Connect Claude to Reddit over MCP.
Give Claude filtered access to Reddit — ranked signal, not the raw firehose. One MCP install for Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, and Cline. Exa, but for social.
Works with Claude, Cursor & ClineExa, but for social →Animated demo: an AI agent scans hundreds of Reddit and X posts through Prowlo, keeps the few high-intent ones, runs a draft in a sandbox, and sends a Slack digest.
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Works with
Claude
Claude Code
Cursor
Cline
WindsurfOne prompt. The right tools. A real answer.
Ask in plain English. Claude composes Prowlo's tools, reasons over filtered, ranked Reddit data, and comes back with something you can use — not a pile of raw posts to triage. Pick a task to see the calls it fires.
search_dataset· "vector databases" · 12 matches
social_search· r/MachineLearning · last 7d12 threads, ranked by relevance. Top themes: Pinecone vs Qdrant, self-hosting cost, hybrid search.
The full toolset, one install
Typed JSON, cursor pagination, read-only for Reddit and Hacker News content. You never call these by name — Claude composes them — but here's everything it gets.
| Category | Tools |
|---|---|
| Dataset reads | search_datasetlist_recordsget_recordget_dataset_summary |
| Account & activity | list_watchersget_crawl_activityget_alertsget_usageget_product_profile |
| Watcher management | watcher_createwatcher_updatewatcher_deletewatcher_add_sourcewatcher_remove_source |
| Live sources | social_searchsocial_list_postssocial_get_postsocial_get_usersocial_get_user_activitysocial_find_channels |
| Keyword tagging | keyword_listkeyword_createkeyword_updatekeyword_delete |
| Alerts | alert_listalert_createalert_updatealert_deletealert_get_deliveries |
| Trends | trend_listtrend_gettrend_createtrend_updatetrend_delete |
Fully hosted · streamable HTTP at api.prowlo.com/mcp · nothing to run
Connect to Reddit in Under Two Minutes
Fastest path: add the hosted endpoint as a custom connector, click Connect, and sign in with OAuth — no API key needed. Prefer a key? The config-block method is below.
One URL, OAuth sign-in — no API key:
- In the Claude app, add a custom connector
- Paste https://api.prowlo.com/mcp as the URL
- Click Connect and sign in with OAuth
https://api.prowlo.com/mcpOr connect with an API key
Add Prowlo to Claude Desktop
Model Context Protocol- 1Open Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
- 2Paste this URL and click Add:
https://api.prowlo.com/mcp - 3Click Connect and sign in to Prowlo in the browser window (OAuth) — no API key needed.
The tools menu lists prowlo: search, fetch, list_sources.Connect from Claude Code or free Claude
Claude Code (CLI) — one-liner install:
claude mcp add --transport http prowlo https://api.prowlo.com/mcpFree Claude / any client without native HTTP MCP — bridge via mcp-remote:
npx @anthropic-ai/mcp-remote https://api.prowlo.com/mcpThis bridges the hosted HTTP endpoint to a local stdio transport, so it works in any MCP client. You'll be prompted to authenticate with your Prowlo account.
Endpoint: https://api.prowlo.com/mcp · Full setup guide
Ask 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.
What is r/MachineLearning saying about vector databases this week?
Calls: search_dataset · social_search
Pull this thread and its comments so I can summarize the pain points people hit.
Calls: social_get_post
Find people describing the problem my product solves, then draft a reply in my voice.
Calls: search_dataset · get_product_profile
Alert me in Slack whenever "Acme" gets mentioned on Reddit.
Calls: keyword_create · alert_create
What are the rules and recent activity in r/SaaS, r/startups, and r/Entrepreneur?
Calls: social_find_channels
Show me what changed in my watched topics over the last 7 days.
Calls: list_watchers · trend_list · get_crawl_activity
Prowlo MCP vs. Generic Reddit MCP Servers
Both speak MCP. Only one filters and ranks first, so your agent gets signal it can reason over instead of a raw firehose.
| Capability | Prowlo Reddit MCP | Community Reddit MCP |
|---|---|---|
| Hosted (no local process to run) | – | |
| Works in Claude, Cursor, Cline & Windsurf | Varies | |
| Semantic search (vector embeddings) | – | |
| Filtered & ranked, not a raw firehose | – | |
| Keyword tracking with backfill | – | |
| Typed, versioned JSON your agent can parse | – | |
| Read-only — no posting on your behalf | Auto-post available | |
| No Reddit API key or rate-limit wrangling | – |
An MCP server for every client
Prowlo is an MCP server for Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, Cline, Windsurf, and any MCP-spec client — a Reddit MCP server and an X (Twitter) MCP server today, on the same typed schema and one API key. Hosted over streamable HTTP at api.prowlo.com/mcp — no server for you to run.
See also: GummySearch alternative · Reddit API pricing alternative · how the pipeline works
Frequently asked questions
If you can't find what you're looking for, get in touch.
Prowlo's MCP server gives Claude, Cursor, Cline, and any MCP-speaking client structured access to Reddit and X — filtered and ranked, not a raw firehose. Each call returns typed JSON with semantic relevance scores and cursor pagination — no raw HTML, no scraping, no Reddit API credentials. Hosted over streamable HTTP at https://api.prowlo.com/mcp.
The fastest path: in the Claude app, add https://api.prowlo.com/mcp as a custom connector, click Connect, and sign in with OAuth — no API key needed. For clients that need a key (or Cursor/Cline), generate an API key in your Prowlo settings and paste a small JSON config block pointing at https://api.prowlo.com/mcp with an Authorization: Bearer header. Either way, ask 'What is r/MachineLearning saying about vector databases this week?' to confirm the connection. MCP access is included in the free 14-day trial (no card), then $19/mo.
Yes — it's a Reddit MCP for Claude across the board: the Claude desktop and web apps, Claude Code, Cursor, and Cline all use the same hosted server. In Claude Code, run `claude mcp add --transport http prowlo https://api.prowlo.com/mcp`. In the Claude app, add it as a custom connector and sign in with OAuth. Same tools, same typed JSON — no per-client work beyond the one config.
No — and that's the point. Most direct Reddit MCP servers hit Reddit's public endpoints, which started returning 403 for unauthenticated access in May 2026 — so they break. The Prowlo MCP serves your Watchers' Dataset from our own residential-proxy crawl, indexed for semantic search. Claude reasons over clean structured records, and the access keeps working.
Dataset reads (free): search_dataset, list_records, get_record, get_dataset_summary, list_watchers, get_crawl_activity, get_alerts, get_usage, get_product_profile. Watcher management (free): watcher_create, watcher_update, watcher_delete, watcher_add_source, watcher_remove_source. Live passthrough (1 credit each): social_search, social_list_posts, social_get_post, social_get_user, social_get_user_activity, social_find_channels (platform = reddit | hackernews). Keyword tagging (free): keyword_list, keyword_create, keyword_update, keyword_delete. Alerts (free): alert_list, alert_create, alert_update, alert_delete, alert_get_deliveries. Trends (free): trend_list, trend_get, trend_create, trend_update, trend_delete. All read-only.
The MCP server, your Watchers, and Dataset reads all come with a free 14-day trial — no card on file. After the trial it's $19/mo for the full plan: 25 Watchers across subreddits, Reddit users, Hacker News, Mastodon, RSS & X, checked hourly, MCP + REST + webhooks. Live Reddit passthrough is included with a daily fair-use cap.
No. The v1 MCP is read-only. We deliberately do not expose write tools (post, comment, vote, DM) — the compliance risk is real and there's no clear customer pull yet. If you need to draft a reply, your agent generates the text; you do the posting from your own Reddit account.
Community servers (mcp-server-reddit by Hawstein, reddit-mcp-buddy, etc.) wrap Reddit's public endpoints and hand Claude a search box. As of May 2026 those unauthenticated endpoints return 403, so most have stopped working. Prowlo crawls through its own residential proxies — not the public endpoints that broke — and embeds every record for semantic search, so Claude keeps getting ranked signal. Reddit and X land under the same schema.
Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Cline, Windsurf, and any client that speaks streamable HTTP MCP. We maintain dedicated setup snippets for each. Prowlo is hosted over streamable HTTP at api.prowlo.com/mcp — there's no server for you to run.