Reddit Fetch

Reddit Fetch is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by ykdojo in claude-code-tips.

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Install Reddit Fetch

Copy Reddit Fetch into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/ykdojo/claude-code-tips/tree/main/skills/reddit-fetch ~/.claude/skills/reddit-fetch

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/ykdojo/claude-code-tips.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/reddit-fetch/SKILL.md in ykdojo/claude-code-tips
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/reddit-fetch
Collection: One of 9 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Reddit Fetch does

Reddit Fetch retrieves Reddit content via its public JSON API, using a DuckDuckGo redirect to bypass Reddit's automated-access blocking. Use it when accessing Reddit URLs, researching topics, or when Reddit returns 403/blocked errors.

Reddit Fetch is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Reddit Fetch comes from a repository tagged agentic, agentic-ai, agentic-coding, agentic-workflow and ai.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Reddit Fetch

Reddit's public JSON API works by appending .json to any Reddit URL — but Reddit now hard-blocks automated access. curl 403s essentially every time (host AND container, regardless of User-Agent), and even a cold Playwright navigation to reddit.com hits a "You've been blocked by network security" challenge page. The reliable method is to arrive at Reddit through a DuckDuckGo result redirect: that sets a Reddit session cookie which unlocks direct .json access for the rest of the browser session.

Primary method: the DuckDuckGo-hop unlock

Step 1 - the DDG hop. Do this once per session before any .json fetch.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Reddit Fetch

What else does ykdojo publish alongside Reddit Fetch?
Reddit Fetch is one of 9 skills that DirSkills catalogs from ykdojo/claude-code-tips, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Actions Failure Analyzer, HN Summarize and Half Clone. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Reddit Fetch does, and is maintained by ykdojo in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the ykdojo/claude-code-tips page.
How does Reddit Fetch compare to other Automation skills?
Reddit Fetch ranks #182 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Reddit Fetch against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.