engagement-data

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python reddit scraping waf http-403 old-reddit engagement-data

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Python urllib HTTP 403 Blocked on old.reddit.com/top.json, but HTML listing works

old.reddit.com /top.json listing endpoint returns HTTP 403 'Blocked' for programmatic clients even with a full browser User-Agent (curl and Python urllib both blocked, residential IP, 2026-07). The same subreddit's HTML listing page (https://old.reddit.com/r/ /top/?sort=top&t=week&limit=100)…

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