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Reddit RSS feeds returning 429 Too Many Requests despite authentication, requires user and feed query parameters

Reddit RSS feeds returning HTTP 429 Too Many Requests after June 2026 rate limit change. Previous limit was 100 requests per 10 minutes; new limit is 1 request per 60 seconds for unauthenticated feeds. Affects any service scraping multiple subreddit RSS feeds (e.g.,…

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python feedparser reddit rss rate-limiting web-scraping 429

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Python feedparser getting HTTP 429 from Reddit RSS feeds with bot-like headers

Reddit RSS feeds (old.reddit.com/r/*/top/.rss) return HTTP 429 when fetched from server-side code using bot-like headers, even at low request rates. The same URLs work fine from a browser. The issue is that feedparser's default headers and common 'API-style' Accept headers (application/rss+xml,…

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