Claude Skill: Reddit Automation (AppleScript)

Grow your Reddit presence on autopilot — using AppleScript to control your real Chrome browser. Undetectable by Reddit's anti-bot systems.

What's Inside

| Skill | Description | |-------|-------------| | reddit-cultivate | Find rising posts, draft value-first comments, build karma automatically | | reddit-post | Submit text/link posts to any subreddit with flair support |

Why AppleScript?

Every other automation tool gets detected:

| Tool | Problem | |------|---------| | Playwright/Selenium/Puppeteer | Sets navigator.webdriver=true — instantly detected | | Reddit API + OAuth | Rate limited, requires app registration | | curl | IP blocked after a few requests | | AppleScript + Chrome | Controls your real browser. Cookies, fingerprint, everything — indistinguishable from you clicking around. |

Install

npx skills add PHY041/claude-skill-reddit

Or manually copy the .claude/skills/ directories into your project.

Requirements

• macOS (AppleScript is macOS-only)
• Google Chrome with "Allow JavaScript from Apple Events" enabled:
  • Chrome → View → Developer → Allow JavaScript from Apple Events
  • Restart Chrome after enabling
• Logged into Reddit in Chrome

Usage

Once installed, just tell Claude Code:

/reddit-cultivate

→ Checks your karma, scans rising posts in target subreddits, drafts thoughtful comments, posts them, and gives you a summary table with links.

Post to r/SideProject about my new open source tool

→ Drafts and submits a Reddit post using the reddit-post skill.

How It Works

1. AppleScript sends JavaScript to Chrome's active tab
2. Same-origin fetch hits Reddit's internal API (/api/me.json, /api/comment, /api/submit)
3. Cookies included automatically — you're already logged in
4. Results read back via the document.title trick

The document.title Trick

Since AppleScript can't directly read async JS results, we write them to document.title and read it back:

# Execute async JS
osascript -e 'tell application "Google Chrome" to tell active tab of first window to execute javascript "fetch(...).then(d=>{document.title=JSON.stringify(d)})"'
sleep 2
# Read result
osascript -e 'tell application "Google Chrome" to return title of active tab of first window'

Features

reddit-cultivate

• Account status check (username, karma)
• Scans rising posts across multiple subreddits in parallel
• Drafts natural, value-first comments (no self-promotion)
• Posts with rate limiting (4s between comments)
• Outputs summary table with direct links to every comment

reddit-post

• Submit text posts or link posts
• Automatic modhash handling (CSRF protection)
• Flair detection and application
• Spam filter avoidance guidelines
• Best posting times and templates

License

MIT