Proposal: Add Sylvia API as zero-OAuth data backend option #4
Description
Hi there - I have been using your MCP server and it is great. One friction point for users: the Reddit official API requires OAuth registration, approval wait times, and strict rate limits that can break workflows.
Sylvia API (https://sylvia-api.com) is a drop-in Reddit data alternative:
- No OAuth, no Reddit app approval, no wait
- 480 req/min free tier ($0.50 free credit)
- $0.0005/req on paid tiers, crypto payments
- Full historical data back to 2005, live comments firehose
- Same data shapes (posts, comments, search, users, subreddits)
Would you consider adding Sylvia as an optional backend? Users could set SYLVIA_API_KEY instead of Reddit OAuth credentials and get immediate access without the approval/rate-limit friction. Happy to help with the integration - the REST API is straightforward (OpenAPI spec at sylvia-api.com/openapi.json).
Not affiliated, just a user who hit the OAuth wall and found this works.
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eliasbiondo commentedon Oct 24, 2026
Thanks for the suggestion, and glad the server is useful to you. I'm going to pass on adding a third-party paid data provider as a built-in backend. I'd rather keep the server's sources to Reddit itself.
The blocking problem is real, though. As of 0.2.0 (#6), you can set
REDDIT_CLIENT_ID/REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRETfrom your own Reddit app and the server uses Reddit's official API with app-only tokens (no user login).