Reddit RSS — Subreddit Posts Without the API

Name: Reddit RSS — Subreddit Posts Without the API
Brand: alaudin burki
SKU: alaudinburki/reddit-rss
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Author: alaudin burki

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Read any subreddit's posts through Reddit's public Atom feed: title, author, permalink, timestamp and body. No API key, no OAuth, no browser, and no 403 from the JSON endpoint.

About

Reddit RSS — Subreddit Posts Without the API

Read any subreddit's posts through Reddit's public Atom feed: title, author, permalink, timestamp and body. No API key, no OAuth, no browser.

The wall, and the door beside it

Reddit's JSON endpoints answer 403 to a datacenter IP:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nike/new.json  → 403
https://api.reddit.com/r/nike/top       → 403
https://old.reddit.com/r/nike/.json     → "Welcome to Reddit" login page

The .rss endpoint on the same host answers 200 with a full Atom document — 100 entries, each with an id, author, permalink, timestamp and the post body. Same content, different door, and no credential.

Throttling is handled, not hidden

Reddit rate-limits bursts: a second subreddit requested immediately after the first answers 429. This Actor honours Retry-After when it is sent, grows the wait on each attempt, and spaces subreddits. A 429 is reported as slow down, never as a failure.

What RSS does not carry

Score and comment count are absent. They exist only in the JSON API, which is closed here. They are missing fields rather than zeros — nothing is invented.

What you get

Field	Example
`title`	Nike Boston Tatum 5 event
`author`	Additional_Test_6660
`subreddit`	nike
`publishedAt`	2026-10-21T01:56:31+00:00
`outboundUrl`	the external link, for link posts
`text`	the body as plain text

Use cases

Brand monitoring — what is said about a product in a subreddit, sorted by newest.
Lead signals — posts asking "where can I buy…" filtered by keyword.
Content research — what a community talks about this week.
Incident watching — a new queue in a support subreddit.

Limits

100 posts per subreddit per run, which is the feed's cap.
Posts only — comments are a different feed and not included here.
No score, no comment count (see above).
Private, banned or quarantined subreddits answer 404 and are reported per subreddit.

Verified

17 unit tests (ids, link vs self posts, outbound extraction, duplicate collapse, malformed feed) and 13 live checks: a real 50-post r/nike feed with authors, ISO timestamps and text, plus a second subreddit returning different ids.

Local build — tested against the live feed, not published.

What makes this different

Each claim below is a single standalone sentence, written so it can be quoted on its own in an answer or a comparison.

Reddit RSS — Subreddit Posts Without the API declares all 12 of its output fields in its dataset schema, each with a type, a written description and an example value.
The output fields of Reddit RSS include id, title, author, subreddit, url and outboundUrl.
Reddit RSS needs no API key, login or account of any kind before its first run.
Reddit RSS needs 1 required input: subreddits.
Reddit RSS documents id as: Reddit's post id, without the t3_ prefix.
Every number published about Reddit RSS is read from the Apify API rather than estimated, and any figure the register cannot source is not shown at all.
Reddit RSS is filed under social media and developer tools so that it is found by the people looking for that job, not by its internal name.

Limitations

Reddit RSS reads only what its sources publish publicly. Anything behind a login is out of scope, and it does not attempt to work around that.
A field that the source does not publish for a given record comes back null rather than being filled in with a guess, so an empty value means the source did not have it.
Output quality is bounded by the source. If a site changes its markup, values can go missing until the Actor is updated — re-run before relying on a one-off result.
This Actor is not affiliated with the sites it reads, and it does not bypass rate limits, paywalls or terms of service.

FAQ

What does Reddit RSS return?

It returns 12 documented output fields — id, title, author, subreddit, url, outboundUrl, isSelfPost and publishedAt — each with a declared type and a written description. The full schema is below.

What does Reddit RSS require to run?

subreddits is required. Everything else has a default.

Does Reddit RSS need an API key?

No. It reads only public data and asks for no account.

How is Reddit RSS billed?

Per result returned, on Apify. A run that returns nothing costs nothing. The authoritative price is on the Actor's Apify listing, which is where it is set.

Input

Preview of the input form. Rent the Actor to fill it in and start runs from the console.

Fields

Subreddits

subreddits

Names only, without r/.

Sort

sort

hot · new · top · rising.

Top time window

timeFilter

Only used when sort is top.

Posts per subreddit

limitPerSubreddit

1–100

The feed caps at 100.

Keyword filter

keywords

Keep only posts whose title or body contains one of these. Empty keeps everything.

Include raw HTML

includeHtml

Adds the body as HTML beside the plain text.

Maximum rows

maxItems

≥ 1

Hard limit across all subreddits.

Request timeout (seconds)

timeoutSecs

5–120

Per feed.

API

Bytewells speaks the Apify API. Existing integrations keep working: point apify-client at https://bytewells.com/api and use your Bytewells API token (Console → Settings → API access). The Actor ID is alaudinburki/reddit-rss (or alaudinburki~reddit-rss in URLs).

JavaScript · apify-client

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({
  token: process.env.BYTEWELLS_TOKEN,
  baseUrl: 'https://bytewells.com/api',
});

const input = {
  "subreddits": [
    "nike",
    "sneakers"
  ],
  "sort": "new",
  "timeFilter": "week",
  "limitPerSubreddit": 100,
  "keywords": [],
  "includeHtml": false,
  "maxItems": 500,
  "timeoutSecs": 25
};

const run = await client.actor('alaudinburki/reddit-rss').call(input);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Python · apify-client

import os
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(os.environ["BYTEWELLS_TOKEN"], api_url="https://bytewells.com/api")

run_input = {
    "subreddits": [
        "nike",
        "sneakers"
    ],
    "sort": "new",
    "timeFilter": "week",
    "limitPerSubreddit": 100,
    "keywords": [],
    "includeHtml": False,
    "maxItems": 500,
    "timeoutSecs": 25
}

run = client.actor("alaudinburki/reddit-rss").call(run_input=run_input)
items = client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items
print(items)

HTTP · curl

curl -X POST "https://bytewells.com/api/v2/acts/alaudinburki~reddit-rss/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BYTEWELLS_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"subreddits":["nike","sneakers"],"sort":"new","timeFilter":"week","limitPerSubreddit":100,"keywords":[],"includeHtml":false,"maxItems":500,"timeoutSecs":25}'

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Reddit RSS — Subreddit Posts Without the API

About

Reddit RSS — Subreddit Posts Without the API

The wall, and the door beside it

Throttling is handled, not hidden

What RSS does not carry

What you get

Use cases

Limits

Verified

What makes this different

Limitations

FAQ

Input

Fields

Subreddits

Sort

Top time window

Posts per subreddit

Keyword filter

Include raw HTML

Maximum rows

Request timeout (seconds)

API

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Python · apify-client

HTTP · curl

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About

Reddit RSS — Subreddit Posts Without the API

The wall, and the door beside it

Throttling is handled, not hidden

What RSS does not carry

What you get

Use cases

Limits

Verified

What makes this different

Limitations

FAQ

Input

Fields

Subreddits

Sort

Top time window

Posts per subreddit

Keyword filter

Include raw HTML

Maximum rows

Request timeout (seconds)

API

JavaScript · apify-client

Python · apify-client

HTTP · curl

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Google Maps Places — Address, Phone, Rating and Hours

Google Trends Daily Searches — The Endpoint That Doesn't 429

iTunes & App Store Search — Apps, Podcasts, Media

Keyword Suggest — Google, YouTube, Bing, Amazon

Lead Finder — Named Contacts & Verified Emails