# Reddit for your AI agent: find the threads, read every comment

RouterGrowth gives an agent Reddit through one MCP server: search posts by keyword, pull a subreddit's or a user's recent posts, and read the full comment thread under any post. It is the fastest way to hear a market describe its own problems, and each call is paid on its own.

HTML page: https://www.routergrowth.com/tools/reddit

## What your agent can do

| Capability | What it returns | Providers | From | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [`social.search`](https://www.routergrowth.com/catalog/social.search) | Public posts matching a keyword on X, LinkedIn, Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or Facebook: brand mentions, category conversations, competitor chatter. | Apify | $0.002 per result | live |
| [`social.posts`](https://www.routergrowth.com/catalog/social.posts) | Recent public posts for a social handle. | Apify | $0.002 per result | live |
| [`social.comments`](https://www.routergrowth.com/catalog/social.comments) | Comments on one public post URL (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, Reddit, and replies to a post on X): text, author, likes, replies, time. | Apify | $0.002 per result | live |

## Ask it like this

- Find the Reddit threads from this quarter where people complain about cold email deliverability, and summarise what they tried. (`social.search`, `social.comments`)
- Which subreddits talk about our category, and what do the top threads recommend? (`social.search`, `social.posts`)
- Watch r/sales for posts that mention our competitors and send me the new ones every morning. (`social.posts`, `social.search`)

## Connect

MCP server: `https://api.routergrowth.com/mcp` (OAuth, or an API key header).

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http routergrowth https://api.routergrowth.com/mcp
```

```bash
npm install -g routergrowth && routergrowth setup
routergrowth run -c social.search -i '{"platform": "reddit", "query": "cold email deliverability", "limit": 50}'
```

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.routergrowth.com/v1/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ROUTERGROWTH_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"capability": "social.search", "input": {"platform": "reddit", "query": "cold email deliverability", "limit": 50}}'
```

## Worth knowing

- **Read, not write.** The catalog reads Reddit. It does not post, comment or vote. The skills that draft replies hand them to a person to post.
- **Search or a whole subreddit.** Keyword search is priced per post returned. Pulling a subreddit or a user is priced per run plus per post, so ask for the number you will read.
- **Threads are where the value is.** social.comments returns the comments under a post with author, likes and replies, which is where the objections and the tool names are.

## Questions

### Is there a Reddit MCP server?

RouterGrowth is an MCP server with Reddit search, subreddit and user posts, and comment threads as tools. It needs no Reddit API application of your own.

### How do I monitor Reddit for my brand or keywords?

Schedule social.search for each keyword and keep the posts you have not seen. For a subreddit, schedule social.posts on r/name. The Reddit surface map skill packages the first sweep.

### Can I use Reddit for lead generation?

Yes: find the threads where people describe the problem, read who is asking, and reach them where they work. The social listening workflows do this end to end.

### Does it include comments?

Yes. Pass a post URL to social.comments and you get the thread: text, author, likes, replies and time.

## Related

- Workflow: [Reach founders whose teams complain about their CRM](https://www.routergrowth.com/workflows/listening-crm-complaints.md)
- Workflow: [Reach teams complaining about cold email deliverability](https://www.routergrowth.com/workflows/listening-cold-email-deliverability.md)
- Guide: [Brand monitoring across web, social, news, reviews and AI answers](https://www.routergrowth.com/use-cases/brand-monitoring.md)
- Guide: [Social media API: profiles, posts and comments from X, Reddit, LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram and YouTube](https://www.routergrowth.com/use-cases/linkedin-and-social-signals.md)
- Skill: [Social lead discovery](https://www.routergrowth.com/skills/social-lead-discovery.md)
- Skill: [Reddit surface map](https://www.routergrowth.com/skills/reddit-surface-map.md)