reddit-research-mcp

Gives Claude structured access to Reddit discussions — no API key required.

Better than Google's AI overview: multi-pass search, full thread reading, time-aware filtering, explicit counter-evidence surfacing.

Quickstart (uvx — no install needed)

Add to your Claude Code .mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "reddit-research": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["reddit-research-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Code. Done.

Quickstart (pip)

pip install reddit-research-mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "reddit-research": {
      "command": "reddit-research-mcp"
    }
  }
}

Tools

Output shape

{
  "ok": true,
  "summary_text": "Reddit is broadly positive on '...' — ...",
  "data": {
    "verdict": "broadly_positive | broadly_critical | mixed",
    "highly_upvoted": [...],
    "controversial": [...],
    "cited_posts": [...],
    "split": { "highly_upvoted": 5, "controversial": 2, "total": 93 }
  }
}

Each post: id, title, url, score, upvote_ratio, created_utc, subreddit, flair

Parameters

research_topic(query, since="12m", depth=2)

• since: "1m" "3m" "6m" "12m" "2y"
• depth: 1 = single pass, 2 = multi-pass (recommended)

Caveats

• No auth required — uses Reddit's public JSON API + Arctic Shift
• Reddit consensus can be confidently wrong on medical, legal, and finance topics
• This tool surfaces what Reddit says, not what is true