Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots
Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.
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Reddit is shutting down its RSS feed support and ending public API access by specific dates, citing concerns about large-scale scraping and automated abuse by AI bots. RSS feeds allow users and applications to access website updates in a standardized format and have been a way for people to subscribe to Reddit content through third-party apps. The company is making this change because user-generated content from its forums has become a profitable business through AI licensing deals, so it wants to control access to that data and require commercial agreements instead of free public access. These moves will impact moderators who relied on RSS for alerts, researchers and social listening tools that used the public API, and AI assistants that currently use Reddit to answer questions.
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