Reddit Keyword Alert Bot

Monitor any subreddit for keywords and get instant Telegram pings or run a scheduled scraper that dumps matching posts into CSV.

Features

• No Reddit API key – uses public JSON endpoints.
• Instant Telegram alerts – optional, dead easy to set up.
• CSV-friendly output – pipe stdout or run with --once and redirect.
• Lightweight – requests only.

Quick Start

pip install -r requirements.txt
python reddit_keyword_alert.py --subs python+opensource --kw openai,gpt        --telegram 123456:ABCDEF... --chat -100123456789

Run without --telegram/--chat to just print results.

Use --once to run a single pass (good for cron) or omit to poll every 15 min (change with --interval).

Cron example (daily at 8 AM)

0 8 * * * /usr/bin/python /path/reddit_keyword_alert.py --subs python --kw hiring > /home/user/hiring_posts.csv

License

MIT – see LICENSE.