Reddit RSS Feeds Shut Down on 13 November over AI Scraping
The company said RSS has become a target for large-scale scraping and automated abuse as it limits access to Reddit data.
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Reddit RSS feeds shut down on 13 November over AI scraping
Reddit will stop supporting RSS feeds on 13 November, blaming AI scraping. RSS is now widely used for large-scale scraping and automated abuse, the company said in a post to moderators on Wednesday. RSS lets people follow a site’s new posts in a feed reader. Moderators who use it for alerts can move to a […] This story continues at The Next Web
Reddit will close its RSS feeds on November 13 and withdraw public access to its API in March 2027. The company links the measures to scraping and automated abuse, while moderators and users express concern about the impact on their tools and open access to conversations.
Reddit says it is ending support for RSS feeds on November 13 because the feeds are a target for abuse by AI bots and is ending its public API access in March (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Reddit says it is ending support for RSS feeds on November 13 because the feeds are a target for abuse by AI bots and is ending its public API access in March — Amid a number of updates for moderators and developers announced Wednesday comes bad news for supporters of a more open web: Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds.
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