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I built a tiny MCP server to use Reddit from Claude after Reddit blocked anonymous API access : r/ClaudeAI

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If you've noticed your Reddit MCP server suddenly returning nothing, here's why: Reddit now blocks anonymous access to its JSON API at the network level. Requests come back as a 403 "blocked by network security" page. I tested it from a home residential IP, a VPN, and even a paid residential-proxy scraper, and all of them get blocked. On top of that, self-service API key creation ended in late 2025, so you can't just make a new app to get OAuth creds without going through a manual approval queue. What still works: Reddit's RSS feeds. So I wrote a small MCP server that reads Reddit entirely through RSS. No API key, no OAuth, no scraping service, and it works even from a blocked IP. Three tools: • search_reddit (global or scoped to one subreddit) • browse_subreddit (hot/new/top/rising) • get_post_comments (reads the user comments on a post) It's dependency-free Node, so install is just an npx line in your MCP config. Honest limitations, since it's RSS and not the real API: • comments com

If you've noticed your Reddit MCP server suddenly returning nothing, here's why: Reddit now blocks anonymous access to its JSON API at the network level. Requests come back as a 403 "blocked by network security" page. I tested it from a home residential IP, a VPN, and even a paid residential-proxy scraper, and all of them get blocked. On top of that, self-service API key creation ended in late 2025, so you can't just make a new app to get OAuth creds without going through a manual approval queue. What still works: Reddit's RSS feeds. So I wrote a small MCP server that reads Reddit entirely…

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