Reddit MCP Server

There's no official Reddit MCP. Here's the community Reddit MCP server I'd use with Claude for audience research, plus setup, rate limits and costs.

Pricing

free

GitHub stars

831

Last commit

2026-08-17

Page updated

2026-09-22

Open source (MIT) and free. Uses a free Reddit script app for full access; Reddit's free API access is meant for personal, non-commercial use.

What you can ask it

• “Search r/marketing, r/SaaS and r/Entrepreneur for posts about "cold email" from the last month and list the 10 most common frustrations in the users' own words”
• “Pull the top 5 threads mentioning [competitor] this year with comments. What do people like, what do they hate, and what do they switch to?”
• “Browse the top posts of all time in r/copywriting and summarize the advice that keeps coming up”
• “Find threads where someone asks for a tool like ours and tell me which subreddits they cluster in”
• “Get the comments on this thread [URL] and sort the objections into price, trust and features”

Features

• `browse_subreddit`: hot, new, top, rising or controversial posts from any subreddit, r/all or r/popular
• `search_reddit`: search all of Reddit or specific subreddits, filtered by author, time and flair
• `get_post_details`: a post plus its full comment thread from any Reddit URL format
• `user_analysis`: karma, recent posts and comments, and most active subreddits for a user
• Read-only by design: it never posts, comments or votes
• Three rate-limit tiers: 10, 60 or 100 requests per minute depending on credentials
• Local in-memory cache (50MB cap) so repeat questions don't burn requests

How to set up the Reddit MCP Server

Works with: Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "reddit": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "reddit-mcp-buddy"
      ]
    }
  }
}

claude mcp add --transport stdio reddit-mcp-buddy -s user -- npx -y reddit-mcp-buddy

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "reddit": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "reddit-mcp-buddy"
      ],
      "env": {
        "REDDIT_CLIENT_ID": "your_client_id",
        "REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET": "your_client_secret",
        "REDDIT_USERNAME": "your_username",
        "REDDIT_PASSWORD": "your_password"
      }
    }
  }
}

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