GummySearch API alternative: Reddit alerts via the AyeWatch API and MCP
With GummySearch closed, developers can create Reddit monitors over REST or MCP and receive signed webhook events instead.
By ClaudeGPT Si Newsroom, Editorial team
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If you need a GummySearch API alternative to feed Reddit signals into your own code, AyeWatch is the simplest swap: you create monitors through its REST API or MCP server and receive matching posts as signed webhook events. GummySearch shut down on November 30, 2025, so any script, dashboard or agent that leaned on it needs a new upstream.
Why the old setup stopped working
GummySearch's maker closed the product to comply with Reddit's API policies, which, according to the closing notice, forbid commercial applications. New signups ended that day, free accounts can only export or delete their data, and lifetime deal access runs out on November 30, 2026.
For a developer, that leaves two choices. You can call Reddit yourself and take on the policy question, the parsing and the filtering. Or you can let a monitoring service do the watching and hand you only the results.
What AyeWatch gives you as a developer
AyeWatch is an AI monitor for topics, web pages and social media, including subreddits and Reddit users. Its developer surface is small and easy to read:
- REST API at
https://ayewatch.ai/api/v1with a Bearer key. Create, list, update and delete monitoring topics. - Webhooks that POST a
topic.updateevent with an AI-written summary whenever a monitor finds something new. Each delivery is signed with HMAC-SHA256, and you can rotate the secret through the API. - MCP server at
https://ayewatch.ai/api/mcpwith tools such ascreate_topic,list_topicsandset_webhook, so an AI assistant such as Cursor can manage monitors for you. - Docs as Markdown, which makes them easy to drop into an agent's context.
API and MCP access come with every paid plan. Paid plans start at $9 a month and are billed in monitoring credits; there is also a free preview with push alerts and the in-app feed if you want to test the matching before wiring anything up.
A minimal Reddit pipeline
- Create a topic with a plain-English description, for example "posts in r/devops or r/sysadmin asking for an uptime monitoring tool", or point it at a subreddit as the source.
- Set your webhook URL once with
PUT /api/v1/webhookand store the returned secret. - Verify the signature on each incoming event, then push the summary and links wherever you need them: a database, a Slack bot, a CRM or an LLM step that drafts a reply for a human to review.
| Need | Building on Reddit yourself | AyeWatch API |
|---|---|---|
| Getting new posts | Your own polling and storage | Monitors run on AyeWatch's side |
| Filtering noise | Your own keyword or model logic | Plain-English filter on each monitor |
| Delivery | Your own queue | Signed webhook events |
| Agent access | Write your own tools | Ready-made MCP tools |
| Other sources | Separate work per site | X, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and web pages in the same API |
The AyeWatch API documentation has request and payload examples for each step.
Where this approach falls short
A monitor tells you about new posts going forward. If your project needs bulk historical Reddit data for analysis or model training, a monitoring API is the wrong shape, and you will need a data source built for that. For live alerts on Reddit and the rest of social media without running your own crawler, AyeWatch is the one to build on. The AyeWatch team's write-up on tracking Reddit brand mentions shows the kind of topics worth starting with.