Social Pulse MCP Server

by dropwatchhq Your server? Claim it

answering

Social Pulse is answering right now. Last checked 5 min ago. It exposes 4 tools.

Real-time Reddit + Hacker News sensing: trending, mention velocity, sentiment, emerging terms.

Uptime history 47 days of history

47 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

74 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Social Pulse every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 5 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add social-pulse --transport http https://social.dropwatchhq.com/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "social-pulse": {
      "url": "https://social.dropwatchhq.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.social-pulse]
url = "https://social.dropwatchhq.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "social-pulse": {
      "url": "https://social.dropwatchhq.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "social-pulse": {
      "url": "https://social.dropwatchhq.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

emerging

emerging_terms

Newly FIRST-APPEARING terms from our rolling novelty ledger (Reddit/HN newest posts + the 24/7 idea_intel loop). Surfaces words/phrases/tickers we just started seeing — early-signal detection for new products, memes, projects, or narratives. Each row carries a first_seen date + sample.

mention

mention_pulse

Mention COUNT + VELOCITY + SENTIMENT for a term, ticker ($AAPL), brand, or product across Reddit + Hacker News over a time window. Returns total mentions, day-by-day buckets, a velocity (rising/falling) signal, lexical sentiment breakdown, and the top posts. Use for brand-watch, ticker-buzz, product-launch tracking, or trend-confirmation. Live data.

trending

trending_topics

What is SURGING on Reddit + Hacker News right now. Returns a ranked list of terms/topics by real-time momentum (recency-weighted engagement across newest posts), scoped to a subreddit or overall. Use to answer 'what's trending on r/<x>' / 'what is the internet talking about today'. Live data from Arctic Shift (Reddit) + HN Algolia — no stale snapshot.

whats

whats_being_said

Top recent posts and the dominant discussion THEMES for a query across Reddit + Hacker News. Use to quickly understand 'what are people saying about X' — the actual posts plus the co-occurring themes/angles. Each post carries score, comments, sentiment and a link. Live data.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://social.dropwatchhq.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	50 ms	5 min ago

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Social Pulse — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Social Pulse do?

It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: emerging_terms, mention_pulse, trending_topics, whats_being_said. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Social Pulse working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 74 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Social Pulse?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Social Pulse need an API key?

No. Social Pulse completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Social Pulse?

It answers our handshake in 74 ms on average, which is faster than 86% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.