Reddit's logged-out crackdown broke Reddit MCPs, so this free read-only MCP reads via your Chrome
investigatormaker · reddit · 2026-09-26
Reddit now redirects all signed-out requests — including the public . endpoints — to a login page, breaking the read side of most unauthenticated Reddit MCP servers. In response, the author released ThreadFox Lite, a free MIT-licensed read-only MCP that reads Reddit through your own signed-in Chrome via Microsoft's Playwright extension. Tools include subredditrules (with self-promotion rules flagged), findcommunities, accountcheck (karma, removals, shadowban signals), and poststatus. Hard-won design lessons: a machine-wide file lock allowing one Reddit read at a time (concurrent bursts earned the author a two-hour 429), auto-closing Chrome after 10 idle minutes, zero write actions, and SHA-256-verified runtime downloads. The free Lite promotes a $49 paid kit, but doesn't require it.
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