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"name": "When clicking \"Execute Workflow\"",
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"location": "allReddit",
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"content": "## What this workflow does\n\u2714\ufe0e 1) Get posts from reddit that might be about n8n\n - Filter for the most relevant posts (posted in last 7 days and more than 5 upvotes and is original content)\n\n\u2714\ufe0e 2) Check if the post is actually about n8n\n\n\u2714\ufe0e 3) if it is, categorise with OpenAi.\n"
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"content": "## Drawbacks\n\ud83e\udd14 Workflow only considers first 500 characters of each reddit post. So if n8n is mentioned after this amount, it won't register as being a post about n8n.io."
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"value": "={{ $json.text }}"
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"content": "## Next steps\n* Improve OpenAI Summary node prompt to return cleaner summaries.\n* Extend to **more platforms/sources** - e.g. it would be really cool to monitor larger slack communities in this way. \n* Do some classification on type of user to highlight users likely to be in our **ICP**.\n* Separate a list of data sources (reddit, twitter, slack, discord etc.), extract messages from there and have them go to a **sub workflow for classification and summarisation.**"
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"notes": "A one sentence summary of what the post is about.",
"disabled": true,
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"input": "={{ $json.selftextTrimmed }}",
"options": {
"temperature": 0.3
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"instruction": "Summarise what this is talking about in a meta way less than 20 words. Ignore punctuation in your summary and return a short, human readable summary."
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"notes": "Is the post about n8n?",
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"notes": "A one sentence summary of what the post is about.",
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"parameters": {
"prompt": "=Summarise what this is talking about in a meta way in only 1 sentence.\n\n {{ $json.selftextTrimmed }}",
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"content": "## What we learned\n- \ud83e\udeb6 **Writing prompts**: small changes in the type of prompt result in very different results. e.g. for Summarising OpenAI would use multiple sentences even if we asked it to use only 1. We got better results by following OpenAI's documentation.\n - We could make OpenAI node easier to work with for new users by the node inputs being oriented not to sending parameters to api but by following [their suggestions](https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/completion/prompt-design) - e.g. have a field for expected output format rather than just for prompt.\n- \u2195\ufe0f **Changing the max_tokens parameter** drastically changes results - sometimes making it smaller even improves results (e.g. when you want a yes/no response in the OpenAI Classify node). In their [docs](https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/completion/inserting-text) they recommend using max_tokens>256 but [n8n by default](https://community.n8n.io/t/openai-result-not-complete/21533) uses max_tokens=16. We should probably update this."
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How this works
This workflow enables you to manually trigger AI-powered analysis of Reddit content, delivering tailored summaries or insights directly to your dashboard for quick decision-making. It's ideal for content creators, researchers, or marketers who need to monitor subreddit discussions without constant automation. The key step involves feeding selected Reddit posts into OpenAI for intelligent processing, streamlining what would otherwise be hours of manual review into seconds of automated evaluation.
Use this workflow when you want on-demand, event-driven insights from Reddit, such as spotting trends in niche communities during a specific campaign. Avoid it for high-volume, real-time monitoring, where a scheduled trigger would be more efficient. Common variations include swapping OpenAI for custom prompts to generate replies or integrating with email nodes to distribute findings.
About this workflow
Manual Openai. Uses manualTrigger, reddit, stickyNote, openAi. Event-driven trigger; 15 nodes.
Source: https://github.com/Zie619/n8n-workflows — original creator credit. Request a take-down →
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