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PSA, you can add subreddits as an RSS to view without supporting Reddit (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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There's still some subreddits I'd like to view as their communities haven't swapped over yet. Like you guys, I obviously don't want to support Reddit in any way shape or form. Surprisingly, they have not gutted RSS feeds yet. Simply add .rss at the end of the domain. Example

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA

becomes:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA.rss

Which now works from your RSS reader, sees not ads, and can view without logging in. This also works in nsfw subreddits and apparently now "unverified" subreddits now. Depending on your RSS reader, it should also be able to grab images from posts as well. This bypass seems like an oversight for now, as this doesn't work from the API. Remember: Reddit can still go fuck themselves.

Another small PSA: This works for Lemmy communities as well!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

This works for (almost?) any reddit URL:

Note that in the last 3 URLs, the .rss is added before the ?, in all other cases it's at the end.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh I'm not aware of the comments one! Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh, I also forgot:

Very useful for moderators (of not-very-large subs).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a way to take a url like old.reddit.com/r/sub/comments/abcdef/the_post_title/ and get the post text body and the comments (at lest the first couple of levels) via rss?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The RSS Feed with the comments of a post is on [POST URL]/comments.rss. Example:

https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/152prch/reddit_app_sucks_so_bad/comments.rss

The first entry is the post with the content and the next ones are the comments (all). Of course there is no nesting structure in the RSS, you need to go to reddit for that.

EDIT: There most probably be a limit in the number of elements of a feed, so if you try that with a post that already has a lot of comments, you will probably see only the last N ones. But if you add the RSS Feed of the comments of new post to your RSS Reader, it will most probably store all the elements over time, so you will have all of them there (and not only the last N ones).... unless the comments are posted too fast and/or the updating frequency of your RSS Reader is too slow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Good info

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, couldn't people have used this to continue developing 3rd party apps?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This only works for reading the content, but you cannot post or comment via RSS.

EDIT: Also, RSS feeds only contain the last N elements, so the apps would need to store all the data from Reddit... which is not practical.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Is there an Android app that will display both the post and comments in-app? It seems like all the ones I've tried can display the images/posts, but will send you to reddit if you want to read the comments.

Ones I've tried:

  • Feeder
  • Feedly
  • Plenary
  • Flym
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is a great tip! Thanks for posting it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I downloaded an app called Feedly, but it had me log into my reddit account. I just wanna make sure that I'm not giving reddit any traffic. Did I do something wrong?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I just had that similar thing in Feedly so went with an all called free rss reader and it works in there