A high-performance Reddit search tool for AI agents that fetches real-time threads with engagement metrics and top comment excerpts.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install search-reddit
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install search-reddit using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
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Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Search Reddit?
The Search Reddit skill is designed to provide AI agents and developers with a robust interface for mining Reddit data. By utilizing the OpenAI Responses API and the web_search tool specifically restricted to the Reddit domain, it retrieves more than just basic URLs. This skill is a core component of the Openclaw Skills ecosystem, offering deep enrichment that includes upvote counts, comment volume, and curated excerpts from the most relevant discussions. It allows users to bypass generic search engine noise and tap directly into community-driven insights.
Whether you are tracking product feedback or researching technical solutions, this skill streamlines the process of data acquisition. By integrating these Openclaw Skills into your workflow, you can automate the discovery of high-signal information from one of the internet's largest discussion platforms with high precision and minimal latency.
Search Reddit Use Cases
- Tracking real-time community sentiment regarding new AI model releases or software updates.
- Curating high-engagement technical discussions for research and development purposes.
- Automating daily news briefings by filtering subreddits for specific keywords and timeframes.
- Gathering community-vetted solutions for troubleshooting complex programming errors.
How Search Reddit Works
- The user or agent initiates a query with optional parameters such as subreddit inclusion/exclusion or a time-range filter.
- The skill executes a targeted search via the OpenAI Responses API, utilizing the web_search tool constrained to the reddit.com domain.
- For each identified thread, the skill fetches the underlying Reddit JSON metadata to extract engagement metrics like scores and comment counts.
- It parses the thread to find the top-rated comments and generates excerpts to provide immediate context.
- The system normalizes the data, ensuring timestamps are accurate and filters are applied before returning the final result set.
Search Reddit Setup
To start using this skill within your Openclaw Skills environment, configure your OpenAI API key:
clawdbot config set skills.entries.search-reddit.apiKey "sk-YOUR-KEY"
Alternatively, you can set the key as an environment variable in your shell:
export OPENAI_API_KEY="sk-YOUR-KEY"
For shared configurations, you may also use:
clawdbot config set skills.entries.openai.apiKey "sk-YOUR-KEY"
Search Reddit Data Schema & Taxonomy
The Search Reddit skill organizes data into a structured format suitable for both human reading and machine processing:
| Property | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Title | String | The headline of the Reddit post |
| URL | String | Direct link to the thread or external content |
| Score | Integer | The net upvote count of the post |
| Top Comment | String | An excerpt of the most relevant or highest-rated comment |
| Subreddit | String | The name of the community where the post was found |
| Date | Timestamp | Normalized UTC date based on the created_utc field |
Search Reddit Advanced Features
- Temporal filtering allowing users to restrict results to the last 7, 30, or N days.
- Granular subreddit controls including comma-separated inclusion lists and keyword-based exclusions.
- Multiple output formats such as compact for CLI readability, JSON for programmatic use, and links-only for quick citations.
- Environment variable overrides for model selection and default search windows to customize Openclaw Skills behavior.
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