Read Thread — Reddit Community Agentic Workflow

schema_version: 1
version: "1.0.0"
last_verified: "2026-02-05"
id: reddit_read_thread
title: "Read Thread"
description: "Read a full Reddit thread in one pass — post metadata (title, score, author, flair, comment count, body) plus structured top-level comments (author, score, body). Single page load, combined output."
overview: |
  In a single page load, this workflow captures everything an agent needs to reason about a Reddit thread: the post itself with full body, score, author, and flair, plus every top-level comment as a structured list with author, score, and body text. Reply trees are summarised at the top level only, keeping the output compact.

  It is the standard comprehension step in front of any Reddit drafting or classification workflow. One load keeps rate-limiting pressure low and avoids brittle multi-page scraping patterns.

category:
  level: task
  domain: social
  reusable: true
params:
  post_url: string
steps:
  - type: browser.navigate
    url: "{{post_url}}"

  - type: browser.wait
    selector: "#siteTable .thing"
    timeout: 10000

  - type: browser.extract
    selector: ".title a.title"
    as: title

  - type: browser.extract
    selector: "#siteTable .score.unvoted"
    attribute: "title"
    as: score

  - type: browser.extract
    selector: "#siteTable .tagline .author"
    as: author

  - type: browser.extract
    selector: "#siteTable .linkflair-text"
    as: flair

  - type: browser.extract
    selector: ".comments"
    as: comments

  - type: browser.extract
    selector: ".expando .usertext-body"
    as: body

  - type: browser.extractMap
    selector: ".commentarea > .sitetable > .thing.comment > .entry"
    fields:
      author:
        selector: ".author"
      score:
        selector: ".score.unvoted"
        attribute: "title"
      body:
        selector: ".usertext-body"
    as: thread_comments

  - type: control.stop
    message: "title: {{title}}\nscore: {{score}}\nauthor: {{author}}\nflair: {{flair}}\ncomments: {{comments}}\n---\n{{body}}\n\n---\nComments:\n{{thread_comments}}"