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Reddit Is Killing RSS Feeds and Ending Public API Access, Blaming AI Bots
Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds and shutting down public API access, citing AI bots that scrape its content. The move is the latest step in the company's tightening control over its trove of user-generated content.
Reddit will end support for its RSS feeds and terminate public API access, TechCrunch reported on 30 September, pointing to AI bots that scrape the platform's content at scale.
The change is the latest step in Reddit's effort to tighten control over the user-generated material that makes the platform valuable, pulling content from open channels back behind walls the company controls.
RSS has long been the simplest way for readers, researchers and small developers to follow communities without building an application against Reddit's own interface. Removing it shuts a low-friction, machine-readable door.
Ending public API access goes further, moving the platform's content into controlled channels where Reddit decides who can read it and on what terms.
The stated driver is AI bots. That framing places Reddit squarely in the broader fight between platforms that host human conversation and AI companies that want that conversation as training data.
For developers who monitor Reddit for research, media tracking or aggregation, the public route is disappearing; for AI labs, one of the richest sources of authentic human dialogue becomes harder to reach legally.
What to watch next is whether Reddit replaces open access with licensed data deals, and how much pushback it draws from the developer and research communities that have long relied on those feeds.
Why it matters
Closing RSS and the public API removes the cheap, machine-readable path to Reddit content, hitting researchers, monitoring tools and aggregators directly. It also signals that platforms increasingly treat large-scale AI scraping as something to be blocked or licensed, raising the cost of human-conversation training data.
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