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Crul, in PSA, you can add subreddits as an RSS to view without supporting Reddit

This works for (almost?) any reddit URL:

Note that in the last 3 URLs, the .rss is added before the ?, in all other cases it’s at the end.

C4RP3_N0CT3M,

Good info

ContentConsumer9999,

Wait, couldn't people have used this to continue developing 3rd party apps?

Crul,

This only works for reading the content, but you cannot post or comment via RSS.

EDIT: Also, RSS feeds only contain the last N elements, so the apps would need to store all the data from Reddit… which is not practical.

coldv,

Oh I’m not aware of the comments one! Thank you!

Crul,

Oh, I also forgot:

Very useful for moderators (of not-very-large subs).

abff08f4813c,

Is there a way to take a url like old.reddit.com/r/sub/comments/abcdef/the_post_title/ and get the post text body and the comments (at lest the first couple of levels) via rss?

Crul,

The RSS Feed with the comments of a post is on [POST URL]/comments.rss. Example:

www.reddit.com/r/…/comments.rss

The first entry is the post with the content and the next ones are the comments (all). Of course there is no nesting structure in the RSS, you need to go to reddit for that.

EDIT: There most probably be a limit in the number of elements of a feed, so if you try that with a post that already has a lot of comments, you will probably see only the last N ones. But if you add the RSS Feed of the comments of new post to your RSS Reader, it will most probably store all the elements over time, so you will have all of them there (and not only the last N ones)… unless the comments are posted too fast and/or the updating frequency of your RSS Reader is too slow.

theghostie, in PSA, you can add subreddits as an RSS to view without supporting Reddit
@theghostie@kbin.social avatar

Is there an Android app that will display both the post and comments in-app? It seems like all the ones I've tried can display the images/posts, but will send you to reddit if you want to read the comments.

Ones I've tried:

  • Feeder
  • Feedly
  • Plenary
  • Flym
aloeha, in PSA, you can add subreddits as an RSS to view without supporting Reddit

I downloaded an app called Feedly, but it had me log into my reddit account. I just wanna make sure that I’m not giving reddit any traffic. Did I do something wrong?

density, in Reddit Copy Project?
@density@kbin.social avatar

Archive team has been downloading it so itll be available

https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/193362

SamXavia,
@SamXavia@lemmy.world avatar

Thanks.

abff08f4813c, in finding deleted info from Reddit.

Which browsers have you tested this with? Interested to see which browsers do not support the above trick.

If you happen to be using one of those btw, you can still do this, just go to duckduckgo and put in the !cache followed by the url and duckduckgo will take you there.

Also, if archive.is doesn't have a saved copy of a page, it includes a link to google's cache.

RedstoneValley, in finding deleted info from Reddit.

Bing still has a cache button

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