What a cleared path means
discatch reaches sources through providers or official APIs underneath. A cleared path means a data source whose terms permit serving Reddit results at a cost that supports a free tier. Reddit has no free public search API; its official API starts at a price floor that rules out a free tier. Until a path is cleared, Reddit is not a source you can name directly in a search or catch.
What arrives through the web index today
When you search with the web source, indexed Reddit posts that match your query arrive as web results. The result carries a reddit.com domain field so you can filter on it. This is partial coverage: not every post is indexed, and new posts take time to appear. But it means Reddit mentions reach you today, without a cleared path, as long as you search across the web source.
Search for Reddit mentions through the web source
curl -X POST https://api.discatch.com/v1/search \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $DISCATCH_KEY" \
-d '{ "query": "\"your product\"", "sources": ["web"], "since": "7d" }'What the free tier will look like
- Keyword alerts on Reddit at one hour or slower, the same shape as the free Hacker News alerts.
- Delivery by email, webhook, Claude Code, Codex, or Doozy todo.
- A prescore on every result.
- The same JSON result shape as every other discatch call.
- No card, no email to start.
What happened to GummySearch
GummySearch shut down in late 2025. Access to existing data ends 2026-11-30 and data is deleted 2026-12-01. The site still draws 171,500 visits a quarter (Similarweb, 2026-09-10). People who used GummySearch through scripts and agents need a replacement with an API. discatch is that replacement for monitoring; the Reddit-as-a-source part waits on the cleared path.