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Crul ,

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.

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.

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.

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