Reddit Mcp

reddit-mcp

**Read Reddit from Claude without an API key.** No app registration, no account.

Reddit's data API is effectively closed. New apps need a stated moderation use case and manual approval, anonymous `.json` access is blocked, and the free tier that third-party tools were built on is gone. Most "Reddit for LLMs" integrations now start with a credentials dance you can't complete.

Reddit still publishes public Atom/RSS feeds for every subreddit, thread, user and search. This is a small local MCP server that reads those feeds and hands Claude the fields that matter: browse a subreddit, read a thread and its comments, search across the site.

Those feeds are published to be fetched, which is why this keeps working. It reads a supported path in a format frozen since 2005, so there is no markup to break when Reddit ships its next redesign.

**What you don't get:** scores, upvote ratios, comment counts. Those exist only in the gated API, and nothing here fakes them. Titles, authors, timestamps, and the full text of posts and comments all come through.

Install

`reddit-rss-mcp` is on PyPI (the plain `reddit-mcp` name belongs to an unrelated project). You need [`uv`](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/) on your machine; it handles Python and dependencies itself, and there is nothing else to set up.

**Claude Code:**

claude mcp add reddit -s user -- uvx reddit-rss-mcp

Verify with `claude mcp list` (should show `reddit: ✓ Connected`). If Claude can't find `uvx`, use its absolute path (`which uvx`) instead of the bare command.

**Claude Desktop, one click:** download `reddit-rss-mcp.mcpb` from the [latest release](https://github.com/jorgen-k/reddit-mcp/releases/latest) and drag it into **Settings → Extensions**. No JSON editing, no absolute paths. (It runs `uvx reddit-rss-mcp`, so `uv` still needs to be on your PATH.)

**Claude Desktop & Cowork, manual config:** add this to `~/Library/Application Support/Claud