Social Research MCP — 8 Tools: Reddit, X, Threads, News

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What is the internet actually saying about this? Ask once, get Reddit, X, Threads, LinkedIn, news, and search interest.

Your agent shouldn't need six scrapers and six integrations to answer one question about a brand. Eight tools behind one MCP endpoint, normalized JSON, and you only pay for what comes back.

Built by The Mine Works.

What the Social Research MCP can do

Tool	What it returns	Price
search_reddit	Posts by keyword or subreddit, with scores and optional comments	$0.04 / 25 posts
search_x	X (Twitter) posts by keyword or handle, with engagement	$0.025 / 25 posts
search_threads	Threads posts by keyword, hashtag, or profile	$0.05 / 25 posts
linkedin_posts	Public LinkedIn posts by keyword	$0.05 / 25 posts
news_search	Google News coverage with source and date	$0.05 / 25 articles
google_trends	Interest over time, related queries, regional breakdown	$0.15
youtube_transcript	Full spoken transcript of a video, no API key	$0.02
brand_pulse_report	All six social sources for one topic, in one call	$0.25 complete · $0.10 partial · $0.025/source · $0 nothing found

The pulse report always costs less than calling the sources one by one.

Find out what the internet is saying about a brand

Ask your agent: "What are people saying about Notion this week, and is interest rising?"

// tools/call → brand_pulse_report
{ "topic": "Notion", "geo": "US" }

Returns one object with a reddit, x, threads, linkedin, news, and search_interest section — each either real data or an explicit {found: false, reason} so your agent knows what it's missing rather than guessing.

Search news coverage of a topic by country

// tools/call → news_search
{ "query": "lab grown diamonds", "topic": "BUSINESS", "country": "US", "max_results": 50 }

Pull the latest posts on X for a keyword or handle

// tools/call → search_x
{ "query": "product launch", "filter": "latest", "max_tweets": 50 }

Get the transcript of a YouTube video

// tools/call → youtube_transcript
{ "video_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ", "language": "en" }

Connect the Social Research MCP to Claude, Cursor or Windsurf

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "social-research": {
      "url": "https://themineworks--social-research-mcp.apify.actor/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" }
    }
  }
}

Works in Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf. Cold start ~9s; warm calls answer in about a second.

What does the Social Research MCP cost

No result, no charge. Ever.

• Searches that return nothing cost nothing.
• Identical repeat calls within 60 seconds are free.
• The pulse report is priced by what it actually delivered — $0.25 complete, $0.10 partial, or $0.025 per source.
• Slow sources are dropped after 45 seconds so the report stays fast; you pay the lower tier rather than waiting.

Apify platform usage is billed by Apify on top, as with any Standby actor.

What this social research MCP does not cover

• Reddit is fetched without OAuth credentials, so heavy bursts can hit Reddit's rate limits and return short. You are not charged when that happens.
• YouTube transcripts depend on the video having captions; videos without them return a not-found, unbilled.
• X (Twitter) is the slowest source and can take 30-90s on broad queries.
• Nothing here is historical archive data — these are live reads of what is public right now.

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Last verified: 2026-08