| name | reddit-research |
| description | Research Reddit communities, discussions, sentiment, and trends. Use when user wants to understand community reactions, find discussions about a topic, or gather Reddit data for research. |
Reddit Research Skill
Research Reddit communities, discussions, and sentiment using web extraction and search.
Quick Start
Using web_extract (Primary Method)
web_extract(urls: ["https://old.reddit.com/r/PaperclipAI/"])
web_extract(urls: ["https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/example/"])
web_search(query: "Paperclip AI agents site:reddit.com")
Using web_search for Reddit
web_search(query: "Paperclip AI orchestration reddit discussion")
web_search(query: "site:reddit.com paperclip zero human companies")
Research Workflow
- Find communities: Search for relevant subreddits
- Extract discussions: Use web_extract on subreddit/post URLs
- Analyze sentiment: Read comments for opinions, pain points, enthusiasm
- Track trends: Check multiple posts for recurring themes
Common Patterns
| Task | Approach |
|---|
| Find subreddit | web_search("PaperclipAI subreddit") then extract |
| Hot posts | web_extract("https://www.reddit.com/r/subreddit/hot/") |
| Search posts | web_search("paperclip AI agents site:reddit.com") |
| Post comments | web_extract("https://www.reddit.com/r/.../comments/...") |
Subreddit Discovery
web_search(query: "site:reddit.com AI agent orchestration communities")
web_search(query: "site:reddit.com multi-agent framework discussion")
Critical: Always Use old.reddit.com
www.reddit.com returns a JavaScript shell — Firecrawl gets nothing useful.
Always use old.reddit.com — it's plain HTML and Firecrawl returns 50K+ chars of real content.
url = url.replace("www.reddit.com", "old.reddit.com")
Update the patterns table above accordingly:
| Hot posts | web_extract("https://old.reddit.com/r/subreddit/hot/") |
| Post comments | web_extract("https://old.reddit.com/r/.../comments/...") |
Tips
- Always rewrite to
old.reddit.com before any web_extract call
- Check both hot/new for complete picture of community sentiment
- Look at posts with high comment counts for major discussions
- Search using
site:reddit.com in web_search for URL discovery, then rewrite to old. for extraction