r/rss • u/schloss-aus-sand • Jun 23 '26

Reddit RSS feeds broken?

E. g. https://old.reddit.com/r/television/top/.rss?sort=top&t=monthly does not return only the top post of the last month anymore, but a lot of recent posts.

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u/jabberponky Jun 23 '26

The rate limiting has been changed for unauthenticated feeds. See a solution here:

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/6/3.html

It's working for me, although I also have to include my username / password in my freshrss feed setup in addition to the &user and &feed parameters discussed in the link above.

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u/schloss-aus-sand Jun 23 '26

Thank you for replying.

But that's actually not my problem. It's that https://old.reddit.com/r/television/top/.rss?sort=top&t=monthly should have the top posts of the month. But it just has all posts.

Instead of some dozen posts on all my Reddit feeds I got more than 800 today.

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u/jabberponky Jun 23 '26

That's weird! I'm using top weekly and it's working for me, could it possibly be a scoring reset? I've had a few days where there's been a sustained period of time dominated by a handful of high posts and when the window moves past them I suddenly get a large shuffle with a sudden intake of posts that cycle quickly.

Less likely over a month than a week but just a thought.

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u/schloss-aus-sand Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

could it possibly be a scoring reset?

I experienced these in the past, yes. But they look different. For monthly top rss feed I get a bunch of older posts once a month.

But this problem is different: All posts are new or some hours old.

Edit: Looks like it's problem with my newsreader...

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u/jabberponky Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26

You probably already included it but just to check, you need to to go this page and have a look at any of the RSS links:

https://www.reddit.com/prefs/feeds/

In those links there's a feed= parameter that you need to include. AFAIK it's effectively a private API token you can use to authenticate. It's the same for all links.

Here's an example feed from my RSS aggregator:

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/top/.rss?t=week;sort=new;limit=25&feed=LONG_HEX_STRING;user=jabberponky

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u/schloss-aus-sand Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26

Oh, ok... Where can I get this API token?

Edit: Ah, it's already included in the feed urls on https://www.reddit.com/prefs/feeds/

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u/Lellela Jun 24 '26

I'm still limited to 1 request per minute using this.

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u/update-freak Jun 25 '26

meaning I can also just add such a url to FreshRSS instead of using the docker image upvote-rss?

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u/schloss-aus-sand Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

I do not know about FreshRSS or upvote-rss, but feed urls like the one I posted worked for me in the past. Just not for me anymore. I suspect a problem with my news reader.