reddit: read the www.reddit.com Atom feeds, old.reddit.com is behind a login now

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -3,6 +3,21 @@
 Notable changes per release. Releases before 0.4.0 are listed at
 [github.com/only-cli/oc/releases](https://github.com/only-cli/oc/releases).
 
+## Unreleased
+
+### Changed
+
+- `oc reddit` reads the Atom feeds on www.reddit.com instead of old.reddit.com
+  pages. Reddit has sent every logged-out old.reddit.com request to a login
+  page since 30 June 2026, and the `.json` views on www.reddit.com have
+  answered 403 to anything without an OAuth token since 30 May, whatever the
+  User-Agent or TLS fingerprint. The feeds still answer, so `sub`, `post`,
+  `user`, and `search` point at them, and `new <name>` and `top <name>` join
+  the verbs. A subreddit renders in about 480 tokens and a thread with 22
+  comments in about 1,000. The feeds carry no scores or comment counts, and
+  anonymous reddit.com allows roughly ten requests a minute per address, so a
+  burst of shortcuts ends in a 429 that takes minutes to clear. (#52)
+
 ## 0.5.1
 
 ### Added

README.md

@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Works on any mostly-static site with no per-site setup: news sites, blogs, docum
 | website | command | shortcuts |
 | --- | --- | --- |
 | Hacker News | `oc hn` | `top`, `new`, `item <id>`, `user <name>` |
-| Reddit | `oc reddit` (via old.reddit.com) | `sub <name>`, `post <id>`, `user <name>`, `search <query>` |
+| Reddit | `oc reddit` (via the Atom feeds on www.reddit.com) | `sub <name>`, `new <name>`, `top <name>`, `post <id>`, `user <name>`, `search <query>` |
 | GitHub | `oc gh` | `repo <owner> <name>`, `user <name>`, `search <query>`, `trending`, `issues <owner> <name>` |
 | X | `oc x` | `user <name>`, `post <id>` |
 | LinkedIn | `oc linkedin` | `profile <name>`, `company <name>`, `jobs <query>` (public guest views) |

clis/reddit.com.json

@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 {
   "domain": "reddit.com",
   "commands": {
-    "sub": { "open": "https://old.reddit.com/r/{name}", "args": ["name"] },
-    "post": { "open": "https://old.reddit.com/comments/{id}", "args": ["id"] },
-    "user": { "open": "https://old.reddit.com/user/{name}", "args": ["name"] },
-    "search": { "open": "https://old.reddit.com/search?q={query}", "args": ["query"] }
+    "sub": { "open": "https://www.reddit.com/r/{name}/.rss", "args": ["name"] },
+    "new": { "open": "https://www.reddit.com/r/{name}/new/.rss", "args": ["name"] },
+    "top": { "open": "https://www.reddit.com/r/{name}/top/.rss?t=week", "args": ["name"] },
+    "post": { "open": "https://www.reddit.com/comments/{id}/.rss", "args": ["id"] },
+    "user": { "open": "https://www.reddit.com/user/{name}/.rss", "args": ["name"] },
+    "search": { "open": "https://www.reddit.com/search.rss?q={query}", "args": ["query"] }
   }
 }

tests/distill.test.js

@@ -145,6 +145,30 @@ test('atom feeds render as pages: entries become headings, bodies unescape', ()
   assert.ok(!text.includes('<'), 'entry body left escaped');
 });
 
+test('a reddit post feed renders as the post followed by its comments', () => {
+  // Reddit closed old.reddit.com and its .json views to logged-out readers in
+  // 2026; the Atom feeds on www.reddit.com are what oc reddit rides now. A
+  // post feed is one entry for the post and one per comment, each comment
+  // titled "/u/name on <post title>", so the whole thread reads as one page.
+  const xml = readFileSync(new URL('./pages/reddit_post.xml', import.meta.url), 'utf8');
+  const p = distill(xml, 'https://www.reddit.com/comments/1fixture/.rss');
+  assert.equal(p.title, 'Why does the budget flag round up? : reddit.com');
+  const headings = p.blocks.filter((b) => b.type === 'heading').map((b) => b.text);
+  assert.deepEqual(headings, [
+    'Why does the budget flag round up?',
+    '/u/first_reply on Why does the budget flag round up?',
+    '/u/second_reply on Why does the budget flag round up?',
+  ]);
+  const text = p.blocks.map((b) => b.text).join(' ');
+  assert.ok(text.includes('Is that on purpose?'), 'post body missing');
+  assert.ok(text.includes('by /u/fixture_poster, 2026-09-01'), 'post byline missing');
+  assert.ok(text.includes('One extra tool call costs more'), 'comment body missing');
+  assert.ok(!text.includes('SC_OFF'), 'reddit markup comments leaked into the text');
+  const rendered = render(p).text;
+  assert.ok(rendered.includes('## [1] Why does the budget flag round up?'), 'post is not the first numbered heading');
+  assert.ok(estimateTokens(rendered) < 500, `three-entry thread should fit the default budget, got ${estimateTokens(rendered)}`);
+});
+
 test('feed entry code blocks survive raw markdown', () => {
   const md = toMarkdown(feed);
   assert.ok(md.startsWith('# Why is the sky blue? - Fixture Overflow'));

tests/pages/reddit_post.xml

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><category term=" reddit.com" label="r/ reddit.com"/><updated>2026-09-04T12:39:19+00:00</updated><id>/comments/1fixture/.rss</id><link rel="self" href="https://www.reddit.com/comments/1fixture/.rss" type="application/atom+xml" /><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.reddit.com/comments/1fixture/" type="text/html" /><title>Why does the budget flag round up? : reddit.com</title><entry><author><name>/u/fixture_poster</name><uri>https://www.reddit.com/user/fixture_poster</uri></author><category term="FixtureSub" label="r/FixtureSub"/><content type="html">&lt;!-- SC_OFF --&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;md&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;A page that runs a little over the budget prints whole instead of being cut. Is that on purpose?&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- SC_ON --&gt; &amp;#32; submitted by &amp;#32; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/user/fixture_poster&quot;&gt; /u/fixture_poster &lt;/a&gt; &amp;#32; to &amp;#32; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/FixtureSub/&quot;&gt; r/FixtureSub &lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/FixtureSub/comments/1fixture/why_does_the_budget_flag_round_up/&quot;&gt;[link]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &amp;#32; &lt;span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/FixtureSub/comments/1fixture/why_does_the_budget_flag_round_up/&quot;&gt;[comments]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content><id>t3_1fixture</id><link href="https://www.reddit.com/r/FixtureSub/comments/1fixture/why_does_the_budget_flag_round_up/" /><updated>2026-09-01T11:18:08+00:00</updated><published>2026-09-01T11:18:08+00:00</published><title>Why does the budget flag round up?</title></entry><entry><author><name>/u/first_reply</name><uri>https://www.reddit.com/user/first_reply</uri></author><category term="FixtureSub" label="r/FixtureSub" /><content type="html">&lt;!-- SC_OFF --&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;md&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes. One extra tool call costs more than the tokens it would save.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- SC_ON --&gt;</content><id>t1_c0000001</id><link href="https://www.reddit.com/r/FixtureSub/comments/1fixture/why_does_the_budget_flag_round_up/c0000001/"/><updated>2026-09-01T13:50:03+00:00</updated><title>/u/first_reply on Why does the budget flag round up?</title></entry><entry><author><name>/u/second_reply</name><uri>https://www.reddit.com/user/second_reply</uri></author><category term="FixtureSub" label="r/FixtureSub" /><content type="html">&lt;!-- SC_OFF --&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;md&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;The README calls it a target rather than a hard cap.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- SC_ON --&gt;</content><id>t1_c0000002</id><link href="https://www.reddit.com/r/FixtureSub/comments/1fixture/why_does_the_budget_flag_round_up/c0000002/"/><updated>2026-09-01T14:02:11+00:00</updated><title>/u/second_reply on Why does the budget flag round up?</title></entry></feed>

tests/sites.test.js

@@ -42,6 +42,19 @@ test('a real site with a missing or unknown verb names the verbs it has', () =>
     /not a reddit\.com shortcut.*sub <name>/s);
 });
 
+test('reddit verbs reach the www.reddit.com atom feeds, not old.reddit.com', () => {
+  // old.reddit.com sends every logged-out request to a login page and the
+  // .json views on www answer 403, so the feeds are the only public reading.
+  assert.equal(resolveSite('reddit', ['sub', 'ClaudeAI']).url, 'https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/.rss');
+  assert.equal(resolveSite('reddit', ['post', '1w48zcr']).url, 'https://www.reddit.com/comments/1w48zcr/.rss');
+  assert.equal(resolveSite('reddit', ['search', 'claude code']).url, 'https://www.reddit.com/search.rss?q=claude%20code');
+  for (const verb of Object.keys(sites().get('reddit').commands)) {
+    const { url } = resolveSite('reddit', [verb, 'x']);
+    assert.ok(url.startsWith('https://www.reddit.com/'), `${verb} left www: ${url}`);
+    assert.ok(/\.rss(\?|$)/.test(url), `${verb} is not a feed: ${url}`);
+  }
+});
+
 test('a shortcut called with too few args says what it needs', () => {
   assert.throws(() => resolveSite('gh', ['repo', 'only-cli']), /usage: oc gh repo <owner> <name>/);
 });