reddit-mcp

Reddit MCP

A plug-and-play MCP server to browse, search, and read Reddit.

Demo

Here's a short video showing how to use this in Claude Desktop:

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a2e9f2dd-a9ac-453f-acd9-1791380ebdad

Features

• Detailed parameter validation with pydantic
• Uses the reliable PRAW library under the hood
• Built-in rate limiting protection thanks to PRAW

Caveats

• Only supports read features for now. If you want to use write features, upvote the issue or ! 🙌
• Tools use tokens. To use this with Claude, you may need to be a Pro user to use many tool calls. Free tier users should be fine with lighter tool usage. Your token usage is your responsibility.

Installation

Prerequisite: Reddit API credentials

Create a developer app in your Reddit account if you don't already have one. This will give you a client_id and client_secret to use in the following steps. If you already have these, you can skip this step.

Claude Desktop

To install into Claude Desktop:

• Follow the instructions here until the section "Open up the configuration file in any text editor."
• Add the following to the file depending on your preferred installation method:

Using uvx (recommended)

"mcpServers": {
  "reddit": {
    "command": "uvx",
    "args": ["reddit-mcp"],
    "env": {
      "REDDIT_CLIENT_ID": "<client_id>",
      "REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET": "<client_secret>"
    }
  }
}

Using PIP

First install the package:

pip install reddit-mcp

Then add the following to the configuration file:

"mcpServers": {
  "reddit": {
    "command": "python",
    "args": ["-m", "reddit_mcp"],
    "env": {
      "REDDIT_CLIENT_ID": "<client_id>",
      "REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET": "<client_secret>"
    }
  }
}

Others

You can use this server with any MCP client, including agent frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, etc). For an example AutoGen integration, check out the .

Tools

The tools the server will expose are:

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! See for more information.

Acknowledgments

• PRAW for an amazingly reliable library 💙