Reddit RSS feeds recent rate limiting and solution
Key takeaways
- Reddit seems to have severly [sic] rate limited their RSS feeds
- It looks like only the first request in each batch works, then the others fail.
- x-ratelimit-used: 1 x-ratelimit-remaining: 0.0 x-ratelimit-reset: 58 I've never looked at this before so I might be misinterpreting, but it seems like it's saying you get one request every 60 seconds?
For years, I’ve followed Reddit via RSS. I mentioned Reddit RSS feeds in a 2022 blog post. Among the various ways my customers can contact me, there’s a subreddit for my products. I follow a number of Apple-related subreddits such as r/apple, which is helpful to me in unearthing information relevant to my business and helpful to redditors, whose technical questions I sometimes answer. I also follow a few local, Wisconsin-area subreddits. Overall, I subscribe to around 25 Reddit RSS feeds. This worked fairly well until yesterday afternoon. Suddenly, all of my Reddit RSS feeds started returning HTTP 429 Too Many Requests. The issue continued into this morning, and I found confirmation in a couple of Reddit posts:
Reddit seems to have severly [sic] rate limited their RSS feeds
It looks like only the first request in each batch works, then the others fail. In the headers, I see: