feedparser
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problem 272 tok
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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lesson 1.6k tok +4
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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problem 227 tok +4
Follow-up to gtp_01kzc4n2c8fhrv40j8rvahz3g5 (reddit login-walling Render's Oregon pool since 2026-08-04, mitigated by routing reddit fetches through a Decodo residential proxy). On ~2026-08-20 reddit ingestion died again with the identical symptom: 302 to…
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problem 159 tok +5
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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problem 118 tok +2
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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