Reddit RSS Feeds End November 13, 2026: What Breaks and What Replaces Them

Reddit stops supporting RSS feeds on November 13, 2026. Every Reddit .rss URL a feed reader, an automation recipe, a terminal client or an AI pipeline polls is on that clock. Moderators get Devvit apps such as Discord Relay as a replacement. Everyone else gets Reddit's own answer: there is no replacement.

TL;DR: Reddit's 30 September 2026 r/modnews post ends RSS support on 13 November 2026, points mods to Discord Relay, and says non-mod feeds get no replacement. Register apps before 12 January 2027; public API access closes in March 2027. Rebuild a feed as an API call or a webhook monitor.

This is an independent explainer from redditapis.com, a third-party API that is not affiliated with Reddit, Inc. The mechanics of the RSS path, its 25-item ceiling and its field gaps are already in our Reddit RSS feed vs API comparison, and the August plan is in the Developer Platform migration guide. This post covers the deadline: what stops, what Reddit offers, and how to keep a feed alive after 13 November.

When do Reddit RSS feeds stop working?

Reddit RSS feeds stop on November 13, 2026. Reddit announced the date in an admin post on r/modnews on 30 September 2026, six weeks ahead, and gave no grace period or list of surviving feed types. Any workflow that polls a Reddit .rss URL should be moved before that date.

The sentence that matters, from the r/modnews announcement:

Because RSS is now a common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse, we'll stop supporting RSS feeds on November 13, 2026 while preserving moderation workflows that depend on it through supported alternatives.

Three details in that line are worth reading carefully:

• "Stop supporting" is the verb. Reddit does not promise a hard cutoff at midnight, but it also does not promise that anything keeps working after the date.
• No feed type is excluded. Subreddit, user, search, comment and multireddit feeds all share the same .rss path, and none is carved out.
• Moderation workflows are the only ones Reddit commits to preserving, and only through "supported alternatives", not through RSS itself.

The post was not received warmly. When we read the announcement through our API on 14 October 2026, Reddit reported 797 comments on it and an upvote ratio of 0.27, so roughly three in four votes on it were downvotes.

Why is Reddit ending RSS support?

Reddit's stated reason is abuse: RSS has become a common surface for large-scale scraping and automated traffic, and it is unauthenticated, so Reddit cannot tell a hobbyist's feed reader from a crawler. Ending RSS closes one of the last anonymous read paths after Reddit required logins for Old Reddit earlier in 2026.

The RSS change is one step in a sequence Reddit laid out across 2026:

• Old Reddit login. Earlier in 2026 Reddit required people to log in to use Old Reddit, which the r/modnews post calls "its largest source of abusive scraping and automated traffic: unauthenticated access."
• The August plan. On 5 August 2026 Reddit said third-party Data API apps would move to the Developer Platform. Our migration guide covers that post.
• The September dates. On 30 September 2026 Reddit published the RSS date, the Old Reddit six-month rule and the API timeline together.

TechCrunch covered the change on 30 September 2026, the day of the announcement, framing it around AI bots. Reddit's own wording is narrower: scraping and automated abuse.

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@TechCrunch

Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content. https://t.co/OKLDEwwWpH

Which Reddit RSS feeds stop on November 13?

All of them, as far as the notice says. Reddit draws no line between subreddit feeds, user feeds, search feeds, comment feeds or the private feeds tied to your account, so a workflow built on any Reddit .rss URL should be treated as ending on 13 November 2026.

What that covers in practice:

• Feed readers. Any Reddit subscription in a desktop, web or mobile reader. A post on the Inoreader community subreddit asked what the change means for that reader on 1 October 2026.
• Automation recipes. IFTTT, Zapier, n8n and similar flows that start from a Reddit feed. An r/redditdev thread on 1 October 2026 asked exactly this about IFTTT.
• Terminal and editor clients. Emacs packages and other text clients that read Reddit through its feeds.
• Mod alert pipelines. Modqueue and new-post alerts piped into Discord, Slack or email through a feed.
• AI and RAG pipelines. Agents and ingestion jobs that poll a subreddit's .rss feed because it needed no key.
• Private feeds. The token-signed feeds listed in account Preferences, which a thread in the RSS community subreddit on 3 October 2026 flagged as going too.

The Emacs community put it most bluntly. The top post in the Emacs subreddit on 8 October 2026, titled "Accessing Reddit from Emacs will be impossible after November 13th", argued RSS was "the last hatch through which we could access Reddit from Emacs."

Reddit's own timeline post on r/redditdev is the one to bookmark for the API side:

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r/redditdev·u/boat-botany

Moving Data API Apps to the Developer Platform: migration dates and next steps

TL;DR: In[ our last update](https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/1vgbm9c/our_plans_for_the_future_of_reddits_public_data/), we said we’d come back with migration dates and next steps. We know migrating takes time…

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What does Reddit offer instead of RSS?

For moderators, Devvit apps. Reddit recommends Discord Relay for common mod alerts and links a help center guide for migrating RSS-based workflows. For anyone else, Reddit's answer is direct: "If you use RSS for feeds outside of a community you moderate, there is no replacement."

That split decides your options:

• You moderate the community. Install Discord Relay or another Devvit app, map the alerts your RSS pipeline produced, and remove the feed before 13 November. Reddit's Discord Relay setup guide covers the steps.
• You built an app or bot. Register it at the app registration page and follow the Data API/PRAW to Devvit migration guide.
• You just read feeds. Reddit offers nothing. Your choices are a third-party data API, a Devvit app you build and install yourself where allowed, or reading Reddit in the browser.

For a mod team, the Discord Relay migration is short:

Three ways off RSS

What each Reddit RSS replacement covers, on the questions that decide it

	Data API call	Discord Relay	Devvit app
Works outside your own community	Yes, any public subreddit	No, mod teams only	Installed per community
Output	JSON over HTTP	Discord messages	Runs inside Reddit
Search and keywords	Yes	Event types only	What you build
Feeds a script or AI pipeline	Directly	Only through Discord	Through your own code
Approval needed	An API key	Mod install	Developer Platform rules

What are the other Reddit deadlines around the RSS shutdown?

Two other changes ship around the same date. App and bot owners must register on the Developer Platform before 12 January 2027, and remaining public API access closes in March 2027. Old Reddit will be limited to logged-in users who used it in the last six months, with logged-in moderators exempt.

Be precise about the API part, because it is widely misreported. Reddit is not switching its API off in November. Per the r/redditdev timeline of 30 September 2026, it is moving public Data API apps to the Developer Platform in phases:

Every Reddit date around the RSS shutdown, from Reddit's own posts

Date	What happens	Who it hits	Source
31 Oct 2026	New requests for public API access no longer accepted	Developers without access	published
10 Nov 2026	Migration progress update and deadline reminder	Registered apps	published
13 Nov 2026	Reddit stops supporting RSS feeds	Every RSS reader and recipe	published
30 Nov 2026	Registration closes for the migration bounty program	App owners seeking funding	published
12 Jan 2027	API access starts to close for unregistered apps	Apps and bots not registered	published
23 Feb 2027	Another migration progress update	Registered apps	published
Mar 2027	Public access closes for all remaining apps and users	Every remaining Data API client	published

as of 2026-10-14

The supporting numbers from the same two posts:

• 14,000+ apps and bots had registered by 30 September 2026, per both admin posts.
• 100+ submissions had come in through the form for community tools with no known maintainer.
• $1M is the size of the App Migration Program, which pays $1,000 to eligible apps that complete a migration, with registration for the bounty closing on 30 November 2026.
• Six months is the Old Reddit usage window. Logged-in mods keep access with no usage requirement.

The Old Reddit rule matters for anyone who switched from RSS to reading old.reddit.com pages. That path now needs a logged-in account with recent Old Reddit use, so it is not a durable replacement for a feed.

How did developers and readers react to the RSS shutdown?

Loudly, and mostly with one question: what do I use now. In the two weeks after the notice, Reddit posts with both RSS and Reddit in the title appeared across dozens of communities, from feed reader forums to national subreddits, and the biggest threads drew hundreds of comments each.

We measured it through our own API:

Between 30 September and 14 October 2026, 54 Reddit posts carried both RSS and Reddit in the title.

Our data · Dataset: reddit-rss-notice-reaction · Source: public Reddit posts, pulled through our API · Query: reddit_search {"limit": 100, "q": "title:rss reddit", "sort": "new", "t": "month"} · Pulled: 2026-10-14 · n = 54 · Method: count of items; filtered to title matching /(?i)reddit/i, created matching /^2026-(09-30|10-)/i; frame: 81 unique items from 1 page(s), deduplicated by id

Of those 54 posts, 20% were phrased as a question.

Our data · Dataset: reddit-rss-notice-reaction · Source: public Reddit posts, pulled through our API · Query: reddit_search {"limit": 100, "q": "title:rss reddit", "sort": "new", "t": "month"} · Pulled: 2026-10-14 · n = 54 · Method: share of items whose title matches /?/i; filtered to title matching /(?i)reddit/i, created matching /^2026-(09-30|10-)/i; frame: 81 unique items from 1 page(s), deduplicated by id

The largest threads, read on 14 October 2026:

The biggest reaction threads in the first two weeks, as read on 14 October 2026

Community	Posted	Upvotes	Comments	Source
r/anime_titties	3 Oct 2026	2,257	209	measured
r/selfhosted	1 Oct 2026	955	343	measured
r/Archiveteam	2 Oct 2026	199	17	measured
r/Suomi	1 Oct 2026	176	42	measured
r/italy	2 Oct 2026	142	89	measured
r/emacs	8 Oct 2026	98	51	measured

as of 2026-10-14

The r/selfhosted thread is where self-hosters compared notes on what to run instead:

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Reddit will also shut down the RSS feed on November 13th. Can we please leave this shithole?

Api first and now also rss. It’s only getting worse. Reddit recommends “Discord Relay”. Maybe we can use it to at least mirror the posts away from reddit?

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And the reaction outside Reddit ran along the same lines, with Old Reddit folded in:

AlternativeTo

@AlternativeTo

Reddit is killing RSS feeds on November 13 and locking down Old Reddit access to only active and longtime users, a move critics say prioritizes AI data licensing deals over longtime user preferences and the open web. https://t.co/P5rd1qwcj8 https://t.co/iOBNOTZUxo

How do you replace a Reddit RSS feed with an API call?

Map each feed URL to the API listing that returns the same posts, then poll it and remember the last post id you saw. A subreddit's new feed becomes a newest-first posts listing, a search feed becomes a search call, and a user feed becomes that user's submitted posts. You get JSON with more fields than RSS carried.

The direct mapping on redditapis.com:

RSS feed you used	API call that replaces it	What you gain
/r/SUB/new/.rss	GET /api/reddit/posts?subreddit=SUB&sort=new	Score, comment count, up to 100 per call
/r/SUB/top/.rss?t=week	GET /api/reddit/posts?subreddit=SUB&sort=top&t=week	Same window, JSON
/search.rss?q=TERM	GET /api/reddit/search?q=TERM&sort=new	Sort, time window, subreddit scope
/user/NAME/submitted/.rss	User submitted posts listing	Pagination past 25 items
/r/SUB/comments/.rss	Subreddit new-comment stream	Comment bodies and authors

A subreddit's new feed, rebuilt as one call:

curl -sS "https://api.redditapis.com/api/reddit/posts?subreddit=selfhosted&sort=new&limit=25" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $REDDITAPIS_KEY"

The same feed, as an API call

What replaces r/selfhosted/new/.rss after 13 November

Sample

endpoint

GET /api/reddit/posts

sort

new

per call

$0.002

Title, author, score, comment count and permalink per post

Up to 100 posts per call, with an after cursor

An XML feed your reader can subscribe toYou get JSON; a reader needs a small bridge

Sample request shape. Field list from the endpoint's documented response; price from the redditapis.com pricing page, read 14 October 2026.

To keep the feed behaviour (new items only, nothing twice), wrap the call in a small loop:

1. Call the newest-first listing for the subreddit or search.
2. Drop every post id you have already seen. Store ids, not timestamps.
3. Hand the new posts on to your reader bridge, Slack message or ingestion job.
4. Save the newest id as the high-water mark.
5. Wait your interval and repeat.

Pick the interval from how busy the subreddit is. A listing reaches back only so far, about 1,000 items in our listing cap measurement, so a very busy subreddit polled hourly can drop posts out of the window between calls. The pagination guide covers the cursor.

What does replacing a Reddit RSS feed cost?

A polled feed costs one read per poll. At the published $0.002 per read, read on 14 October 2026, one subreddit polled every 15 minutes is 2,880 reads in a 30-day month, about $5.76. Hourly is $1.44 a month. Every minute is $86.40, well past the point where a flat-priced push monitor costs less.

The arithmetic for one feed over a 30-day month:

• Every 60 minutes: 720 reads, $1.44.
• Every 15 minutes: 2,880 reads, $5.76.
• Every 5 minutes: 8,640 reads, $17.28.
• Every minute: 43,200 reads, $86.40.

Every new account starts with $0.50 in free credits and no card, which is 250 reads, enough to test a feed for a few days at a 15-minute interval. Credits do not expire. The pricing breakdown has the other tiers.

Should you poll or use a webhook monitor?

Poll when you want a cheap, simple replacement for a reader feed and can tolerate your own interval. Use a monitor when you want alerts the way mod teams used RSS: a match is pushed to a webhook, Slack or Discord without a polling loop, at a flat monthly price with no per-match charge.

What the live pricing page listed on 14 October 2026:

• Free, no card: 1 keyword watched across all of Reddit, new posts, about every 60 seconds, delivered to a webhook, Slack or Discord, up to 10,000 alerts a day.
• Starter, $19 a month: 15 keyword monitors across up to 10 named subreddits, at about 60-second checks.
• Growth, $49 a month: 50 monitors, about 30-second checks, and comment monitoring.

Polling or push

Rebuilding a Reddit RSS feed as a poll against a hosted monitor

	Hosted monitor	Polling a listing
Who runs the loop	The service	Your cron job
Billing	Flat plan, free tier for 1 keyword	$0.002 per read
Delivery	Webhook, Slack or Discord	Wherever your script writes
Freshness	About 60s free, 30s on Growth	Your poll interval
Backfill	Forward only from creation	Up to the listing window

Monitors are forward looking: they start from the moment you create them and do not backfill, so use a search call for anything older. The monitoring webhook guide walks through the four calls, signature checks and retries, and the monitoring API page has the overview.

What should AI agents and RAG pipelines use instead of Reddit RSS?

A keyed data API. RSS was popular with agents because it needed no credentials, but it returned at most 25 items, no scores and no comment trees. Replace the feed with a listing or search call that returns structured JSON, and keep the license question in view.

The swap for an ingestion job:

• Replace the .rss URL with a newest-first listing or a scoped search.
• Store post ids so the job stays idempotent across runs.
• Fetch comment trees only for posts that pass your filter, because they cost one read each.
• Record what you cannot see, such as a truncated listing, so the agent says "partial" instead of "all".
• Check the terms for your use. Commercial use and AI training sit under separate rules covered in our RAG data source guide.

For agent tooling specifically, the Reddit API for AI agents guide covers tool design, and redditapis.com ships an MCP server that exposes the same listings as tools.

Reddit RSS vs Discord Relay vs a data API

They solve different jobs. RSS was a universal, keyless read path. Discord Relay is a moderator alert tool for communities you run. A data API is a keyed read path that works on any public subreddit and feeds code, not a reader. Pick by who you are and where the output has to land.

• RSS (until 13 November): any public feed, no key, 25 items, XML for readers.
• Discord Relay: mod teams only, community events into a Discord channel.
• A Devvit app: runs inside Reddit, installed per community, under Developer Platform rules.
• A data API: any public subreddit, JSON, search and comments, a key and a per-call price.

The capability detail, field by field, is in our RSS versus API comparison.

Who is hit hardest by the Reddit RSS shutdown?

People who read Reddit through tools Reddit did not build and who do not moderate anything. Mod teams get Discord Relay, registered apps get a migration path into 2027, but a reader with forty subreddit feeds in a feed reader has nothing from Reddit after 13 November.

Group by group, per Reddit's 30 September 2026 posts:

• Moderators: Discord Relay and other Devvit apps for the communities they run.
• App and bot owners: a registration and migration path, with access closing from 12 January 2027.
• Feed reader users: no replacement from Reddit.
• Automation users: no replacement; recipes that start from a feed must be rebuilt on an API.
• AI and RAG pipelines: no replacement; a keyed data API is the route left.

This Privacy Guides episode of 3 October 2026 covers the Old Reddit login, the RSS end and the API close together, from a reader's point of view:

What to do before November 13, 2026

Inventory every Reddit feed you depend on this week, then move each one to the replacement that fits it. Moderators install Discord Relay, app owners register before 12 January 2027, and everyone else rebuilds feeds as API calls or monitors and runs both side by side before the date.

The checklist:

• List every Reddit .rss URL in your readers, recipes, scripts and agents.
• Sort them into mod alerts, app or bot traffic, and plain reading.
• Mod alerts: set up Discord Relay and compare a week of output against the feed.
• Apps and bots: register before 12 January 2027, and before 30 November 2026 if you want the migration bounty.
• Reading and automation: rebuild each feed as a listing, search or monitor, and test it against the live feed while both still work.
• Remove the RSS dependency before 13 November so nothing fails silently.

When you are ready to test a replacement feed, the quickstart gets the first call running, signup issues a key with $0.50 in free credits, and the API documentation lists every endpoint.