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Will Reddit Kill RSS Feeds (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by curt@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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I just set up all the subreddits I still want to following in Reeder, an RSS app. I'm able scroll through the posts ad free. It the occurred to me that this is a loss of revenue to Reddit. Could RSS be the new target for onerous fees?

It could be the case that RSS usage is small compared to 3rd party apps like Apollo so not of much concern. It also may be the case that it isn't possible for Reddit to charge for the usage. If they can't charge, they may just disable RSS altogether. I'm only guessing. I'll take off my tinfoil hat now.

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[–] Eggyhead@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How do you add a subreddit as an rss feed?

[–] Marduk@hammerdown.0fucks.nl 12 points 1 year ago

put .rss on the end of the subreddit url and add to a reader. I made a multireddit containing all of my subs, and access it like this (the multireddit has to be marked public: https://www.reddit.com/user/username/m/multiredditname/.rss

[–] Dankenstein@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

https://reddit.0qz.fun/r/news.json

There are a lot of options but this site will turn the JSON into XML for RSS. If you want it in JSON format you can just use Reddit

https://reddit.com/r/news.json

Edit: Reddit also does RSS but it is kinda gross

https://reddit.com/r/news/.rss

[–] l0st_scr1b3@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any links to things you can do with that JSON file? I don't really know Java but it'd be cool to mess around with it in Python some. Searching "reddit python JSON" is obviously not very helpful.

[–] Dankenstein@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh you can just use something like this:

import requests

import json

json_string = requests.get('https://reddit.com/r/news.json')

json_dict = json.loads(json_string)