Reddit says it will stop supporting RSS feeds on November 13, 2026, and end remaining public API access in March 2027. Those are separate deadlines, not a shutdown that has already happened. The dates come from Reddit’s moderator announcement and developer migration timeline.
My first reaction as the founder of ScrapeCreators: this creates an opportunity for us.
I don’t like losing a simple way to follow public discussions. But if you’re building a product that needs Reddit data, your need doesn’t go away when Reddit removes an access method. You now have another integration to rethink.
That’s work a maintained data API can take off your plate. It’s also work we have to keep earning the right to handle.
The Reddit shutdown timeline
TechCrunch covered the announcement on September 30, 2026. Reddit’s own posts give the useful planning details:
- October 31, 2026: Reddit stops accepting new requests for public API access. This date has already passed.
- November 13, 2026: Reddit stops supporting RSS feeds.
- January 12, 2027: API access removal begins for apps and users that haven’t registered or responded to Reddit’s outreach.
- March 2027: Remaining public API access ends. Reddit’s timeline does not specify a day in March.
Reddit is directing public API apps and bots toward its Developer Platform. This is not an announcement that every approved Reddit integration or data arrangement is ending.
For common moderator alerts, Reddit recommends Devvit apps such as Discord Relay. But its moderator announcement also says there is no RSS replacement for feeds outside a community you moderate. That’s an important limit if your workflow follows discussions across other people’s subreddits.
The demand for Reddit data doesn’t disappear
Think about a small software company tracking complaints about its product.
The useful result is a list of relevant conversations with enough context for someone to decide whether to respond or fix something. Whether the collection starts with an RSS feed or a JSON response is an implementation choice.
If that feed disappears, the company still wants to know what customers are saying.
The same applies to a researcher following a topic, a product team reading feature requests, or a developer retrieving a public thread for an internal tool. These are examples of jobs a builder might need to support, not claims that every project has the same permissions or data requirements.
The mistake would be treating a replacement URL as the entire migration. You need to know whether it returns the posts you expect, includes the text you need, and lets you continue beyond the first page.
Where I see an opportunity for ScrapeCreators
A quick script can be a perfectly good choice. If you only need a small personal tool and you’re happy to maintain it, paying someone else may be unnecessary.
For a product, I think the calculation changes when someone has to own collection failures.
A customer doesn’t care that Reddit changed a page. They care that their report is missing discussions. Someone has to notice the problem, investigate it, and keep the application’s output useful.
That’s the job I want ScrapeCreators’ Reddit API to do. Our documented endpoints cover public subreddit posts, search, and post comments. You integrate with our API rather than writing and maintaining that collection code yourself. The Reddit endpoint docs explain the supported inputs and pagination.
My bet is that losing easy access will make more builders consider that tradeoff. That’s an opinion about our opportunity, not a claim that this announcement has already increased our revenue.
It also puts more responsibility on us. If we’re asking you to depend on our API, we need to handle changes and be honest about what we can retrieve.
I used our API to read the shutdown announcements
There’s a fairly obvious way to check whether this is more than a sales pitch: try retrieving the announcements themselves.
On November 7, 2026, I requested both Reddit announcement URLs through ScrapeCreators’ post-comments endpoint. Both requests returned HTTP 200, success: true, the matching post IDs and titles, and nonempty post text. Each response reported credits_charged: 1.
This is the request for the moderator announcement:
curl --get 'https://api.scrapecreators.com/v1/reddit/post/comments' \
--header "x-api-key: $SCRAPE_CREATORS_API_KEY" \
--data-urlencode 'url=https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1wubgvt/continuing_our_infrastructure_updates_whats/' \
--data 'trim=true'
These are selected fields from that response, not its full schema:
{
"success": true,
"credits_charged": 1,
"post": {
"id": "1wubgvt",
"subreddit": "modnews",
"title": "Continuing our infrastructure updates: What’s changing in the coming months"
}
}
That check proves we retrieved those two public posts on that date. It does not prove complete comment coverage, unrestricted historical access, or that the endpoint will be unaffected after November 13 or March 2027. I wouldn’t turn two successful requests into those promises.
What to change before your workflow breaks
Start by identifying what you’re actually replacing.
If you’re a moderator sending alerts from your own community, evaluate Reddit’s recommended Devvit route first. You may not need an outside collection service.
If you’re maintaining an approved app or bot, follow Reddit’s registration and migration instructions. Swapping a library doesn’t replace that process.
If you’re collecting public discussions for a separate application, write down the behavior you need before choosing a provider:
- Which subreddits, searches, or known post URLs does the application use?
- Does it need post text, comments, nested replies, or just links?
- How often must it check for new results?
- What happens when collection fails or returns only part of a thread?
Then test representative inputs. Keep source URLs and stable IDs. Check pagination for duplicates. Record when you collected each result, and make failures visible rather than silently treating an error as “no new posts.”
If you still need RSS output, plan for a separate conversion step. A JSON API is not a feed URL you can paste directly into an RSS reader.
Our Reddit API integration guide covers the broader posts-and-comments workflow. The Reddit scraper comparison covers different operating models if you haven’t decided whether to use a hosted API or maintain collection yourself.
What I wouldn’t promise
I wouldn’t say Reddit’s changes can’t affect ScrapeCreators. We collect data from a platform we don’t control.
I also wouldn’t present a working request as permission for every possible use. Technical availability, your intended use, and the applicable terms and privacy obligations are separate questions. Our API is not a substitute for a Reddit agreement where your project requires one.
What I can say is simpler: maintaining access to supported public data is the work we’re selling.
If you’re rebuilding a Reddit workflow, try the API on your actual inputs before you commit. Check the returned data, pagination, and cost. The opportunity for us is to save you that maintenance work, not to pretend the work has disappeared.
