Reddit Block

The Reddit block lets you retrieve posts and comments from any subreddit. Reach for it when a workflow needs to monitor, summarize, or react to Reddit content such as post titles, bodies, authors, scores, and comment threads.

Overview

When to Use

• Pull the latest hot, new, top, or rising posts from a subreddit for monitoring or research.
• Summarize trending discussions in a community over a specific time window (day, week, month, year, all time).
• Fetch the full comment thread for a known post to analyze sentiment or extract feedback.
• Feed Reddit content into a downstream Agent block for summarization or classification.
• Track mentions or topics across a subreddit on a recurring schedule.
• Extract community feedback or product mentions from targeted subreddits.

Configuration

Operation

Dropdown that selects which Reddit action to perform. This drives which other fields appear.

Reddit Account (credential)

OAuth credential for the Reddit account to authenticate with. Required. Requests the identity and read scopes from the connected Reddit account.

Subreddit (subreddit)

The subreddit name without the r/ prefix (e.g. programming, not r/programming). Required for both operations.

Sort By (sort) — Get Posts only

How to order the returned posts. Required when operation is get_posts.

Time Filter (time) — Get Posts, Top sort only

Narrows the time window when Sort By is set to top. Only shown when sort = top.

Max Posts (limit) — Get Posts only

Maximum number of posts to return. Defaults to 10; maximum 100. Optional.

Post ID (postId) — Get Comments only

The Reddit post ID whose comments should be fetched. Required when operation is get_comments.

Sort Comments By (commentSort) — Get Comments only

How to order the returned comments. Optional; defaults to confidence.

Number of Comments (commentLimit) — Get Comments only

Maximum number of comments to return. Defaults to 50; maximum 100. Optional.

Inputs & Outputs

• Inputs:

  • operation (string) — Operation to perform (get_posts or get_comments)
  • credential (string) — Reddit OAuth access token
  • subreddit (string) — Subreddit name (without r/ prefix)
  • sort (string) — Sort order for posts (hot, new, top, rising)
  • time (string) — Time filter for top posts (day, week, month, year, all)
  • limit (number) — Maximum number of posts to return
  • postId (string) — Post identifier for fetching comments
  • commentSort (string) — Comment sort order (confidence, top, new, controversial, old, random, qa)
  • commentLimit (number) — Maximum number of comments to return

• Outputs:

  • subreddit (string) — Subreddit name (populated by Get Posts)
  • posts (json) — Array of post objects with id, title, author, url, permalink, score, num_comments, created_utc, is_self, selftext, thumbnail, subreddit (populated by Get Posts)
  • post (json) — Single post object with id, title, author, selftext, score, created_utc, permalink (populated by Get Comments)
  • comments (json) — Nested array of comment objects with id, author, body, score, created_utc, permalink, replies (populated by Get Comments)

Tools

• Get Reddit Posts (reddit_get_posts) — Fetches posts from a subreddit via the Reddit OAuth API. Accepts subreddit, sort (hot/new/top/rising), optional limit (1–100, default 10), and optional time filter when sort is top. Returns subreddit name and a posts array.
• Get Reddit Comments (reddit_get_comments) — Fetches the comment thread for a specific Reddit post. Accepts postId, subreddit, optional sort (default confidence), and optional limit (1–100, default 50). Returns a post summary object and a nested comments array including replies.

YAML Example

reddit_1:
  type: reddit
  name: "Reddit"
  inputs:
    operation: "get_posts"
    credential: "{{credentials.reddit}}"
    subreddit: "programming"
    sort: "top"
    time: "week"
    limit: 10
  connections:
    outgoing:
      - target: agent_1