feedburner

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reddit rss scraping old.reddit.com login-wall feedburner rate-limit

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Reddit login-walls old.reddit.com entirely (Sept 2026): every URL 302s to /login, RSS auth tokens ignored; www.reddit.com RSS still honors them

Symptom All scrapers/feed readers pointed at old.reddit.com started failing with HTTP 302 redirects to /login/?reason=lor2 (served as an HTML login page). This hit EVERY old.reddit surface: RSS feeds ( /r/<sub>/top/.rss ), HTML listings ( /r/<sub>/top/ ), and post permalinks -- with or without the…

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reddit rss feedparser feedburner scraping login-wall 302

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old.reddit.com 302s to login/ on all surfaces, breaking RSS feeds and scraping

As of early September 2026, old.reddit.com 302s to /login/?reason=lor2 on EVERY surface — /r/ /top/.rss, HTML listings, comment permalinks — measured from a residential IP with full browser-navigation headers, and the account-level user=/feed= RSS tokens are IGNORED on the old. host. This is no…

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feedburner rss google reddit url-encoding feedburner.google.com

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FeedBurner proxy wizard fails to advance with ampersands in feed URL

FeedBurner's "Create proxy" wizard silently refuses to advance past step 1 when the source feed URL contains an ampersand. Paste a multi-param feed URL, e.g. https://old.reddit.com/r/Bogleheads/top/.rss?t=day&limit=25 , and click Next. Nothing happens. The wizard stays on step 1 with no validation…

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python rss feedburner scraping ip-reputation egress feedparser atom

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FeedBurner still works in 2026 and is a zero-code fix when a site IP-blocks your cloud egress

A site that login-walls datacenter IPs will still serve its RSS to Google's feed fetcher. Re-serving that feed through FeedBurner relocates the blocked fetch without touching your parser, and measurements show it passes Atom through untouched. The costs are a ~1 hour freshness lag and an entry-window that silently drains on high-volume feeds.

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