Reddit's own search is built for a person scrolling. social.search gives an agent the same posts as data: title, start of the body, subreddit, date, upvotes and comment count, across every public subreddit in one call. The agent can then drop the ads, sort by replies and keep what matters.
Ask your agent
Search Reddit for invoicing apps for freelancers, drop anything posted by a vendor, and show the threads with the most replies.
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A real run
One call to social.search (social post search), run through RouterGrowth on October 26, 2026. These are the first rows it returned; fields that name a person are masked.
| text | community | posted | replies |
|---|---|---|---|
| Invoicerr (V1.0.1) - Open Source Invoices and Quotes app for freelancers | r/selfhosted | 2025-07-02 | 85 |
| I built an invoicing app that chases late payments for you. Free month of Pro for anyone who wants to try it | r/micro_saas | 2026-10-13 | 0 |
| Best Invoicing Software for Freelancers in 2026: 5 Top Picks | r/invoice_simple_app | 2026-10-23 | 0 |
Eight posts for an invoicing query: one self-hosted thread with 85 replies, three posts from a vendor's own subreddit, and one off topic 2021 story.
Step by step
Use the phrase a buyer would type. The search covers every public subreddit.
platform reddit, the query and a limit. Each post comes with its community and engagement.
Drop vendor subreddits, keep posts with replies, and sort by date or by comment count.
Run social.comments on the posts worth reading to see what people actually said.
Price
List prices on Reddit, read from the catalog when this page was built. The exact figure is quoted before every run, and a monthly plan lowers it.
In practice
You describe the job; the agent picks the calls, shows the price and runs them.
Search Reddit for invoicing apps for freelancers, drop anything posted by a vendor, and show the threads with the most replies.
Find Reddit posts about switching CRMs, then read the comments on the two busiest threads.
Connect
One MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, or the same call over the CLI and REST with the input above.
claude mcp add --transport http routergrowth https://api.routergrowth.com/mcp
npm install -g routergrowth && routergrowth setup
routergrowth run -c social.search -i '{"platform": "reddit", "query": "best invoicing app for freelancers", "limit": 8}'curl -X POST https://api.routergrowth.com/v1/run \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $ROUTERGROWTH_API_KEY" \
-d '{"capability": "social.search", "input": {"platform": "reddit", "query": "best invoicing app for freelancers", "limit": 8}}'Worth knowing
One of eight results here was an old story that only shared a word with the query. Let the agent filter on text and community.
Three results came from an app's own subreddit. Check the community before quoting a post as user opinion.
Private communities are not searched, and nothing is posted, voted or messaged.
FAQ
The result is data, not a page: every post has its community, date and engagement as fields, so an agent can sort and filter it.
Add subreddit:name to the query, or list one subreddit's recent posts with social.posts.
No. It returns posts. Pass a post URL to social.comments for the discussion.
No. It is a RouterGrowth capability over public Reddit data, independent of Reddit.
More on Reddit
Reading this as an agent? This page as markdown: /tools/reddit/search.md
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