Reddit is a network of communities based on people's interests. Find communities you're interested in, and become part of an online community!
Integrate the Reddit API with the Node API
Setup the Reddit API trigger to run a workflow which integrates with the Node API. Pipedream's integration platform allows you to integrate Reddit and Node remarkably fast. Free for developers.
Popular Reddit and Node Triggers#
New comments on a post from the Reddit API
Emit new event each time a new comment is added to a subreddit.
New hot posts on a subreddit from the Reddit API
Emit new event each time a new hot post is added to the top 10 items in a subreddit.
New Links on a Subreddit from the Reddit API
Emit new event each time a new link is added to a subreddit
Popular Reddit and Node Actions#
Run Node Code with the Node API
Write custom Node.js code and use any of the 400k+ npm packages available. Refer to the Pipedream Node docs to learn more.
List Subreddits by Query with the Reddit API
List subreddits based on a search criteria. See the docs here
Overview of Reddit#
- You could build a tool that monitors specific subreddits and notifies you
when new posts match certain criteria. - You could build a tool that analyzes the posts and comments in a given
subreddit to generate statistics or visualizations about the topic. - You could build a bot that automatically posts or comments in response to
certain keywords or phrases. - You could build a tool that helps manage your Reddit account by automating
tasks like posting, messaging, or voting. - You could build a tool that extracts data from Reddit posts and comments for
use in other applications.
Connect Reddit#
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import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform"
export default defineComponent({
props: {
reddit: {
type: "app",
app: "reddit",
}
},
async run({steps, $}) {
return await axios($, {
url: `https://oauth.reddit.com/api/v1/me`,
headers: {
Authorization: `Bearer ${this.reddit.$auth.oauth_access_token}`,
"User-Agent": `pipedream:v0.0.1 (by /u/pipedream-oauth)`,
},
})
},
})
Connect Node#
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// To use previous step data, pass the `steps` object to the run() function
export default defineComponent({
async run({ steps, $ }) {
// Return data to use it in future steps
return steps.trigger.event
},
})Community Posts#
Building a Reddit Workflow with Pipedream
Almost four years ago I blogged about a demo I built using Reddit's API. The demo was a multi-user application that made use of Mongo for persistence and Passport.js for user authentication. You would login, select subreddit's to subscribe to, and then once a day it would email you the new posts from that subreddit. This was built in a "traditional" Node.js style with a server running full time to process requests. I thought it would be fun to build this again (although slightly different) using Pipedream's support for working with the Reddit API. I built two different versions of a simple workflow I'd like to share below.
Updating my Reddit Workflow with Pipedream
Back almost exactly a month ago, I blogged about using Pipedream to build a Reddit email report. The idea was that I wanted a daily email of posts from my subscribed subreddits for the past 24 hours of content. The implementation was a bit complex. I used one workflow to handle "get a days worth of content from subreddit" as a general "API" and another workflow connected to my authentication. It handles getting my subscriptions, hitting the API, and then generating the email. This worked well, but after a while of actually getting the email, I noticed some problems. So I decided to fix that.
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