Search Reddit

When to use this

Use it for brand monitoring and finding where a topic is discussed. Results have no body text or link; pass https://www.reddit.com + permalink as url to post comments (reddit_post_comments) for the full post. Posts only, no comment search.

Site-wide post search, like reddit.com/search: title, author, subreddit, score, comment count and date.

Pagination. Pass the response's after back as after; it's null at the end.

Parameters

All parameters go in the query string.

Example request

Replace YOUR_API_KEY with your key, or set LURKAPI_KEY for the code. Get a free key.

curl "https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/reddit/search?query=claude+mcp" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const params = new URLSearchParams({
  query: "claude mcp",
});
const res = await fetch(`https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/reddit/search?${params}`, {
  headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.LURKAPI_KEY },
});
const data = await res.json();
if (!data.success) throw new Error(`${data.code}: ${data.error}`);
console.log(data.posts);

import os
import requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/reddit/search",
    params={
        "query": "claude mcp",
    },
    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["LURKAPI_KEY"]},
    timeout=60,
)
data = res.json()
if not data["success"]:
    raise RuntimeError(f"{data['code']}: {data['error']}")
print(data["posts"])

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured from the live API and trimmed to a couple of items. Strings over 96 characters (mostly signed media URLs) are cut short and end in ….

{
  "success": true,
  "credits_remaining": 992,
  "credits_charged": 1,
  "posts": [
    {
      "id": "1v9n747",
      "name": "t3_1v9n747",
      "title": "Are people actually using MCP? For what?",
      "author": "ksyp21",
      "author_fullname": "t2_2rjo8r0b",
      "subreddit": "mcp",
      "subreddit_id": "t5_2s5cc",
      "subreddit_name_prefixed": "r/mcp",
      "quarantine": false,
      "permalink": "/r/mcp/comments/1v9n747/are_people_actually_using_mcp_for_what/",
      "score": 93,
      "ups": 93,
      "num_comments": 275,
      "created": 1785304145,
      "created_utc": 1785304145,
      "created_at_iso": "2026-07-29T05:49:05.000Z",
      "over_18": false,
      "spoiler": false,
      "thumbnail": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1w2grux",
      "name": "t3_1w2grux",
      "title": "What’s a good useful MCP you connected to that brings you real value?",
      "author": "Dense-Map-406",
      "author_fullname": "t2_zbqg0zcxt",
      "subreddit": "ClaudeAI",
      "subreddit_id": "t5_7t8hvt",
      "subreddit_name_prefixed": "r/ClaudeAI",
      "quarantine": false,
      "permalink": "/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1w2grux/whats_a_good_useful_mcp_you_connected_to_that/",
      "score": 412,
      "ups": 412,
      "num_comments": 249,
      "created": 1788094320,
      "created_utc": 1788094320,
      "created_at_iso": "2026-08-30T12:52:00.000Z",
      "over_18": false,
      "spoiler": false,
      "thumbnail": null
    }
  ],
  "after": "eyJjYW5kaWRhdGVzX3JldHVybmVkIjoie1wic2VjdGlvbl8xX3BpcGVsaW5lXzBfZ2xvYmFs…"
}

Response fields

Every field of a successful response. [] marks a list: a[].b is the b of each item in a. nullable fields can be null; optional fields can be missing.

Pagination

Pass the response's after back as after, with the other parameters unchanged, for the next page. It's null on the last page. Each page costs 1 credit.

let after = null;
for (let page = 1; page <= 5; page++) {
  const params = new URLSearchParams({ query: "claude mcp" });
  if (after) params.set("after", after);
  const res = await fetch(`https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/reddit/search?${params}`, {
    headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.LURKAPI_KEY },
  });
  const data = await res.json();
  if (!data.success) throw new Error(`${data.code}: ${data.error}`);
  console.log(data.posts);
  after = data.after;
  if (!after) break; // last page
}

Caching and freshness

Responses are cached for up to 1 minute, so a repeat call within that window can return the same data. It still costs 1 credit.

Errors

Errors return { success: false, error, code, docs } with the HTTP status below. Validation errors, 401/402/429 rejections and 5xx failures are free; not_found is charged (how charging works). All error codes.

Use it in Claude

Once LurkAPI is connected to Claude, this endpoint is the reddit_search tool. Ask in plain English, for example:

Use LurkAPI's reddit_search with query "claude mcp" and summarize what you find.

Claude calls reddit_search with arguments like these, and each call costs 1 credit:

{
  "query": "claude mcp"
}

Tool results skip nulls and empty lists to save tokens, and trim defaults to true.