How Reddit's feeds worked
For most of Reddit's history, nearly every page had a feed. Append .rss to a subreddit URL and you got that community's posts in Atom format. The same trick worked for a user page, a search results page, a comments page for one thread, the front page, and a multireddit. Sorting carried through: /r/{sub}/new.rss for newest, /top.rss for top. It was a thin door into Reddit that needed no account, no key and no library, which is why so many readers, bots and mod tools used it.
Readers used them to follow a handful of communities without the site's ranking. Discord and Slack servers used them to echo new threads into a channel. Moderators used the comments and search feeds as a review queue. A good many scripts used them because a feed URL is simpler than an OAuth client, which is also why those scripts are now looking for a new source.
Through 2026 those feeds have been less reliable, with rate limiting and user agent blocks hitting hosted readers and bots. Reddit has now announced that all feeds stop on 13 Nov 2026, and that there is no replacement.
The forms that worked
reddit.com/r/{sub}.rssand/r/{sub}/new.rss: a community's posts.reddit.com/r/{a}+{b}.rss: several communities in one feed.reddit.com/r/{sub}/comments.rss: new comments in a community.reddit.com/r/{sub}/comments/{id}/.rss: one thread's comments.reddit.com/user/{name}.rss: a user's posts and comments.reddit.com/search.rss?q=and/r/{sub}/search.rss?q=: search results.reddit.com/.rss: the front page. With a login cookie, your home feed.reddit.com/user/{name}/m/{multi}.rss: a multireddit.
After 13 Nov 2026
Redlisten serves the same feed paths in the same Atom layout at api.redlisten.com. The hostname changes and a key is added to the URL, because readers cannot send headers. Everything a reader relied on, the entry id, title, author, link, timestamp and content, is in the same place.
# Reddit's feed URL forms (until 13 Nov 2026)
https://www.reddit.com/r/python/new.rss
https://www.reddit.com/r/python+learnpython/new.rss
https://www.reddit.com/user/example_user.rss
https://www.reddit.com/search.rss?q=road+closed
# The same feeds on Redlisten
https://api.redlisten.com/r/python/new.rss?key=rl_live_YOUR_KEY
https://api.redlisten.com/r/python+learnpython/new.rss?key=rl_live_YOUR_KEY
https://api.redlisten.com/user/example_user.rss?key=rl_live_YOUR_KEY
https://api.redlisten.com/search.rss?q=road+closed&key=rl_live_YOUR_KEYSubreddit, combined subreddit, comments, user and search feeds all map one to one. The community comments feed is more complete than Reddit's: it carries every public comment in the community, and /r/all/comments.rss carries every public comment on the site. Two forms are not served: multireddit feeds, which a + list replaces, and the logged in home feed, since there is no logged in view. A single thread's comments are available through the /comments/{id} path as JSON rather than as a feed.
Setting it up
Sign up and copy the key from the dashboard. For each Reddit feed in your reader, edit the URL: swap the hostname and append ?key= and the key. A reader that cannot edit a feed URL needs the old feed removed and the new one added. Discord RSS bots and the Slack RSS app take the new URL through their edit or subscribe commands. A free key has 250 requests a month and each fetch is one request, so a few feeds polled every few hours fit for free; more feeds or a faster schedule fit a Pro key at $29 a month with 50,000 requests, as listed on 6 Nov 2026.
Keep the URL private, since the key is in it. If it leaks, revoke the key in the dashboard and re-add the feed with the new one.
When a feed is the wrong tool
Many people used a search feed as an alert. A keyword stream does that job directly: it matches every public post and comment against your words and posts each match to Slack or Discord, fires a webhook, or sends a daily email digest. Streams are on paid plans, with email digests on Free. The keyword alerts page walks through it, the RSS switch page covers readers and bots in more detail, and the RSS replacement page has the full mapping table.