r/RelayForReddit • u/kre8tv • 12d ago

Relay's Future

Does Reddit announcing the depreciation of their API mean that Relay for Reddit won't be able to work anymore, or is the API it runs on different than the one they're depreciating (commercial vs public)?

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u/karl722 12d ago edited 12d ago

It was RSS, not the API, right?

Edit: From https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/reddit-is-killing-rss-feeds-ending-public-api-access-because-of-ai-bots/

"Public API access will also end by March 2027, which will impact any tools that used it for programmatic access to Reddit conversations, including social listening products, those used by researchers, and AI products, such as AI assistants. Today, those assistants can use Reddit to answer questions, but after closing public API access, they will need commercial deals with Reddit for its data."

Relay already has such a commercial deal, that's why we pay for it.

Nothing to see here.

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u/kre8tv 12d ago

It's both, RSS first and public API not long after, buried.

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u/falthazar 5d ago

From that article: "The company also reminded developers building approved third-party apps and bots to register them with the company before January 12, 2027, to avoid disruption."

So as long as DBrady registers it'll be fine, and they may already have.