reddit

What This Skill Does

The Reddit skill for OpenClaw empowers your AI agent to interact directly with the Reddit platform, ranging from casual browsing and data scraping to active community management. By leveraging Reddit's robust API, the skill provides a seamless interface for reading threads, tracking sentiment in specific subreddits, and performing automated moderation tasks. Whether you are a developer looking to monitor discussions, a content creator tracking trends, or a subreddit moderator needing to handle queues efficiently, this tool bridges the gap between your AI agent and the Reddit ecosystem. It supports both public, anonymous access for read-only operations and secure OAuth-based authentication for writing content or executing moderation commands.

Installation

To install this skill, use the following command within your OpenClaw environment: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/bobdevibecoder/bobagent-reddit

For advanced features like posting, replying, or moderation, you must first register a "script" app at https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps with a redirect URI of http://localhost:8080. Once registered, export your credentials (REDDIT_CLIENT_ID, REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET, REDDIT_USERNAME, and REDDIT_PASSWORD) as environment variables to enable authenticated access.

Use Cases

• Market Research & Sentiment Analysis: Automatically pull the latest posts from financial or tech subreddits to analyze community sentiment on specific topics.
• Content Aggregation: Monitor niche communities for new threads and compile digests for your daily briefing.
• Automated Moderation: Keep your subreddits clean by automating the removal of spam or approving high-quality contributions directly via your agent.
• Community Engagement: Draft and post regular discussion threads or reply to questions automatically based on your agent's knowledge base.

Example Prompts

1. "Find the top 5 posts from r/artificialintelligence today and summarize the main points for me."
2. "Search for the keyword 'OpenClaw' in all of Reddit and give me a list of the most recent mentions."
3. "Check the moderation queue for r/my-subreddit and approve all posts that don't contain banned keywords."

Tips & Limitations

• Rate Limits: Be mindful of Reddit's API limits. Unauthenticated requests are limited to roughly 10 per minute, while OAuth authenticated sessions allow for 60 requests per minute. Design your agent workflows to batch tasks where possible to avoid interruptions.
• Authentication: Always use the login command initially to generate and store your OAuth token at ~/.reddit-token.json. The system will handle automatic refreshes thereafter.
• Safety: Use moderation commands with caution, as automated actions cannot be undone without manual intervention in the Reddit UI. Always verify the THING_ID of the content you intend to manage before triggering bulk moderation scripts.