Search Reddit for posts about a topic

Runs a search in the Reddit app, keeps the results on Posts, and reads each result: title, which community, how old, and the vote and comment counts. Where the subreddit workflow reads one community, this reads across all of them.

Nothing is upvoted, commented on or joined.

Inputs

Run it

One call. Substitute the inputs.

run_task({
  "phases": [{
    "launch": "com.reddit.frontpage",
    "goal": "In the Reddit app, tap the search bar at the top labelled 'Find anything', type '<query>', and press enter. On the results, tap the Posts tab so only posts are listed, then keep scrolling the results. Do not tap the Ask button, do not open a post, and do not upvote, comment or join.",
    "steps": [
      "Search results for '<query>' are showing",
      "A list of post results about '<query>' is showing"
    ],
    "typeTexts": [
      "<query>"
    ],
    "maxSteps": 20,
    "collect": {
      "record": "a post in the search results",
      "fields": {
        "title": "the post title",
        "community": "the r/ community it was posted in",
        "age": "how long ago it was posted",
        "score": "the vote and comment counts, if shown"
      },
      "where": "a list of posts about '<query>' is showing",
      "count": <count>
    }
  }]
})

Poll get_task_status(task_id, wait_seconds: 30) until the status is done.

What comes back

result.collected holds one record per post. Add a judge claim to keep only the posts that match what you mean by the topic.

Notes

• Reddit shows one tall card per screen, so ten posts is roughly ten screens and maxSteps is 20.
• The Ask button beside the search bar is Reddit Answers, not search. Never tap it.