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Show HN: I built a tool to scrape and summarize Reddit long discussions

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1 month agoby MartinMachava
I built this because I spend too much time digging through thousands of comments on Reddit to find the actual conclusion or consensus.

First I used manual approach: - add .json to URL to get metadata (fetches ALL comments) - pass json to AI to get the summary

It works, you can use it, but metadata are "dirty", containing lots of unnecessary fields that bloats up the context for AI. And it's not that fast, I wanted single click solution.

It wasn't hard to automate it in chrome extension. Supported pages are Threads, Subreddits, Search results.

It’s built with Plasmo and React. The backend is a serverless proxy (Vercel) to handle rate limiting, key security and calls to OpenRouter API.

Demo: https://youtu.be/9MGwQElbBXE Chrome extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/jccgjnbkibbigimcfoh...

Feedback is welcome!