Reddit switches off RSS on 13 Nov 2026. If a bot, a reader or an agent of yours depends on a Reddit RSS feed, it stops working that day. This post is about a drop in replacement that also does more than RSS ever could.
Most agent setups that touch Reddit today do it by scraping a page of results or polling the public JSON endpoints every few minutes. That works until it doesn’t: pages scroll past between checks, rate limits hit at the worst time, and now RSS is going away too.
Redlisten is a hosted MCP server for public Reddit posts and comments. No install, no package to run locally, just a URL and, for most tools, a free key.
Connect it:
{ "mcpServers": { "redlisten": { "url": "https://api.redlisten.com/mcp",
"headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer rl_live_YOUR_KEY" } } } }
Claude Code:
claude mcp add --transport http redlisten https://api.redlisten.com/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer rl_live_YOUR_KEY"
What your agent gets:
Two tools work with no key at all: reddit_preview and subreddit_preview, so an agent can try Redlisten before anyone signs up for anything.
With a free key: search_reddit, latest_posts, latest_comments, get_thread, user_history, list_streams, create_stream, stream_items.
Paid plans add keyword_trends, compare_keywords and top_communities.
The free plan gives 250 requests a month with no card. Pro is $29 a month.
Why this matters this week specifically:
Most Reddit tools poll a page of the newest posts every few minutes and miss whatever scrolls past in between. Redlisten collects posts and comments as they are posted and keeps the last 30 days searchable, so an agent asking “what’s being said about X right now” gets a real answer, not a stale page.
Redlisten is not affiliated with Reddit, Inc.
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