RedditAPIs MCP server

redditapis-mcp

Official Model Context Protocol server for redditapis.com, the Reddit API as native tools for Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and any MCP client. It turns Reddit reads (search, subreddit listings, comment trees, user profiles, community metadata) into typed tools your agent can call directly, plus (since 0.2.0) managing your own redditapis.com monitors and webhooks, and (since 0.4.0) sending the team product feedback the agent drafted and you reviewed.

Ask your agent to search Reddit for a topic, read a community's top posts of the week, pull a user's comment history, surface the redditors talking about a product, or read a subreddit's rules before you engage, and it calls the API for you. It can also set up a monitor that watches a subreddit for new posts matching a filter and delivers them to a webhook, then check what it's actually delivered. Every tool maps to a REST endpoint at https://api.redditapis.com; the server holds no state and forwards your API key on each call.

Quick start

No install needed. Run with npx. You need one thing: an API key from redditapis.com. Reads work with just that key, so there is no account login or session step to set up. Monitor/webhook management additionally requires an active monitoring plan (monitoring has no free tier).

Setup

Claude Desktop

Edit claudedesktopconfig.json (Settings > Developer > Edit Config):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "reddit": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "redditapis-mcp@latest"],
      "env": { "REDDITAPIS_KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop. The reddit_* tools appear in the tool picker.

Claude Code

claude mcp add reddit --env REDDITAPIS_KEY=YOUR_API_KEY -- npx -y redditapis-mcp@latest

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json (or Settings > MCP > Add New Server):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "reddit": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "redditapis-mcp@latest"],
      "env": { "REDDITAPIS_KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "reddit": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "redditapis-mcp@latest"],
      "env": { "REDDITAPIS_KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

VS Code (Copilot / agent mode)

.vscode/mcp.json in your workspace, or the user-level MCP settings:

{
  "servers": {
    "reddit": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "redditapis-mcp@latest"],
      "env": { "REDDITAPIS_KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

Configuration

Authentication is a Bearer token: the server sends Authorization: Bearer on every request.

Tools

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.