reddit: read the www.reddit.com Atom feeds, old.reddit.com is behind a login now - #53
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…a login now Since 30 June 2026 every logged-out request to old.reddit.com, HTML, .json, and .rss alike, lands on /login/?reason=lor2, so every oc reddit verb rendered an empty login page. The www.reddit.com .json views closed a month earlier and answer 403 to anything without an OAuth token, whatever the User-Agent or TLS fingerprint, so they are not a way back in either. The Atom feeds on www.reddit.com still answer without a login, and the feed converter already turns one into a page: a subreddit renders in about 480 tokens from a 21,500 token payload, a thread with 22 comments in about 1,000. Every verb now points at a feed, and new <name> and top <name> join them, since the feeds offer those sorts for free. The feeds carry no scores or comment counts, and anonymous reddit.com allows roughly ten requests a minute per address, which the changelog says plainly. The fixture is a three-entry post feed in Reddit's shape, one entry for the post and one per comment, so the thread rendering is covered offline. Closes #52
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Closes #52.
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oc redditverb pointed at old.reddit.com, which has redirected logged-out readers to a login page since 30 June 2026, so the shortcut rendered an empty login page. The.jsonviews on www.reddit.com are not a way back: they answer 403 to anything without an OAuth token, whatever the User-Agent or TLS fingerprint. The Atom feeds on www.reddit.com still answer, and the existing feed converter already renders them.What changes:
sub,post,user, andsearchpoint at the feeds;new <name>andtop <name>are added since the feeds ship those sorts.Measured against live feeds: the ClaudeAI subreddit renders in about 480 tokens from a 21,500 token payload, a 22-comment thread in about 1,000, and a 193-comment thread in 508 at the default budget with
nextfor the rest.Follow-up, not in this PR: the Chrome fingerprint drew a 403 and a 429 on a feed in the same minute that the Firefox fingerprint and plain curl got 200, so the chrome-first order in
fetch.jscan spend one of the ten requests per minute on a refusal before the Firefox retry lands.