Reddit 因 AI 机器人关闭 RSS，并将终止公共 API 访问

在周三公布的一系列面向版主和开发者的更新中，也传来了令开放网络支持者失望的消息：Reddit 将停止支持 RSS feed。

Reddit 表示，RSS 如今已成为“大规模抓取和自动化滥用的常见入口”，因此决定逐步停止平台上的 RSS feed。

“我们知道，RSS 长期以来一直是开放网络备受喜爱的一部分，我们感谢每一位通过它与 Reddit 保持连接的用户，”该公司在公告中表示；同时，公告还公布了其公共 API 将于 2027 年 3 月关闭的日期。

Reddit 表示，RSS 支持将于 11 月 13 日终止。

RSS，即 Really Simple Syndication/Rich Site Summary（真正简易聚合／丰富站点摘要），是一种网络订阅格式，让用户和应用程序能够以标准化格式获取网站更新。该格式在博客时代尤为流行，因为用户可以在新闻阅读应用中订阅网站的新文章。Google 曾运营其中最受欢迎的一项服务，但在2013 年将其关闭，将市场让给了 Feedly 等公司及其他独立应用。

Reddit 决定关闭 RSS feed，正值其论坛中的海量用户生成内容通过 AI 授权交易成为公司一项利润丰厚的副业之际。

在其第二季度财报中，Reddit 表示，除广告以外的“其他收入”同比增长 24%，达到 4300 万美元。Reddit 显然不希望再免费提供这些数据。

对于依赖 RSS 频道接收自身提醒的版主，Reddit 目前建议改用 Discord Relay Devvit 应用。公司建议版主及其团队检查现有配置，并在 11 月 13 日关闭日期前迁移工作流，以确保不会中断。不过，Reddit 表示，对于原本用于版主社区外部 feed 的 RSS 用途，目前没有替代方案。

版主已经表达了对这一转变将如何影响其工作流的担忧。此前 Reddit 曾暗示正准备在站内终止 RSS，许多人随即回应，抱怨这将使 Reddit 对他们而言变得难以管理。与此同时，许多用户强调，RSS 正是他们喜欢访问 Reddit 内容的方式。

RSS 调整只是该公司周三发布的多项更新之一。另一项重大改变将是终止其公共 API。

公共 API 访问也将于 2027 年 3 月前结束，这将影响所有依靠它以编程方式访问 Reddit 对话的工具，包括社交聆听产品、研究人员使用的工具，以及 AI 产品，例如 AI 助手。目前，这些助手可以利用 Reddit 回答问题；但在公共 API 访问关闭后，它们将需要与 Reddit 达成商业协议，才能获得其数据。

此外，Reddit 更新了其 Rules Hub 的进展和自动版主工具的调整，并表示正在为其经典、以文本为主的网站版本 Old Reddit“增加防护措施”。后者将包括限制登录版主和近期用户的访问——Reddit 同样表示，这些变化是因“滥用性抓取和自动化流量”而必须采取的措施。

Reddit 表示，未来几个月将把 Old Reddit 的登录用户访问资格限制为过去 6 个月内使用过 Old Reddit 的用户。（就在消息发布之际，该公司已将这一期限从 90 天改为 6 个月。）

该公司还提醒，构建获批第三方应用和机器人的开发者需要在2027 年 1 月 12 日前向公司完成注册，以避免服务中断。在该日期之后，Reddit 将移除所有未完成注册开发者的 API 访问权限。

发布后，我们更新说明：Reddit 将 Old Reddit 的“近期访问”期限从 3 个月延长至 6 个月。Reddit 此前与 TechCrunch 分享的材料称，该期限原为 90 天。

Amid a number of updates for moderators and developers announced Wednesday, comes bad news for supporters of a more open web: Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds.

Reddit says RSS has now become a “common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse,” which is why it’s made the decision to wind down RSS feeds on its platform.

“We know RSS has been a beloved part of the open web for a long time, and we’re grateful to everyone who used it to stay connected to Reddit,” the company noted in its announcement, where it also shared a March 2027 shutdown date for its public API.

Reddit said RSS support will cease on November 13.

RSS, or Really Simple Syndication/Rich Site Summary, is a web feed that lets users and applications access updates to a website in a standardized format. The format became particularly popular in the blogging era, as it offered a way to subscribe to a site’s new posts in a news-reading app. Google once operated the most popular of these, but shut it down in 2013, ceding the market to companies like Feedly and other indie applications.

The decision to kill Reddit’s RSS feeds comes at a time when the site’s treasure trove of user-generated content in its forums has become a profitable side business for the company in the form of AI licensing deals.

During its second quarter, Reddit said its “other revenue” beyond advertising had grown 24% year-over-year to $43 million. It’s no wonder that Reddit doesn’t want to give any of that data away for free.

For moderators who have relied on RSS channels for their own alerts, Reddit is now recommending a shift to the Discord Relay Devvit app. The company suggested that moderators and their teams review their setups and migrate their workflows before the shutdown date of November 13 to ensure there’s no disruption. However, Reddit said that there’s no replacement for the use of RSS feeds that were being used for feeds outside of the moderators’ community.

Moderators have already expressed worry about how this shift would impact their workflow. When Reddit hinted earlier that it was preparing for the end of RSS on its site, many responded by complaining that Reddit would become unmanageable for them. Meanwhile, many users stressed that RSS was how they enjoyed accessing Reddit’s content.

The RSS change was one of several updates issued on Wednesday by the company. Another big change will be the end of its public API.

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.

In addition, Reddit provided an update on its Rules Hub progress and auto-mod changes, and said it was “adding safeguards” to its classic, text-heavy version of its site known as Old Reddit. The latter will include limiting access to logged-in moderators and recent users — changes Reddit also said were required because of “abusive scraping and automated traffic.”

Reddit said in the next few months it will limit access for logged-in users to those who have used Old Reddit in the last 6 months. (The company changed this from 90 days to 6 months, just as their news went out.)

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. After that date, Reddit will remove API access for any developer that hasn’t registered.

After publication, we updated to note that Reddit extended the Old Reddit “recent access” period from 3 to 6 months. The earlier materials Reddit shared with TechCrunch said the time frame would be 90 days.