reddit-research-skills
Skills for researching Reddit from an agent: semantic search over posts and comments, trends, subreddit discovery and lead finding via reddapi.dev
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Why this level
- The skill makes network calls to the third-party reddapi.dev service
- It requires an API key and sends queries to an external index
Install
- Works in
In your terminal, with SkillFoxx CLI
npx skillfoxx add skills/reddit-research-skillsDetects the agents on your machine, shows the access level and pins the version.
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Access and checks
How we reviewExtended accessThe tool runs code or makes network calls and only reads external data.
- The skill makes network calls to the third-party reddapi.dev service
- It requires an API key and sends queries to an external index
This is third-party code. Review the repository files before installing.
What it does
The skill bundle lets an agent research Reddit through the third-party reddapi.dev service, without OAuth or app registration. The main reddit-research skill searches by meaning rather than keywords across a large index of subreddits, posts and comments, shows trends over a date range and helps find relevant subreddits. Separate skills include reddit-leads for finding posts with buying intent and scoring leads, reddit-search-api as a plain API reference, and a legacy reddapi skill for older installs. All calls use an API key, and the service has plans and limits.
Who it is for. For marketers, product managers and sales people who study demand, user pain points and leads on Reddit.
Good fit when
- You need to find user complaints and pain points on a topic or product
- You need to validate a niche or idea before launch
- You need to track discussion trends over a period or find relevant subreddits
Not a fit when
- You need official Reddit data with guaranteed provenance rather than a third-party index
- You are not ready to get a key and pay for a reddapi.dev plan
Example request
Find user complaints and pain points about planning tools on Reddit and show which subreddits discuss themLimitations
The skills work only through the third-party reddapi.dev service; this is not the official Reddit API. A REDDAPI_API_KEY is required, and access is limited by plan-based rate limits; an invalid or exhausted key returns HTTP 429. Vector search with date filters and the reddit-leads skill require a paid plan.
How to disable. Remove the reddit-research skill folder from the agent's skills directory and drop the REDDAPI_API_KEY from the environment.
FAQ
Is this the official Reddit API?
No, it is the third-party reddapi.dev index. Where official data provenance matters, it does not replace the Reddit API.
How does semantic search differ from vector search?
Semantic search covers the whole archive and fills the requested result count without a date filter; vector search returns a similarity score and a working date filter, for questions scoped to a period.
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README in short
The README lists skills for researching Reddit through reddapi.dev. The main reddit-research runs market and user research and product validation with semantic search, with search modes, trends and subreddit discovery. It also describes reddit-leads for B2B leads with intent scoring, the reference reddit-search-api and the legacy reddapi skill. It stresses that this is a third-party service without OAuth, keyed access with plan limits; installation is via npx skills.
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Original SKILL.md
--- name: reddit-research description: Do market research, user research, and product validation on Reddit with semantic search across 50K+ subreddits, 20M+ posts, and 40M+ comments via reddapi.dev - search by meaning, not keywords, no Reddit OAuth or app registration needed. Use when the user wants to research what people say on Reddit, find user pain points and complaints, validate a product or niche idea, do competitor and market research, track subreddit trends over a date range, or discover which subreddits discuss a topic. Also use when the user mentions 'Reddit research', 'search Reddit', 'subreddit discovery', 'niche validation', 'pain points', 'user complaints', or 'Reddit trends'. Requires REDDAPI_API_KEY. For B2B lead scoring, see reddit-leads; for a bare API reference, see reddit-search-api. license: MIT keywords: - reddit - reddit-research - market-research - user-research - product-validation - niche-discovery - subreddit-discovery - trend-analysis --- # reddit-research Skill ## Overview Reddit is where people complain, compare, and ask for alternatives before they ever fill out a survey. This skill turns that into a queryable research tool via reddapi.dev: search by meaning across 50,000+ subreddits, 20M+ posts, and 40M+ comments using vector embeddings, then pull trend momentum and subreddit context around it.