Reddit (RSS) MCP server

reddit-mcp

<!-- mcp-name: io.github.jorgen-k/reddit-mcp -->

Read Reddit from local MCP-compatible clients, including Claude Code and Codex, without an API key. No app registration, no account.

Reddit's data API is effectively closed. New apps need a stated moderation use case and manual approval, anonymous .json access is blocked, and the free tier that third-party tools were built on is gone. Most "Reddit for LLMs" integrations now start with a credentials dance you can't complete.

Reddit still publishes public Atom/RSS feeds for every subreddit, thread, user and search. This is a small local MCP server that reads those feeds and hands your compatible client the fields that matter: browse a subreddit, read a thread and its comments, search across the site.

Those feeds are published to be fetched, which is why this keeps working. It reads a supported path in a format frozen since 2005, so there is no markup to break when Reddit ships its next redesign.

What you don't get: scores, upvote ratios, comment counts. Those exist only in the gated API, and nothing here fakes them. Titles, authors, timestamps, and the full text of posts and comments all come through.

Install

reddit-rss-mcp is on PyPI (the plain reddit-mcp name belongs to an unrelated project). You need uv on your machine; it handles Python and dependencies itself, and there is nothing else to set up.

Claude Code:

claude mcp add reddit -s user -- uvx reddit-rss-mcp

Verify with claude mcp list (should show reddit: ✓ Connected). If Claude can't find uvx, use its absolute path (which uvx) instead of the bare command.

Codex CLI:

codex mcp add reddit -- uvx reddit-rss-mcp

Verify with codex mcp list. To use a local checkout instead, run:

codex mcp add reddit -- uv --directory "$(pwd)" run server.py

Codex also supports a project-scoped .codex/config.toml, but this repository does not include one because it would configure and launch the server automatically for every trusted checkout.

Claude Desktop, one click: download reddit-rss-mcp.mcpb from the latest release and drag it into Settings → Extensions. No JSON editing, no absolute paths. (It runs uvx reddit-rss-mcp, so uv still needs to be on your PATH.)

Claude Desktop & Cowork, manual config: add this to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claudedesktopconfig.json, using the absolute path from which uvx (the app doesn't inherit your shell PATH):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "reddit": {
      "command": "/absolute/path/to/uvx",
      "args": ["reddit-rss-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

If the file already has other top-level keys, add mcpServers alongside them rather than overwriting the file. Then:

rewrites this file, so an edit made while it's open can be discarded.

1. Fully quit the app (Cmd+Q, not just closing the window). The running app

1. Relaunch. It may take a couple of restarts before the server registers.
2. Grant permission when the app prompts to run the server.

Don't use a Custom Connector (the "add server by URL" option) for a local

server. Those are dialed from Anthropic's cloud and can't reach localhost, no

matter the cert or tunnel. The config-file method above spawns the server on your

own machine, which is what works.

Tools

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.