Social listening tools for AI agents: Reddit, X, LinkedIn, reviews and news

Q: Can I monitor Reddit and X for keywords?

Yes. Schedule social.search for each keyword on each network and keep the posts you have not seen.

Q: Does it cover review sites?

reviews.search reads recent reviews for a place on Google Maps or Yelp. Other review sites are read with web search and scraping.

Social listening tools

What can your agent do for social listening?

Each row is one tool your agent can call. The price is the lowest a successful call costs at list price. The exact figure is quoted before every run.

Tool	What it returns	Providers	From
Social post searchsocial.search	Public posts matching a keyword on X, LinkedIn, Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or Facebook: brand mentions, category conversations, competitor chatter.	Hacker News SearchApify	$0.002per result
Post commentssocial.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	$0.002per result
Social posts & contentsocial.posts	Recent public posts for a social handle.	Apify	$0.002per result
Social profile lookupsocial.profile	Public profile data for a social handle: name, followers, bio, verified, plus the bio link, every listed link, the person's own domain (link hubs such as Linktree excluded), a public or business email when the profile exposes one, profile URL, business flag, category and location when the platform provides them.	Apify	$0.002per match
Business reviewsreviews.search	Recent reviews for a place on Google Maps or Yelp: rating, text, author, date and the owner's reply, plus the place's overall score.	Apify	$0.004per result
News searchnews.search	Google News articles for a query and location: title, source, snippet, URL and publication time.	DataForSEOFirecrawl	$0.004per search
Agent web searchweb.search	Semantic or keyword web search returning sources an agent can cite.	DataForSEOFirecrawlApify	$0.004per search

Every tool has a page with its input schema, its output fields and the price on each provider. Browse the whole catalog or see how plans lower every price.

In practice

What do you ask it?

You do not call tools by name. You describe the job, and the agent finds the tools, shows the price and runs them.

Sweep X, Reddit, LinkedIn and the news for mentions of our brand and our three competitors this month, with sentiment.

social.search news.search

Every morning, send me the new Reddit and X posts where someone asks for a tool like ours.

social.search

Who is complaining about our competitor in public, and where do they work?

social.search social.comments social.profile

Connect

How do you connect it?

One MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, or the same calls over the CLI and REST. The example runs social.search.

MCP server

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

CLI

npm install -g routergrowth && routergrowth setup
routergrowth run -c social.search -i '{"platform": "reddit", "query": "RouterGrowth", "limit": 25}'

REST

curl -X POST https://api.routergrowth.com/v1/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ROUTERGROWTH_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"capability": "social.search", "input": {"platform": "reddit", "query": "RouterGrowth", "limit": 25}}'

In claude.ai and ChatGPT, add https://api.routergrowth.com/mcp as a connector and approve the workspace in the browser. Setup for every client.

Worth knowing

What should you know before you start?

Seven networks, one search call

The same capability searches each network. The agent runs it per network and merges the results.

From a mention to a person

A profile lookup returns who posted and the links in their bio, so a mention can become a conversation.

You set the schedule

Daily, weekly or once before a launch. You pay for the posts returned, not for a seat.

Workflows

What do people build with it?

Complete jobs that call these tools, each with the prompt to paste and the cost of a run.

WorkflowReach founders whose teams complain about their CRMPrompt, stages and cost → WorkflowReach teams complaining about cold email deliverabilityPrompt, stages and cost → GuideBrand monitoring across web, social, news, reviews and AI answersRead the guide → GuideSocial media API: profiles, posts and comments from X, Reddit, LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram and YouTubeRead the guide → SkillBrand mention sweepEvery public mention of the brand, founder and competitors in 90 days, with sentiment and the threads where a human reply would matter.Install the skill → SkillSocial lead discoveryLeads from X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube: who posts about the topic, who asks under a competitor's post, the website, bio links and email on each profile, a verified address, and the Instagram DM from your own account behind a gate.Install the skill →

Social listening workflows Every workflow

FAQ

Questions about social listening with an AI agent

What are the best social listening tools for an AI agent?

Ones it can query directly. RouterGrowth exposes search across seven social networks, comments, reviews and news through one MCP server, so the agent runs the sweep and writes the summary.

Can I monitor Reddit and X for keywords?

Yes. Schedule social.search for each keyword on each network and keep the posts you have not seen.

Does it measure sentiment?

The capabilities return the posts. Your agent reads them and labels sentiment, which lets you define it for your own category.

Does it cover review sites?

reviews.search reads recent reviews for a place on Google Maps or Yelp. Other review sites are read with web search and scraping.

How is it priced compared with a monitoring tool?

Per result returned, on a prepaid balance, so a sweep costs what it reads. There is no monthly plan for a fixed number of mentions.

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Social listening for your AI agent: every mention, on every network, on one key