Reddit Scraping Skill

When to use this skill

• When the user wants to list top posts from a specific subreddit (e.g., "Get top posts from r/n8n").
• When the user needs a quick, unauthenticated way to check Reddit content.
• When expanding this functionality to other scraping tasks.

Workflow

1. Verify Dependencies: Ensure requests is installed or create a virtual environment.
2. Execute Scraper: Run the provided python script, passing the subreddit name as an argument.
3. Process Output: The script prints to stdout; output can be piped or captured.

Instructions

1. Setup Environment

To avoid system package conflicts, prefer running this in a virtual environment if one doesn't exist.

cd .agent/skills/scraping-reddit/scripts
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Run the Scraper

The script accepts one optional argument: the subreddit name.

Syntax:

python3 scraper.py [subreddit_name]

Examples:

# Default (r/n8n)
python3 scraper.py

# Custom subreddit (r/python)
python3 scraper.py python

3. Modifying the Logic

If you need to change the limit (default 3) or extraction logic, edit scripts/scraper.py.

Resources

• Scraper Script
• Requirements