Daily Reddit Scraper

19 min setup
No coding required
Runs automatically

Pull fresh Reddit posts and comments from your favorite subreddits every day. This template grabs new content from specified communities and sends the data to Slack. Perfect for tracking brand mentions, monitoring competitors, researching trends, or gathering user feedback. Set it once and receive daily updates without manually browsing Reddit.

How it works

7 steps to start finding relevant Reddit posts and getting Slack alerts daily

Schedule

App connector: [Schedule](/content/apps/schedule/integrate "View Schedule integration page"/index.html) • Time to complete: 1 minute

Why this matters: This trigger runs Reddit monitoring on a consistent daily schedule, ensuring you capture new discussions regularly without manual checking and enabling timely engagement when conversations are active. Customization: You can adjust the schedule to run multiple times per day for more active monitoring or reduce frequency for less active subreddits.

Get List of Subreddit's Posts

App connector: [Reddit](/content/apps/reddit/integrate "View Reddit integration page"/index.html) • Time to complete: 3 minutes

Why this matters: Retrieves recent posts from your target subreddit where your potential customers or relevant discussions are happening, providing the raw data for AI analysis to identify engagement opportunities.

Configuration: You must configure the subreddit URL or name during setup—specify which subreddit to monitor (like "r/ecommerce", "r/shopify", or whatever community is relevant to your domain). The sort_by parameter is set to "New" to prioritize recent posts where engagement is most valuable. The step returns an array of posts as {{reddit}} with each post containing title, description, url, author, score, and other metadata.

Loop Through Posts

App connector: [Loop](/content/apps/loop/integrate "View Loop integration page"/index.html) • Time to complete: 0 minutes (Auto-configured)

Why this matters: Processes each Reddit post individually through AI analysis, enabling per-post relevance evaluation that determines which discussions warrant team attention and engagement.

Prompt (AI Relevance Analysis)

App connector: [AI](/content/apps/ai/integrate "View AI integration page"/index.html) • Time to complete: 10 minutes

Why this matters: Uses AI to intelligently evaluate whether each post represents a genuine business opportunity by analyzing semantic meaning, keyword matches, and engagement fit rather than simple keyword matching that produces false positives.

Clean AI Response

App connector: [Code](/content/apps/custom/integrate "View Code integration page"/index.html) • Time to complete: 0 minutes (Auto-configured)

Why this matters: Ensures the AI's JSON response is clean and parseable by removing markdown code fences that sometimes wrap AI outputs, preventing filter failures from malformed data.

Filter: Keep Relevant Posts Only

App connector: [Filter](/content/apps/filter/integrate "View Filter integration page"/index.html) • Time to complete: 0 minutes (Auto-configured)

Why this matters: Acts as the decision gate that ensures only posts AI marked as relevant trigger Slack notifications, preventing noise from irrelevant discussions and focusing team attention on genuine opportunities.

Send Slack Notification

App connector: [Slack](/content/apps/slack/integrate "View Slack integration page"/index.html) • Time to complete: 2 minutes

Why this matters: Delivers curated Reddit opportunities to your team with context, matched keywords, and actionable integration ideas, enabling quick evaluation and engagement decisions.

Frequently asked questions

How do I choose good keywords for my domain?

Start with 5-10 core terms your target audience uses when discussing problems you solve (not your product names). Include variations (singular/plural), common misspellings, and industry jargon. Test and refine based on initial results—remove keywords generating false positives, add keywords from relevant posts you find manually.

Can I make the AI more or less strict about relevance?

Yes, edit the AI prompt to adjust evaluation criteria. Add phrases like "only mark relevant if there's a direct mention of [specific pain point]" for stricter filtering, or "consider posts broadly related to [topic]" for looser matching. You can also adjust the confidence threshold in filtering.

What if I want to engage with posts automatically instead of just getting alerts?

Add steps after Slack that use Reddit's API to post comments. However, be cautious—automated engagement can appear spammy. Better approach: use the Slack notification's "Add Reaction" button workflow to trigger a reply workflow only when your team manually approves engagement.