Pass a phrase and get back the public Reddit posts that use it, across every subreddit at once, with the title, the start of the body, the community and the post date. Use it to find where a category is discussed before you read any one subreddit.
Ask your agent
Search Reddit for five phrases about our category and tell me which subreddits come up most.
Connect RouterGrowth once, then ask in plain words. New workspaces start with $1 of credit. Get a key or read the setup guide.
A real run
One call to social.search (social post search), run through RouterGrowth on October 19, 2026. These are the first rows it returned; fields that name a person are masked.
| text | community | posted |
|---|---|---|
| What project management software do you guys use? | r/projectmanagers | 2026-10-03 |
| Project management software for people tired of project management software | r/SideProject | 2026-10-07 |
| Project Management software - which ones are working for you? | r/smallbusiness | 2025-05-06 |
Five posts for project management software, spread over r/projectmanagers, r/SideProject, r/smallbusiness and two more communities, from 2025 to this month.
Step by step
Use the words buyers type, such as a category plus best or alternative. The search runs across subreddits, not inside one.
Set platform to reddit, the query, and a limit. The response lists posts with their subreddit, so you see where the talk happens.
Count posts per subreddit to find the two or three that own the topic.
Run social.posts on each one for its recent posts, or seo.serp to see which threads Google ranks for the same phrase.
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 five phrases about our category and tell me which subreddits come up most.
Which Reddit threads rank in Google for project management software, and what do the newest Reddit posts on it say?
Find the subreddits that discuss our category, then pull the last ten posts from the top one.
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": "project management software", "limit": 5}'curl -X POST https://api.routergrowth.com/v1/run \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $ROUTERGROWTH_API_KEY" \
-d '{"capability": "social.search", "input": {"platform": "reddit", "query": "project management software", "limit": 5}}'Worth knowing
The search is not tied to one community. To list one subreddit's posts, use social.posts with r/name.
Results are matched on relevance, so a 2025 thread can sit next to one from this week. Check the date before quoting it.
Private and quarantined communities are not searched, and nothing is posted or voted.
FAQ
Put the subreddit name in the phrase, or read that subreddit's recent posts with social.posts.
No. They follow the search's relevance order. Sort on the date field if you need the newest first.
No. It is RouterGrowth's own capability over public Reddit data, independent of Reddit.
Set the limit you need; the quote scales with it and you pay for the posts that come back.
More on Reddit
Reading this as an agent? This page as markdown: /tools/reddit/search-api.md
Connect your agent once. The first calls run on the $1 that comes with signup.