The three dates
| Date | What stops | Who it hits |
|---|---|---|
| 13 Nov 2026 | All RSS and Atom feeds on reddit.com. No replacement. | Feed readers, Discord and Slack RSS bots, mod alert tools, scripts that preferred RSS to OAuth. |
| 12 Jan 2027 | Data API access for apps not registered with Reddit. | Scripts and bots using .json URLs or an unregistered client id, which is a large share of PRAW scripts. |
| March 2027 | Public Data API access. | Every remaining third party app that reads Reddit through the API, registered or not. |
All three come from Reddit's announcements in 2026. After March 2027, reading Reddit by API means a commercial agreement with Reddit, which is quote based and aimed at large companies, or building on Devvit.
What Devvit covers
Devvit is Reddit's developer platform. Apps are written in TypeScript, run inside Reddit's own infrastructure, and are installed into communities by moderators after a review. It is a good fit for apps that live on Reddit: moderation helpers, community games, custom post types. It is not a fit for anything that needs Reddit's content outside Reddit: a feed reader, a monitoring tool, a research pipeline, a Slack alert, a RAG retriever or a Python bot that reads Reddit and acts elsewhere. Those are the use cases the shutdown leaves without a path, and they are most of the apps that exist.
Who should do what
If you read Reddit through RSS, you have until 13 Nov 2026. Point the reader, bot or alert at the same path on Redlisten with your key in the URL. The RSS switch page covers each case.
If you run a PRAW or snoowrap bot that reads, you have until 12 Jan 2027 if the app is unregistered and until March 2027 if it is registered. Set the base URL to Redlisten and the bot keeps running in its own language. The PRAW page has the two settings and a full sample.
If your bot also writes, posting, replying, voting or moderating, that half stays on Reddit through a registered app for as long as Reddit allows, or moves to Devvit. The reading half, which makes most of the requests, moves to Redlisten.
If you call .json URLs directly, change the hostname and add a bearer header. The paths and the Listing JSON are the same. The .json page lists every supported path.
If you build a product on Reddit data, a monitoring tool, a listening dashboard, a lead finder, the question is which source survives March 2027. Redlisten is a separate service with its own terms, and Reddit's dates do not apply to it. Plans run from a free key to Business at $299 a month, listed on 6 Nov 2026, with Enterprise above that.
What Redlisten is and is not
It is the read side of Reddit's API: the same listing, thread, user, lookup, search and about paths with the same JSON and rate limit headers, plus RSS feeds, PRAW support through two settings, and native endpoints Reddit never had, which are sitewide feeds of every post and comment, full text search over the last 30 days including comments, keyword streams with webhook, Slack, Discord and email delivery, and mention counts over time.
It is not a way to post, vote, message or moderate, and it has no logged in view, so private communities are not served. Paid plans search the last 30 days. Redlisten is not affiliated with Reddit, Inc. The API replacement page maps every endpoint, and the alternative page compares the options.
A sensible timeline
Before 13 Nov 2026: move every feed. Before 12 Jan 2027: move every unregistered script and bot, which is most of them, and test against a quiet community with a free key. Before March 2027: move the rest, and decide what to do with any writing your app does. Doing the moves early means the old source is still there to compare against, which is the easiest way to confirm the new one matches.