lignertys/reddit-research-skills

reddit‑research‑skills – AI‑agent skill for querying Reddit

What it is

• A collection of skills (plug‑ins) that let Claude‑style LLM agents perform market, user‑research and lead‑generation queries on Reddit.
• The heavy lifting is done by the third‑party service reddapi.dev, which indexes >50 k subreddits, 20 M+ posts and 40 M+ comments and exposes semantic‑search, vector‑search, trend and subreddit‑discovery endpoints.

Key capabilities

Skill	Main purpose	How it works
reddit-research (canonical)	Market/user research, product validation	Sends a natural‑language query to reddapi.dev, which performs a semantic search across the whole Reddit archive, returns matching posts/comments with engagement metrics, and can optionally run an LLM‑based summary.
reddit-leads	B2B lead discovery	Finds Reddit posts that show buying intent, scores them 0‑100, and classifies the lead type (pain point, solution request, complaint, feature request, comparison). Requires a paid reddapi.dev plan.
reddit-search-api	Pure API reference	Lists the raw HTTP endpoints, parameters and response schemas for developers who want to call reddapi.dev directly.
reddapi (legacy)	Backward‑compatibility alias for reddit-research	Same engine, kept so existing installations don’t break.

How to add it

npx skills add https://github.com/lignertys/reddit-research-skills --skill reddit-research

The command registers the chosen skill with a Claude‑compatible agent runtime.

Typical usage (spoken or typed to the agent)

Find discussions about iPhone problems and complaints on Reddit
Search for user frustrations with current productivity tools
What are people saying about AI agent limitations?
Find Reddit discussions about competitor pain points for TOOL_NAME
Analyze trends in remote‑work discussions

The agent translates the request into an API call, fetches the relevant Reddit threads, and returns them (often with a brief AI‑generated summary).

Limitations

• It is not an official Reddit API; it relies on reddapi.dev’s own data pipeline.
• Access is gated by a subscription plan; exceeding the quota yields HTTP 429 responses.
• Semantic search works without a date filter; date‑restricted queries must use the vector search mode.

License

• MIT – you can freely fork or modify the skill definitions.

Bottom line reddit-research-skills gives LLM agents a ready‑made way to pull real‑world Reddit data for market research, trend analysis, or lead generation, without having to write any Reddit‑API plumbing yourself.