Reddit Is Killing RSS Feeds and Public API Access to Fight AI Scrapers

In brief

• Reddit will stop supporting RSS feeds on November 13, 2026, and says there is no replacement for anyone using them outside communities they moderate.
• New public API requests stop October 31, 2026, and all remaining public access closes in March 2027, with apps pushed to Reddit's Developer Platform and a $1 million migration fund.
• Reddit cites scraping and automated abuse, and has struck AI data deals with Google and OpenAI while suing Anthropic and Perplexity.

Reddit is shutting two of the main ways outsiders pull data from the site. The company said in an announcement yesterday that RSS feeds will stop working on November 13, and public access to its API closes in March 2027.

“In August, we shared plans to modernize Reddit’s infrastructure, build better mod tools, and make it harder for bad actors to scrape Reddit and abuse communities. Today, we have specifics on what’s changing, when, and how to plan ahead,” Reddit said.

RSS is a simple feed that lets an app check a page for new posts automatically. An API, short for application programming interface, is a front door that lets software request data straight from a service. Both are how a lot of third-party tools, bots, and alerts have worked for years.