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Reddit Scraper

v1.0.0

Read and search Reddit posts via web scraping of old.reddit.com. Use when Clawdbot needs to browse Reddit content - read posts from subreddits, search for topics, monitor specific communities. Read-only access with no posting or comments.

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by@javicasper
MIT-0
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LicenseMIT-0 · Free to use, modify, and redistribute. No attribution required.
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Purpose & Capability
Overall coherent: the skill's code and TECHNICAL.md implement read-only Reddit access via Reddit's public JSON API, which matches the declared purpose (reading and searching posts). Minor inconsistency: the top-level description references web scraping of old.reddit.com, but the implementation uses the JSON API endpoints (reddit.com/*.json). This looks like outdated wording rather than malicious intent.
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Instruction Scope
SKILL.md instructs the agent to run the included Python script with command-line options; the script only makes outbound HTTPS requests to reddit.com, parses returned JSON, and prints results. There are no instructions to read arbitrary host files, environment variables, or send data to third-party endpoints.
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Install Mechanism
No install spec is provided (instruction-only), so nothing is written to disk by an installer. The script requires the Python 'requests' library; TECHNICAL.md suggests installing it via apt-get (python3-requests). That's reasonable, but the skill will fail if requests is absent — no package is provisioned by the skill itself.
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Credentials
The skill declares no required environment variables, credentials, or config paths and the code does not access any secrets or unrelated environment variables. Network access is limited to reddit.com endpoints, consistent with the stated purpose.
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Persistence & Privilege
Skill does not request persistent presence, does not modify other skills or system-wide settings, and is not marked always:true. It runs as an invoked script and has no autonomous elevated privileges beyond normal network access.
Assessment
This skill is internally consistent and appears to only fetch Reddit JSON data. Before installing, note: (1) the README wording mentioning old.reddit.com/web scraping is outdated — the code uses reddit.com's JSON API; (2) the host must have Python and the 'requests' package installed (TECHNICAL.md suggests apt-get install python3-requests); and (3) Reddit may rate-limit requests, so avoid high-frequency automated polling. If you need to restrict network access, consider running the skill in an environment that limits outbound connections to reddit.com only.

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License

MIT-0
Free to use, modify, and redistribute. No attribution required.
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