GummySearch API alternative: Reddit alerts via the AyeWatch API and MCP

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/v1 with a Bearer key. Create, list, update and delete monitoring topics.
• Webhooks that POST a topic.update event 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/mcp with tools such as create_topic, list_topics and set_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

1. 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.
2. Set your webhook URL once with PUT /api/v1/webhook and store the returned secret.
3. 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.

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.