Reddit RSS feeds recent rate limiting and solution
Reddit has implemented stricter rate limiting on its RSS feeds, causing many users to receive 429 errors. A workaround involving specific URL parameters has been identified to maintain access.
Why it matters
This change impacts power users and developers who rely on RSS for content aggregation and monitoring.
For years, I’ve followed Reddit via RSS. I mentioned Reddit RSS feeds in a 2022 blog post . Among the various ways my customers can contact me, there’s a subreddit for my products . I follow a number of Apple-related subreddits such as r/apple , which is helpful to me in unearthing information relevant to my business and helpful to redditors, whose technical questions I sometimes answer. I also follow a few local, Wisconsin-area subreddits. Overall, I subscribe to around 25 Reddit RSS feeds. This worked fairly well until yesterday afternoon. Suddenly, all of my Reddit RSS feeds started returning HTTP 429 Too Many Requests. The issue continued into this morning, and I found confirmation in a couple of Reddit posts:
The article is a technical guide focused on troubleshooting a platform change.
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