The Reddit MCP Server, Built for Claude
Connect Claude to Reddit in one click. The Prowlo MCP gives Claude direct access to a scored Reddit opportunity feed, subreddit moderation patterns, keyword tracking, and reply drafts — without sharing your Reddit password or letting Claude post on your behalf.
Works with Claude Cowork, Claude Desktop, and Claude Code. 7-day free trial · no credit card.
Direct Reddit Access Gives Claude a Firehose, Not a Signal
Plenty of community Reddit MCP servers exist. They wrap the public Reddit API and let Claude search, fetch, and post. That works for casual research. For lead generation it backfires — here is why teams switch to a curated MCP instead.
No Filtering, No Scoring
Generic Reddit MCPs return raw search results. Claude has no way to know which threads are actually buying-intent and which are five-year-old meme posts. You spend the conversation triaging instead of acting.
Bans Are One Bad Reply Away
Subreddit rules are unwritten and brutal. r/SaaS, r/startups, r/entrepreneur each have different tolerances for self-promotion. A community MCP cannot see that. Claude drafts a reply that reads as marketing, the mod removes it, and your account picks up a strike.
Rate Limits and Auth Hassle
Self-hosted Reddit MCPs need a Reddit app, a refresh token, and a process running on your machine. Half the setup guides start with "create a script app at reddit.com/prefs/apps." Prowlo's MCP is hosted, OAuth-based, and rate limit free for plan-included usage.
What Claude Can Do With the Prowlo MCP
Nine MCP tools, grouped into two areas: opportunity intelligence and keyword management. Claude reasons over them naturally — you ask in plain English, the right tools fire under the hood.
Browse the scored opportunity feed
list_opportunities · get_opportunity
Ask Claude to surface today's top high-intent threads, filter by subreddit, or pull the full context for a single post — including opportunity score, risk score, subreddit norms, and engagement guidance.
Draft a reply with subreddit-aware tone
submit_draft · get_product_profile
Claude reads your product positioning, the thread, and the subreddit's moderation pattern, then drafts a reply tuned to community norms. The draft lands in your Prowlo dashboard for review — never auto-posted.
Read subreddit moderation patterns
get_subreddit_intelligence
"What gets removed in r/SaaS?" returns the actual data — promotion tolerance, mod strictness, removal rate by post type, and engagement windows. Claude uses it to recommend whether a thread is worth replying to.
Manage tracked keywords from a chat
keyword_list · keyword_create · keyword_update · keyword_delete
Add a competitor name as a tracked term, pause a noisy keyword, or list what is currently active — without switching tabs. New keywords backfill 7 days of matches immediately.
Connect Claude to Reddit in Under Two Minutes
Two paths. Pick the one that matches your Claude product.
Claude Cowork — one-click OAuth
If you use Claude Cowork on desktop, the connection is OAuth2. No API keys, no JSON, no restart.
- 1In Cowork, open the connector marketplace and search Prowlo.
- 2Click Connect. A browser tab opens; approve access.
- 3Try: “Show me today's top Reddit opportunities.”
Screenshot — Cowork connector marketplace, Prowlo card with Connect button
Claude Desktop & Claude Code — API key
Standard MCP configuration. Generate a key, drop in a JSON block, restart.
- 1In Prowlo, go to Settings → API Keys and click Generate Key.
- 2Add the snippet below to your Claude MCP config and replace
YOUR_API_KEY. - 3Restart Claude. Ask: “What are my Prowlo opportunities for r/SaaS this week?”
{
"mcpServers": {
"prowlo": {
"url": "https://api.prowlo.com/mcp",
"headers": {
"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
}
}
}
}Ask Claude in Plain English. It Figures Out the Tools.
You don't call MCP tools by name. You ask Claude what you want, and Claude composes the calls. Here are the prompts that pay rent.
“Show me today’s top Reddit opportunities, sorted by intent score, only those with risk under 50.”
Calls: list_opportunities
“Pull the full context for opportunity 8421 and draft a reply that fits r/SaaS.”
Calls: get_opportunity · get_subreddit_intelligence · get_product_profile · submit_draft
“Which subreddits are too risky to engage in this week based on my feed?”
Calls: list_opportunities · get_subreddit_intelligence
“Add "headless CMS" and "Sanity alternative" as tracked keywords. Pause "CMS" — too noisy.”
Calls: keyword_create · keyword_update
“Summarize the moderation patterns in r/startups, r/Entrepreneur, and r/SaaS for promotional posts.”
Calls: get_subreddit_intelligence
“Find the three highest-intent threads from the last 48 hours and write a thread of replies in my voice.”
Calls: list_opportunities · get_product_profile · submit_draft
From "Find me leads" to a Posted Draft, Inside Claude
The MCP collapses the loop: discovery, qualification, drafting, review. Claude does three of those; you do the fourth.
Prowlo MCP vs. Generic Reddit MCP Servers
Both speak MCP. Only one is built for using Reddit as a sales channel without getting banned.
| Capability | Prowlo Reddit MCP | Community Reddit MCP |
|---|---|---|
| Hosted (no local process to run) | – | |
| OAuth2 from Claude Cowork | – | |
| Opportunity scoring (intent + risk) | – | |
| Subreddit moderation patterns | – | |
| Keyword tracking with backfill | – | |
| Engagement briefs and product context | – | |
| Draft review before any post hits Reddit | Auto-post available | |
| Raw Reddit search & comments fetch | Indirect, via curated feed |
How We Treat Your Reddit, Your Data, and Claude's Access
No Reddit credentials in Claude
Claude never sees your Reddit password, cookies, or refresh tokens. The Prowlo MCP exposes only data Prowlo has already ingested via its read-only Reddit pipeline.
Revocable in one click
OAuth-connected Cowork access can be revoked from your Prowlo dashboard at any time. API keys can be rotated or deleted independently per workspace.
No auto-posting, ever
The MCP cannot publish to Reddit. submit_draft always lands in your Prowlo dashboard for human review — the design decision that keeps accounts and subreddits intact.
Keep Reading
MCP Setup Guide
Full walkthrough for every supported client, plus the available tools reference and example prompts.
Read the guideOpportunity Feed
How Prowlo finds high-intent Reddit threads in the first place — the data layer Claude reasons over.
Learn moreKeyword Tracking
Manage tracked terms from Claude or the dashboard. Real-time matching, 7-day backfill, per-keyword alerts.
Learn moreThe Reddit MCP server is Prowlo’s implementation of the Model Context Protocol — an open standard from Anthropic that lets Claude and other AI assistants talk to external tools through a structured interface. Instead of copying data between Reddit, your dashboard, and Claude, the MCP gives Claude direct, read-and-write access to your Prowlo workspace: opportunity feed, subreddit intelligence, keyword tracking, product profile, and reply drafts. It is hosted at https://api.prowlo.com/mcp and works with Claude Cowork, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf.
The fastest path is Claude Cowork: open the connector marketplace, search for Prowlo, click Connect, and approve OAuth in your browser — no API keys, no JSON config. For Claude Desktop or Claude Code, generate an API key in your Prowlo settings and paste a small JSON block (mcpServers.prowlo with url https://api.prowlo.com/mcp and an Authorization header) into the MCP config. Restart Claude and ask "show me today’s top Reddit opportunities" to confirm the connection.
No — and that is the point. Direct Reddit MCP servers expose the full Reddit API, which usually means Claude searches blindly, hits rate limits, and surfaces low-intent threads. The Prowlo MCP exposes a curated layer instead: only the posts that match your product profile or tracked keywords, already scored for opportunity strength and engagement risk, and accompanied by subreddit moderation context. Claude reasons over a clean signal, not the firehose.
list_opportunities, get_opportunity, submit_draft, get_product_profile, get_subreddit_intelligence, plus keyword_list, keyword_create, keyword_update, and keyword_delete. That covers browsing the feed, drilling into a specific thread, drafting a reply with subreddit-aware guidance, reading your positioning, viewing community moderation patterns, and managing tracked keywords — all without leaving the Claude window.
The MCP server is included on every paid Prowlo plan at no extra cost. The 7-day free trial includes full MCP access so you can test the Claude workflow before committing. There is no per-request pricing on the MCP itself — your normal Prowlo plan limits apply (opportunity volume, tracked keywords, seats).
No. The submit_draft tool sends a draft to your Prowlo dashboard for your review — it does not publish to Reddit. Posting to Reddit always happens manually from your account, after you read the draft and the engagement brief. This is deliberate: Reddit posts and replies are permanent, and a wrong move can cost you the account or the subreddit. Claude does the writing; you do the posting.
Community servers (reddit-mcp-buddy, generic Reddit API wrappers) hand Claude a Reddit search box. They are useful for casual research, but they do not score posts, do not understand subreddit moderation patterns, and do not stop Claude from drafting a reply that will get banned in r/SaaS or removed in r/startups. Prowlo adds the layer that matters for lead generation: signal filtering, dual scoring (intent + risk), per-subreddit norms, and a workflow that keeps a human in the loop before anything is posted.
Claude Cowork (desktop) via OAuth2, Claude Desktop and Claude Code via the standard MCP config, plus any other client that speaks streamable HTTP MCP — including Cursor and Windsurf. We maintain dedicated setup guides for each in our help center.