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Reddit Digest Bot on Telegram

Wake up to a Telegram message with the top posts from your favorite subreddits, filtered to topics you actually care about. Zero skills needed -- just a prompt and a cron job.

Reddit Digest Bot on Telegram

What it does

A scheduled OpenClaw agent scans specified subreddits every morning, filters posts by relevance to your interests, and delivers a formatted digest to your Telegram chat. The agent:

  • Scans multiple subreddits (e.g. r/selfhosted, r/LocalLLaMA, r/homeautomation)
  • Filters by keyword and relevance using the LLM to judge what matches your interests
  • Summarizes each post in 1-2 lines with the original link
  • Delivers at your preferred time via a cron job (e.g. 7:00 AM)

Setup overview

  1. No special skills required -- uses a prompt-only approach with Reddit's public JSON feeds
  2. Write a SOUL.md prompt describing your interests and preferred subreddits
  3. Configure a cron job: 0 7 * * * openclaw run reddit-digest
  4. Connect Telegram as the delivery channel

This is the lowest-effort project to start with if you've never configured an OpenClaw cron job before.

LLM and tools

Works well with local models like Llama 4 via Ollama since the task is straightforward summarization. No API costs needed.

Source

Based on 9 OpenClaw Projects to Build in 2026 (Feb 2026)