Nobrainer Reddit

NoBrainer Reddit CLI

Reddit interface for Claude Code — read, search, post, and monitor Reddit from your terminal.

Setup

1. Install PRAW

pip3 install praw

2. Reddit API credentials

Register your app at: https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps Choose type: script

Store credentials in ~/.reddit_credentials.json:

{
  "client_id": "YOUR_CLIENT_ID",
  "client_secret": "YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET",
  "username": "YOUR_REDDIT_USERNAME",
  "password": "YOUR_REDDIT_PASSWORD",
  "user_agent": "nobrainer-reddit-cli/1.0 by YOUR_USERNAME"
}

3. Initialize

import praw, json
creds = json.load(open(os.path.expanduser("~/.reddit_credentials.json")))
reddit = praw.Reddit(**creds)
print(reddit.user.me())  # verify login

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Commands

Read — hot posts from a subreddit

import praw, json, os

creds = json.load(open(os.path.expanduser("~/.reddit_credentials.json")))
reddit = praw.Reddit(**creds)

for post in reddit.subreddit("python").hot(limit=10):
    print(f"[{post.score}] {post.title}")
    print(f"  {post.url}\n")

Search — find posts by keyword

for post in reddit.subreddit("all").search("claude code", limit=10, sort="new"):
    print(f"[r/{post.subreddit}] {post.title}")
    print(f"  {post.url}\n")

Read comments on a post

submission = reddit.submission(url="https://www.reddit.com/r/python/comments/...")
submission.comments.replace_more(limit=0)
for comment in submission.comments.list()[:20]:
    print(f"[{comment.score}] {comment.body[:200]}\n")

Post — submit a text post

subreddit = reddit.subreddit("test")
post = subreddit.submit(
    title="Test post from nobrainer-reddit-cli",
    selftext="This is the body of the post."
)
print(f"Posted: {post.url}")

Comment on a post

submission = reddit.submission(url="POST_URL")
comment = submission.reply("This is my comment.")
print(f"Commented: {comment.permalink}")

My profile — recent activity

me = reddit.user.me()
print(f"u/{me.name} | karma: {me.link_karma} post / {me.comment_karma} comment")

print("\n--- Recent posts ---")
for post in me.submissions.new(limit=5):
    print(f"[r/{post.subreddit}] {post.title}")

print("\n--- Recent comments ---")
for comment in me.comments.new(limit=5):
    print(f"[r/{comment.subreddit}] {comment.body[:100]}")

Monitor subreddit — new posts stream

print("Monitoring r/python for new posts... (Ctrl+C to stop)")
for post in reddit.subreddit("python").stream.submissions():
    print(f"[NEW] {post.title}")
    print(f"  {post.url}\n")

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Rate limits

• Free tier: 60 requests/minute
• PRAW handles rate limiting automatically
• Check remaining: reddit.auth.limits

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Notes

• Credentials file should have chmod 600 ~/.reddit_credentials.json
• user_agent must be descriptive and unique per Reddit's API rules
• Script type OAuth only accesses your own account — no other users' private data

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: nobrainer-tech
• Source: nobrainer-tech/nobrainer-claude-skills
• License: MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.