login-wall

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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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