PSA, you can add subreddits as an RSS to view without supporting Reddit
PSA, you can add subreddits as an RSS to view without supporting Reddit
There's still some subreddits I'd like to view as their communities haven't swapped over yet. Like you guys, I obviously don't want to support Reddit in any way shape or form. Surprisingly, they have not gutted RSS feeds yet. Simply add .rss at the end of the domain. Example
https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA
becomes:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA.rss
Which now works from your RSS reader, sees not ads, and can view without logging in. This also works in nsfw subreddits and apparently now "unverified" subreddits now. Depending on your RSS reader, it should also be able to grab images from posts as well. This bypass seems like an oversight for now, as this doesn't work from the API. Remember: Reddit can still go fuck themselves.
Another small PSA: This works for Lemmy communities as well!
This works for (almost?) any reddit URL:
- Subreddit comments: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/.rss
- Multireddits: https://www.reddit.com/r/Art+IDAP/.rss
- User's posts: https://www.reddit.com/user/maria_zinca/submitted/.rss
- User's comments: https://www.reddit.com/user/Your_Post_As_A_Movie/comments/.rss
- Global searches: https://www.reddit.com/search.rss?q=pixel art
- Subreddit searches: https://www.reddit.com/r/PixelArt/search.rss?q=tree&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance&t=all
- Multireddit searches: https://www.reddit.com/r/Art+IDAP/search.rss?q=watercolor&restrict_sr=on&include_over_18=on&sort=relevance&t=all
Note that in the last 3 URLs, the
.rssis added before the?, in all other cases it's at the end.Good info
Wait, couldn't people have used this to continue developing 3rd party apps?
This only works for reading the content, but you cannot post or comment via RSS.
EDIT: Also, RSS feeds only contain the last N elements, so the apps would need to store all the data from Reddit... which is not practical.
Oh I'm not aware of the comments one! Thank you!
Oh, I also forgot:
- Subreddit comments: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/.rss
Very useful for moderators (of not-very-large subs).
Is there a way to take a url like old.reddit.com/r/sub/comments/abcdef/the_post_title/ and get the post text body and the comments (at lest the first couple of levels) via rss?
This is a great tip! Thanks for posting it.
Sadly, Reddit appears to have pretty much broken RSS feeds. I use NetNewsWire on iPad and Feeder on Android and both of them are hardly ever updating now. Reddit appears to have implemented rate limiting.
https://www.reddit.com/r/bugs/comments/14z44nw/rss_feeds_are_broken_for_most_subreddits/
Yet another reason to tell Reddit to go F itself…
I downloaded an app called Feedly, but it had me log into my reddit account. I just wanna make sure that I'm not giving reddit any traffic. Did I do something wrong?
I just had that similar thing in Feedly so went with an all called free rss reader and it works in there
Is there an Android app that will display both the post and comments in-app? It seems like all the ones I've tried can display the images/posts, but will send you to reddit if you want to read the comments.
Ones I've tried:
- Feeder
- Feedly
- Plenary
- Flym