reddit-readonly

What This Skill Does

The reddit-readonly skill provides OpenClaw AI agents with the ability to safely interact with Reddit's public API to retrieve post metadata, comment threads, and search results. As a strictly read-only tool, it is designed for monitoring subreddits, researching topics, and curating lists of relevant discussions without the risk of unauthorized posting or interaction. It acts as an information retrieval layer that allows agents to synthesize Reddit data into actionable insights for the user.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your environment, use the OpenClaw command-line interface: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/buksan1950/reddit-readonly Ensure your agent has the necessary permissions to execute scripts from the node environment, as this skill relies on the provided .mjs executor to fetch and parse JSON data from Reddit endpoints.

Use Cases

• Market Research: Monitor specific subreddits for product feedback, trends, or community sentiment regarding your industry.
• Content Curation: Build a shortlist of high-quality discussions for a newsletter or a social media digest.
• Technical Support Assistance: Search for troubleshooting threads in technical communities (e.g., r/python or r/sysadmin) to provide users with existing solutions.
• Aggregated Monitoring: Use the find command to filter posts across multiple subreddits based on specific inclusion/exclusion criteria, saving time on manual browsing.

Example Prompts

1. "Check r/artificialintelligence for any posts about 'OpenAI' from the last 24 hours and give me a summary of the top 3."
2. "Search for 'fastapi deployment' in r/python and r/learnpython, excluding anything mentioning 'homework', and send me the permalinks to the most relevant threads."
3. "Look at the most recent comments in r/openclaw and let me know if anyone is asking about custom skills."

Tips & Limitations

• Read-Only Guarantee: This tool is physically incapable of posting, voting, or moderating content. You must manually perform any replies.
• Respect Rate Limits: Always use smaller limits (10-25) to avoid triggering Reddit's API rate limiting. If the script fails, try reducing the batch size.
• Permalink Protocol: Always verify the permalinks returned by the agent before trusting the content; prioritize threads with higher scores for context-heavy tasks.
• HTML Fallback: If the output contains unexpected HTML rather than JSON, simply re-run the request as the agent will handle transient network issues automatically.