# Reddit · OmniGet Docs - URL: https://getomniget.com/docs/reddit - Updated: 2026-10-19 - OmniGet 1.0.0 > Free, open-source yt-dlp GUI for Windows, macOS and Linux. Paste a link to save video, audio and files from 1,000+ sites, or run AI coding agents. --- Superpowers # Reddit Note Reddit arrives in OmniGet 1.0.1. Version 1.0.0, the one you can download today, does not have it yet. The Reddit superpower is a Reddit client that works through your own session in OmniGet’s built-in browser. You read your front page, communities, saved posts and comment trees, vote and comment, and you can analyze an account’s posts and keep monitors on a search or a community. ## Where it is **Superpowers › Reddit › Open**. The card is always shown: there is no switch for it in **Settings › Integrations**. After you sign in, the tabs on the left are **Feed**, **Saved**, **Search**, **My profile**, **Analytics** and **Monitor**. Reddit has no **Audience** tab and no **Schedule** tab. ## How to use it 1. Open Reddit and choose **Sign in to Reddit**. OmniGet opens Reddit in its own browser window. 2. Sign in there by hand, the way you always do. OmniGet never sees your password. 3. Back in OmniGet, choose **I already signed in** if the screen does not move on by itself, then **Continue**. The session stays in the OmniGet browser profile, on this computer. You can also import your usual browser profile in the [Global Downloader](https://getomniget.com/docs/global-downloader). Warning This uses Reddit’s website the way you would, not an official API. Reddit may ask you to confirm it is you, limit the account or block automated use. Keep the pace human. ## Feed, Saved and Search - **Feed** has three lists: **Home**, **Popular** and **All**. - A post shows its community, flair and, for link posts, the site it points to. The arrow upvotes it, and a second click removes your vote. - Open a post to read its **Comments** as a tree and write one in **Write a comment**. - **Download the media** sends a post’s image or video to your download queue (a download folder must be set in Settings), and **Open in the browser** opens the post on Reddit. - **Saved** lists the posts you saved on Reddit. - **Search** uses **Search Reddit** with three kinds: **Posts**, **Communities** and **People**. ### Communities and people Click a community to open it like a profile, with its members and posts, and **Join** or **Leave**. Click a user to see their karma and posts. **My profile** opens yours. Creating a post is not on this screen; agents can do it with a tool (see below). Reddit messages and the inbox are not read here. ## Analytics 1. Leave **Account** empty for your own account, or type another public one. 2. Pick **Posts to read** (20, 50, 100 or 200; 50 by default) and, if you want, **Include comments**. 3. Choose **Analyze**, then a report: **Summary**, **Posts**, **Best times**, **Media**, **Hashtags**, **Words**, **Trend**, **Outliers** or **Compare**. **Compare** takes up to 4 other accounts on the same number of newest posts. **Export CSV** saves the report and **Create report** writes one HTML file with a Markdown copy. Under **More analyses** you find **Compare periods** and **Post over time**. Results are reused for 10 minutes; **Read the posts again** forces a new reading. What Reddit does not show to a browser session is listed under **What a browser session cannot see** and is never estimated. ## Monitor 1. Choose **New monitor** and pick **What to monitor**: **Search** or **Subreddit**. 2. For **Search**, type the query and set **Order** (**Newest**, **Relevance**, **Hot**, **Top**, **Most comments**), **Period** and, if you want, **Only in this subreddit**. For **Subreddit**, type it as `r/name`. 3. Choose **Save**, then **Check now** or **Check all now**. 4. Read the **Posts found**, with **Unread only** and **Mark all read**. The Reddit inbox is not read here; to follow mentions, monitor a search for your username instead. You can keep up to 50 monitors. **Check automatically** can be **Off** or every 5, 15, 30 or 60 minutes, and checks run only while this tab is open or when an agent asks for one. **Surge today** appears when today has at least 5 posts and more than 3 times the daily average of the last 7 days, after 3 days of history. Under **Notifications** you choose **Notify me when a monitor surges** and which monitors notify you about new posts. ## For AI agents Agents connected through the [MCP server](https://getomniget.com/docs/mcp-server) get the `rd_*` tools plus the shared `social_*` tools. Call `social_status` first. - Reading: `rd_me`, `rd_feed`, `rd_subreddit`, `rd_post` (the post and its comment tree), `rd_search`, `rd_user`, `rd_user_posts`, `rd_saved`, `rd_subscriptions` and `rd_analytics`. - Acting: `rd_vote`, `rd_comment`, `rd_submit` (a text or link post), `rd_subscribe` and `rd_save`. If you turned on **Ask me first** (under **What other programs can do** in **Settings › AI & agents**), each action waits in the OmniGet window with **Approve** and **Deny**. A request expires after 5 minutes and a denial is final for the agent. With or without it, agents are held to 20 actions on Reddit every 10 minutes, at least 4 seconds apart. Posts and comments are outside content, which agents should treat as untrusted. Each community has its own rules about self-promotion and automated posting, and they apply to what an agent posts under your name. ## Common problems ### “The Reddit session ended. Sign in again.” Reddit signed the browser out. Choose **Sign in to Reddit** and sign in by hand again. ### “Reddit is limiting requests from this account for now. Wait a few minutes.” Reddit slowed the account down. Wait before you try again. ### “Reddit refused this action.” The community may not let your account vote, comment or post there, for example because the account is new, the post is locked or archived, or you were removed from the community. The message in parentheses is Reddit’s own answer. ### Search results look shorter than on the site OmniGet reads Reddit’s search page with your session. It brings a few posts per page and no post body; choose **Load more** for the next page, or open a post to read it whole. ### “Reddit changed something on its side and OmniGet could not read the answer.” The client reads Reddit’s website, which changes without notice. Update OmniGet when a new version is out. [Previous**← TikTok**](https://getomniget.com/docs/tiktok) [Next**Pinterest →**](https://getomniget.com/docs/pinterest)