--- title: Reddit to end RSS feeds on 13 November and public API... description: Reddit will end RSS feed support on 13 November and shut down public API access entirely by March 2027, citing large-scale scraping and AI bot abuse. New API... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/reddit-to-end-rss-feeds-on-13-november-and-public-api-access-by-march-2027-citing-ai-scraping-sbjadmbca twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Reddit to end RSS feeds on 13 November and public API access by March 2027, citing AI scraping | daily.dev og:description: Reddit will end RSS feed support on 13 November and shut down public API access entirely by March 2027, citing large-scale scraping and AI bot abuse. New API... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/reddit-to-end-rss-feeds-on-13-november-and-public-api-access-by-march-2027-citing-ai-scraping-sbjadmbca og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/SBJADmbCA.png og:image:alt: Reddit to end RSS feeds on 13 November and public API access by March 2027, citing AI scraping og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Reddit to end RSS feeds on 13 November and public API access by March 2027, citing AI scraping **[Collections](https://daily.dev/sources/collections)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Reddit will end RSS feed support on 13 November and shut down public API access entirely by March 2027, citing large-scale scraping and AI bot abuse. New API access requests stop 31 October, unregistered third-party apps are cut off 12 January 2027, and Old Reddit is being restricted to moderators and recently active logged-in users. Moderators relying on RSS alerts are pointed to a Discord Relay app, while everyone else has no replacement. Registered apps can claim $1,000 each from a $1m migration fund toward Reddit's Developer Platform. New communities also lose Automod's default enforcement powers. The piece notes Reddit's non-advertising revenue, including AI data licensing, grew 24% year-over-year to $43 million, suggesting the shutdown also serves Reddit's paid data licensing business. ## Content Reddit is shutting down RSS feeds on November 13 and ending public API access entirely by March 2027. The company says the cause is large-scale scraping and automated abuse, including by AI bots. ## What changes and when - **RSS feeds:** gone on November 13. - **Public API:** new access requests stop October 31. Unregistered apps are cut off starting January 12, and the API closes completely in March 2027. - **Old Reddit:** access is restricted to moderators and recently active users. The cutoff is described as logins within the last 90 days, or roughly six months in some accounts of the plan, so check your own status if you rely on it. - **Automod:** new communities no longer get its enforcement powers by default. ## Moderators get a workaround, everyone else doesn't Moderators who used RSS for alerts are being pointed to a Discord Relay app. Reddit admits there is no replacement for feeds used outside moderator communities. If you read subreddits through a feed reader, that option is simply going away. Third-party app developers have to register by January 12, 2027. Reddit is paying registered apps $1,000 each, from a $1 million fund, to move to its Developer Platform. ## The AI licensing problem The timing is hard to ignore. Reddit's "other revenue" line, which includes AI licensing, grew 24% year over year to $43 million. The company also has data deals with Google and OpenAI. So Reddit is closing public access, citing AI scrapers, while selling the same content to AI companies on its own terms. Moderators are understandably annoyed. Many of them volunteer their time to build the content being licensed, and now they're losing tools they used to do it. Reddit's reasoning about abuse may well be real. But it's also a convenient way to move everyone toward paid or approved channels, and I doubt that's an accident. ## Questions this post answers ### When is Reddit shutting down RSS feeds and the public API? Reddit RSS feeds stop working on 13 November, and new API access requests stop 31 October. Unregistered third-party apps get cut off 12 January 2027, and public API access ends completely by March 2027. Registered developers can get $1,000 each from a $1m fund to migrate to Reddit's Developer Platform. _Developers relying on Reddit's API or RSS feeds can track this kind of deprecation timeline on daily.dev._ ### Why is Reddit ending RSS feeds and API access? Reddit cites large-scale scraping and automated abuse, including by AI bots, as the reason for shutting down RSS and the public API. Its other revenue, which includes AI data licensing, grew 24% year-over-year to $43 million, raising the possibility that closing free access also protects paid data-licensing deals with AI companies. _daily.dev helps developers weigh the real motives behind platform API shutdowns like this one._ ### What happens to Reddit moderators who use RSS for alerts after the shutdown? Moderators who relied on RSS for subreddit alerts are being pointed to a Discord Relay app as a workaround. There is no stated replacement for RSS users outside moderator communities, so people who followed subreddits via RSS readers lose that option entirely once feeds go dark on 13 November. _daily.dev keeps developers informed on platform changes affecting moderation tooling and workflows._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Reddit looks to AI search as its next big opportunity](https://daily.dev/posts/reddit-looks-to-ai-search-as-its-next-big-opportunity-8bobbzks7) · TechCrunch · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Reddit Q1 revenue jumps 69% to $663m, and shares rally 9%](https://daily.dev/posts/reddit-q1-revenue-jumps-69-to-663m-and-shares-rally-9--qqv04jyxm) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [The Death of Social Media is the Renaissance of RSS – Smartlab](https://daily.dev/posts/the-death-of-social-media-is-the-renaissance-of-rss-smartlab-dekbnoags) · Hacker News · 1 upvotes · 1 comments - [Why Public APIs Are Shuttering in the Age of AI](https://daily.dev/posts/why-public-apis-are-shuttering-in-the-age-of-ai-fwe6hwqaa) · Nordic APIs · 2 upvotes · 1 comments --- [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/reddit-to-end-rss-feeds-on-13-november-and-public-api-access-by-march-2027-citing-ai-scraping-sbjadmbca) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Reddit to end RSS feeds on 13 November and public API access by March 2027, citing AI scraping","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/reddit-to-end-rss-feeds-on-13-november-and-public-api-access-by-march-2027-citing-ai-scraping-sbjadmbca","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/reddit-to-end-rss-feeds-on-13-november-and-public-api-access-by-march-2027-citing-ai-scraping-sbjadmbca"},"datePublished":"2026-09-30T18:48:12.310Z","dateModified":"2026-10-03T00:53:26.418Z","description":"Reddit will end RSS feed support on 13 November and shut down public API access entirely by March 2027, citing large-scale scraping and AI bot abuse. 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