reddit-insights

# Reddit Insights Skill Reddit is where people complain, compare, and ask for alternatives before they ever fill out a survey. This skill queries that through [reddapi.dev](https://reddapi.dev): vector search by meaning across the archive, plus site-wide trend momentum and subreddit lookup, with no Reddit OAuth or registered app. It reads a third-party index rather than Reddit itself, so it is a research tool, not a substitute for the official API where data provenance matters. It cannot post, cannot read private or quarantined subreddits, and cannot walk live comment trees. ## When to Use - Mining how people describe a problem in their own words, before naming a product or writing copy - Comparing two tools by what users report after switching between them - Checking whether a topic is gaining or losing momentum before committing - Finding which subreddits actually discuss a niche, ahead of reading them **Do not use when:** you already have a thread URL (fetch it with `web_extract`), you need the comment tree, or the query is not in English. The index is English-dominant. Related: `reddit-leads` for B2B lead scoring on the same provider, `reddit-search-api` for a bare endpoint reference. ## Prerequisites - Python 3.9+ (the shipped script is stdlib only, no install step) - `REDDAPI_API_KEY` exported in the shell that runs the request Handling the key: - Reference it only as `$REDDAPI_API_KEY`. Never substitute the literal value into a command, a file, a code blo...