To search inside one community, put subreddit:name in front of the keyword, such as subreddit:smallbusiness invoicing. social.search passes it to Reddit and returns the matching posts from that subreddit only, with title, date, upvotes and comment count. Good for reading how one audience talks about a problem.
Ask your agent
Search r/smallbusiness for invoicing and tell me which tools people name most.
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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 | posted | upvotes | replies |
|---|---|---|---|
| What software are you using to invoicing? | 2026-09-06 | 11 | 107 |
| Anyone else planning on adding a “Tariff charge” line on their invoices and receipts? | 2025-04-08 | 1288 | 100 |
| Can I just rant about customers not paying invoices on time? | 2026-10-11 | 107 | 106 |
All five posts came from r/smallbusiness: a software question, a pricing debate and a late payment rant, each with 100 comments or more.
Step by step
Write it as subreddit:name, without the r/, then the keyword: subreddit:smallbusiness invoicing.
platform reddit and that query. Check that every post's community is the one you asked for.
Sort by replies to find the discussions people joined, not only the ones they upvoted.
social.comments on a post URL returns what people wrote under it.
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 r/smallbusiness for invoicing and tell me which tools people name most.
Find the busiest r/smallbusiness threads about late payments and summarize their top comments.
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": "subreddit:smallbusiness invoicing", "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": "subreddit:smallbusiness invoicing", "limit": 5}}'Worth knowing
There is no separate subreddit field. In this run the operator held: every post was from r/smallbusiness.
social.posts with r/name lists a subreddit's latest posts. It does not filter by keyword.
Results follow relevance, so a 2025 thread sat next to this month's. Sort on the date yourself.
FAQ
In the query, use subreddit:smallbusiness. In social.posts, the handle is r/smallbusiness.
Run one query per subreddit, or drop the operator to search all of Reddit and group by community.
No. Only public communities are covered.
This run took about 40 seconds for five posts. Plan for that when an agent waits on it.
More on Reddit
Reading this as an agent? This page as markdown: /tools/reddit/subreddit-search.md
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