Reddit kills RSS feeds and public API access, citing AI bots
speckx · hn · 2026-10-01
Per TechCrunch, Reddit is shutting down RSS feeds and ending public API access, blaming abuse by AI crawlers. Third-party tools, researchers, and everyday users lose a legitimate way to access public Reddit data as the platform locks data down further.
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