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Reddit search API and X search API: posts by keyword on Reddit, X, LinkedIn and TikTok, per call

Give your agent a keyword and get the posts back as rows: title, text, author, score, date and the link, from Reddit, X, LinkedIn or TikTok, all through 鹦鹉AI, from 0.35 credits/success at its own rate. The networks are not alternatives to each other; the network is the choice, and the rows are relayed as the tool returns them.

Billed per call, for what you use. No card required.

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1 · Set your agent up, once

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set up 鹦鹉AI — https://parrot.amorist.cn/llms.txt

2 · Then ask for the job

the prompt
Using 鹦鹉AI, search Reddit and X for posts mentioning our product name from the last week, show me the price per source first, then group them by theme, flag anything that reads as a complaint, and give me the link for each.

Why this prompt works

Name the sources

Each network is its own shelf with its own tools. Reddit and X is two calls; all four is four.

Put a window on it

X's official recent search covers the last seven days and the archive call the rest. Say which week you mean.

Ask for the price per source

The rates differ by an order of magnitude between tools. 鹦鹉AI prints each before the call, so the agent can say what a daily watch will spend.

Keep the link

The rows carry the permalink. A complaint is only useful if a human can open it.

Why 鹦鹉AI

Why go through 鹦鹉AI

No subscription, no seats

Charged per call. No card, no minimum; top up the prepaid balance.

Switch by changing a word

Another tool is a different word in the prompt, not a new integration.

From the field

What people actually struggle with

Keyword-monitoring threads are a parade of launches: of the ~165 Reddit and X posts read in August 2026, one launch campaign ran to six near-identical tweets and two reposts into promotional subreddits, and a dozen monitoring tools pitched themselves to the same questions. These five are people hitting the wall themselves.

Reddit closed the side door

“Reddit now blocks anonymous access to its JSON API at the network level.”

r/ClaudeAI, 20 points

What this page can do about it:That poster's Reddit MCP stopped returning rows and was rebuilt on RSS. The Reddit tools here have their own access, priced per call, and the agent calls them with the same setup line it uses for everything else.

A developer app just to search is the wrong shape

“They require setting up Reddit developer apps and OAuth tokens just to do basic searches.”

r/mcp, 57 points

What this page can do about it:Agreed, and none of the Reddit tools here asks for one. The honest limit is that they return posts through Reddit's own search; the comment tree and the vote are still the official API's.

The official X rate adds up fast

“22 credits for 2 requests? This is just for a basic post search.”

X

What this page can do about it:That is X's per-post rate, and the official tool here carries exactly it. The two scraper tools sit beside it at a fraction of the price, so the choice is yours.

Programmatic searching can get an account flagged

“doing any programmatic actions outside of the official API will flag an account”

X, 1,287 likes

What this page can do about it:That warning is about your account. The scraper tools here use none of yours, so the risk sits with the tool; the page does not call that safe, it calls it theirs.

The old objection, still the objection

“Why is he charging for low volume pull requests too?”

r/sysadmin, 5,377 points

What this page can do about it:Low volume is what per-call pricing is for. Ten posts a day on a scraper tool is a few credits a month, with no tier, no minimum and the rate printed before each call.

The detail

What actually differs

Reddit is three third-party tools, none of them Reddit, and all run on 鹦鹉AI's own key with no developer app.

What they search is Reddit's own search, so relevance is Reddit's, and the rows are posts: comment trees, votes and anything that writes to Reddit still need an approved app of your own.

X is the one platform with an official tool.

X's recent search carries X's own per-post rate, and the archive call covers history at the same rate. The two scraper tools sit beside it at a lower price and use no account of yours. They are also scraping, and the tool carries that risk, not the page.

LinkedIn and TikTok are narrower shelves.

LinkedIn post search is one tool reading what Google has indexed of public posts, so a post the index has not reached is not there. TikTok keyword search returns videos, with three tools. There is no Facebook or Instagram keyword search in the catalog, and monitoring is the agent's loop: no alerts, no schedule and no sentiment score come with the rows.

Background

What is a Reddit search API, and what happened to the official one?

A Reddit search API returns the posts matching a keyword as data, across every subreddit, with the score, the comment count and the permalink. Reddit's own API still exists, but self-service app keys stopped, anonymous JSON calls now answer with a 403, and access runs through an approval queue, which is why the forum's Reddit MCP servers keep breaking and rebuilding on RSS. X's official search API is open but capped per month. The tools on this page read both networks for you, plus LinkedIn's public posts as Google indexes them and TikTok's keyword search, and return rows; the official X call is here too.

Questions

Before you start

Can I monitor a keyword continuously?

The agent can, by calling on a schedule you give it. 鹦鹉AI has no alerting, no scheduler and no sentiment layer; it returns the posts and the price. A daily watch on two sources is two calls a day.

Which tool should my agent use?

The platform decides the shelf. Within it, the agent picks, or you tell it; 鹦鹉AI does not route or fail over between them.

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