a running coach.").text
    send_email("Today's post ideas from Reddit", drafts)
    return {"topics": len(posts)}

FAQ

Common questions

Which networks are the drafts written for?
Whichever you name in the prompt, such as Instagram captions, LinkedIn posts or X posts. The length and style follow that network.
Does it post anything?
No. Drafts arrive by email for you to edit and post yourself.
Can it include the Reddit link?
Yes, each topic in the email links to the thread so you can read the discussion.
What permissions does it need?
Reddit read; Gmail gmail.send. Nothing else in your accounts is used.
Does it need AI?
Yes. It uses ClickRuntime's built-in AI, so you don't need an OpenAI or Anthropic key. Every plan includes a monthly AI allowance.
How many runs does it use?
One run each time it runs (daily). 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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