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Automate Reddit with Paperclip

Post to multiple subreddits, target specific communities with flairs, choose post types, and cross-post content β€” all from the command line or through your AI agent.

Setup GuidePaperclip

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Post to Reddit in Seconds

Terminal

# Install the skill
npx skills add gitroomhq/postiz-agent

# Set your API key
export POSTIZ_API_KEY=your_api_key

# Find your Reddit integration
postiz integrations:list

# Discover available flairs for a subreddit
postiz integrations:trigger <id> getFlairs -d '{"subreddit":"programming"}'

# Create a Reddit post
postiz posts:create \
  -c "Check this out! A great new tool for developers." \
  -s "2025-01-15T10:00:00Z" \
  --settings '{"subreddit":[{"value":{"subreddit":"programming","title":"Cool tool for automating social media","type":"self","is_flair_required":false}}]}' \
  -i "your-reddit-integration-id"

Reddit-Specific Features

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Subreddit Targeting

Post to one or multiple subreddits simultaneously. Target the exact communities where your content belongs.

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Post Types

Create self posts, link posts, image posts, or video posts. Each type is optimized for Reddit's native rendering.

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Flair Support

Automatically discover and apply required flairs for each subreddit. Never have a post rejected for missing flair again.

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Cross-Posting

Share content across multiple subreddits in a single command. Each subreddit gets its own title and flair configuration.

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Link & Media Posts

Share URLs, images, or videos directly. Link posts drive traffic while media posts maximize engagement within Reddit.

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Scheduled Posting

Schedule Reddit posts for peak activity times. Hit the front page by posting when your target subreddits are most active.

How It Works

1

Find Your Reddit Integration

List your connected accounts and grab your Reddit integration ID. You can also discover available flairs for any subreddit before posting.

Discovery

# List all integrations
postiz integrations:list

# Filter for Reddit
postiz integrations:list | jq \
  '.[] | select(.identifier=="reddit")'

# Get Reddit settings schema
postiz integrations:settings <reddit-id>

# Discover flairs for a subreddit
postiz integrations:trigger <reddit-id> \
  getFlairs -d '{"subreddit":"programming"}'
2

Choose Your Post Type

Reddit supports multiple post types. Self posts contain text, link posts share URLs, and image/video posts upload media directly. Pick the right type for your content.

Post Types

# Self post (text only)
"type": "self"

# Link post (shares a URL)
"type": "link"
"url": "https://example.com/article"

# Image post
"type": "image"
# Use -m flag with image URL

# Video post
"type": "video"
# Use -m flag with video URL
3

Create Your Post

Schedule a Reddit post with your content, target subreddit, post type, and flair. You can post to multiple subreddits at once by adding more items to the subreddit array.

Post Creation

postiz posts:create \
  -c "Check this out" \
  -s "2025-03-01T09:00:00Z" \
  --settings '{
    "subreddit": [
      {
        "value": {
          "subreddit": "programming",
          "title": "Cool tool for developers",
          "type": "self",
          "is_flair_required": false
        }
      }
    ]
  }' \
  -i "reddit-id"

Reddit Settings Reference

Every Reddit post accepts these platform-specific settings via the --settings flag.

FieldTypeDescription
__typestringMust be "reddit"
subredditarrayArray of subreddit targets: [{value: {subreddit, title, type, url?, is_flair_required, flair?}}]
subreddit[].value.subredditstringName of the subreddit to post to (without r/ prefix)
subreddit[].value.titlestringTitle of the Reddit post
subreddit[].value.typestringPost type: "self", "link", "image", or "video"
subreddit[].value.urlstringURL for link-type posts
subreddit[].value.is_flair_requiredbooleanWhether the subreddit requires a flair
subreddit[].value.flairobjectFlair object with id and name (required if is_flair_required is true)
subreddit[].value.flair.idstringFlair template ID from the subreddit
subreddit[].value.flair.namestringDisplay name of the flair

Common Configurations

Copy-paste these settings for common Reddit posting scenarios.

Simple Self Post

settings.json

{
  "subreddit": [
    {
      "value": {
        "subreddit": "programming",
        "title": "Check out this new open-source tool",
        "type": "self",
        "is_flair_required": false
      }
    }
  ]
}

Link Post with Flair

settings.json

{
  "subreddit": [
    {
      "value": {
        "subreddit": "webdev",
        "title": "How we built our scheduling engine",
        "type": "link",
        "url": "https://example.com/blog/scheduling-engine",
        "is_flair_required": true,
        "flair": {
          "id": "abc123",
          "name": "Article"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Cross-Post to Multiple Subreddits

settings.json

{
  "subreddit": [
    {
      "value": {
        "subreddit": "programming",
        "title": "New open-source social media tool",
        "type": "self",
        "is_flair_required": false
      }
    },
    {
      "value": {
        "subreddit": "opensource",
        "title": "We just open-sourced our social media scheduler",
        "type": "link",
        "url": "https://github.com/example/project",
        "is_flair_required": false
      }
    }
  ]
}

Image Post

settings.json

{
  "subreddit": [
    {
      "value": {
        "subreddit": "dataisbeautiful",
        "title": "Social media engagement trends 2025",
        "type": "image",
        "is_flair_required": true,
        "flair": {
          "id": "def456",
          "name": "OC"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

What is Paperclip?

Paperclip is an open-source orchestration framework for building β€œzero-human companies” by hiring and managing teams of AI agents. It handles content, social media distribution, marketing, dev, QA, and more from a single dashboard.

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Agent Teams

Paperclip manages teams of AI agents that work together. Assign a content agent, a scheduling agent, and a review agent to your social media workflow.

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Single Dashboard

Monitor all your AI agents and their social media tasks from one unified dashboard. Track posts, schedules, and performance in real time.

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Orchestration

Paperclip orchestrates complex multi-agent workflows. Chain content creation, review, approval, and publishing into automated pipelines.

How Postiz Works with Paperclip

Paperclip integrates Postiz as a tool in its agent orchestration framework. Agents in your Paperclip team can call Postiz commands to manage social media workflows end-to-end.

  • βœ“Install Postiz Agent and set your POSTIZ_API_KEY
  • βœ“Paperclip discovers Postiz through tool integration
  • βœ“Assign Postiz commands to specialized agents in your team
  • βœ“Orchestrate multi-step workflows with approval chains
  • βœ“Monitor everything from the Paperclip dashboard

Install Postiz

# Install the Postiz skill
npx skills add gitroomhq/postiz-agent

# Set your API key
export POSTIZ_API_KEY=your_api_key

# Paperclip discovers Postiz through
# its tool integration system
# and assigns it to agent teams

Reddit Posting with Paperclip

Paperclip assigns specialized agents to each step of your social media workflow β€” content creation, review, scheduling, and publishing β€” all orchestrated through Postiz.

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From Any Chat App

Paperclip assigns specialized agents to ...

Send a message to Paperclip from your favorite chat app. It runs as a persistent daemon on your machine, so it picks up your message, discovers your Reddit account via Postiz, finds the right flairs, and schedules the post β€” all while you go about your day.

Paperclip

Content Agent: Drafted a post about
  the feature launch for Reddit.

Review Agent: Approved with minor
  edits. Ready to publish.

Scheduling Agent: Found Reddit
  integration via Postiz.
  Scheduled for tomorrow 9:00 AM.

  Post ID: abc-123
  Status: Scheduled
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Scheduled & Proactive

Paperclip orchestrates recurring co...

Paperclip supports cron-based heartbeat tasks. Set up a recurring job that monitors for new content and posts it to the right subreddits automatically β€” no manual trigger needed.

paperclip.yaml (pipeline)

pipelines:
  daily_social:
    schedule: "0 9 * * 1-5"
    agents:
      - role: content_creator
        task: "Draft a Reddit post
          about trending industry topics"
      - role: reviewer
        task: "Review and polish the
          draft for engagement"
      - role: publisher
        task: "Schedule via Postiz
          for today at noon"

Why Paperclip + Postiz for Reddit

Paperclip makes Postiz a natural fit for your Reddit workflow. The agent discovers all available commands and autonomously chains them together.

  • βœ“Multi-agent teams for quality Reddit content β€” draft, review, publish
  • βœ“Single dashboard to monitor all social media automation
  • βœ“Orchestrated pipelines from content creation to publishing
  • βœ“Scheduled pipelines for hands-free daily posting
  • βœ“Cross-post to Reddit + other platforms in a single pipeline
  • βœ“Open-source β€” fully customizable agent workflows

SKILL.md (auto-discovered)

---
name: postiz
description: Social media automation
  CLI for scheduling posts across
  30+ platforms including Reddit
metadata:
  paperclip:
    requirements:
      env:
        - POSTIZ_API_KEY
      binaries:
        - postiz
---

# Available Commands
- postiz integrations:list
- postiz integrations:settings <id>
- postiz integrations:trigger <id>
    getFlairs -d '{"subreddit":"..."}'
- postiz posts:create
- postiz upload <file>
- postiz analytics:platform <id>

# Reddit Settings
subreddit (array of targets),
type (self/link/image/video),
title, url, flair, is_flair_required

Also Works with Claude Code

Postiz Agent works as a CLI tool with any AI agent that can execute shell commands β€” including Anthropic's Claude Code.

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Claude Code

by Anthropic

Claude reads the SKILL.md file to learn all available Postiz commands, then autonomously discovers your Reddit integration, checks flair requirements, and schedules posts to the right subreddits.

Claude Code

> Post to r/programming and r/webdev
  about our new feature, schedule for
  tomorrow morning

Claude will automatically run:
  postiz integrations:list
  postiz integrations:trigger <id> \
    getFlairs -d '{"subreddit":"programming"}'
  postiz posts:create \
    -c "Details about the feature..." \
    -s "2025-03-02T09:00:00Z" \
    --settings '{"subreddit":[
      {"value":{"subreddit":"programming",
        "title":"New feature release",
        "type":"self",
        "is_flair_required":false}},
      {"value":{"subreddit":"webdev",
        "title":"New feature release",
        "type":"self",
        "is_flair_required":false}}
    ]}' \
    -i "reddit-id"

Reddit + Other Platforms

Schedule the same content to Reddit and other platforms in a single command. Each platform gets its own settings.

Terminal

# Post to Reddit and Twitter simultaneously
postiz posts:create \
  -c "We just launched something awesome! Check it out." \
  -s "2025-03-01T09:00:00Z" \
  --settings '{
    "subreddit": [
      {
        "value": {
          "subreddit": "programming",
          "title": "We just launched our new tool",
          "type": "link",
          "url": "https://example.com",
          "is_flair_required": false
        }
      }
    ]
  }' \
  -i "reddit-id,twitter-id"

# Batch schedule a week of Reddit content
for day in 1 2 3 4 5; do
  postiz posts:create \
    -c "Day $day insights from our dev team" \
    -s "2025-03-0${day}T10:00:00Z" \
    --settings '{"subreddit":[{"value":{"subreddit":"programming","title":"Dev insight day '$day'","type":"self","is_flair_required":false}}]}' \
    -i "reddit-id"
done

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