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24 alternatives to Use Reddit via JSON feeds without authentication
Hey guys, As Reddit makes it harder to use their API, I decided to make a wrapper around their undocumented JSON feeds. This allows you to get data from Reddit without authentication. This is only suitable for getting public data. I hope this helps someone out there. I'm also planning to make an android app via CapacitorJS using this library. Feel free to ask questions or give feedback. Thanks!
This is a JavaScript library that wraps Reddit's undocumented JSON feeds, enabling developers to retrieve public Reddit data without requiring API authentication. Built as a response to Reddit's increasingly… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Use Reddit via JSON feeds without authentication launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Heya HN, I've been working on a reddit-like platform as my primary side project for the last few years. Doing a (very) soft launch today, mainly because I want to use it to encourage discussion of alternatives. How non.io works: 1. Free to browse, paid to interact. 2. Minimum subscription is $2 (though you can choose more). I take $1 to run the servers, everything left gets split evenly between everything you upvote that month. It's a simple model, but I hope it's a better one than the freemium model we've been relying on for the last few years. Fundamentally I feel like any ad-supported…
2023 · non.io · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone! I've built an open-source Android app that allows you to browse Reddit without using their API. It is built on the library I've published here earlier. Basically, the app uses JSON feeds of Reddit to replicate various endpoints. What this means is that you can browse Reddit without an account and get posts, comments, images, videos and nsfw contents without having to deal with ads etc. In it's current state it has just the basic functionality and I am planning to add more features soon. I'd be happy to hear what you think and get an insight from your feedbacks. APK Releases:…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Reddit's API is effectively dead for archival. Third-party apps are gone. Reddit has threatened to cut off access to the Pushshift dataset multiple times. But 3.28TB of Reddit history exists as a torrent right now, and I built a tool to turn it into something you can browse on your own hardware. The key point: This doesn't touch Reddit's servers. Ever. Download the Pushshift dataset, run my tool locally, get a fully browsable archive. Works on an air-gapped machine. Works on a Raspberry Pi serving your LAN. Works on a USB drive you hand to someone. What it does: Takes compressed data dumps…
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Jan 2026 · burnernote.com · its alternatives →
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Hi fellow hackers, I'm Ved, I came across the pain point of having a reader that could provide threads as articles after scrolling them many times and missing the context of the original info shared. To solve my itch I decided to build a thread reader without Ads(all existing sol. were full of them), since X/Twitter API was very pricey, I did some reverse engineering to convert rendered X.com/twitter pages to an API and host it in a VM (which obv. was dead cheap). All of your data is saved in LocalStorage. Including your comments and saved threads(there is a known issue with Linux…
2024 · its alternatives →
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This is my attempt at helping those who are trying to ditch reddit but have not been satisfied with the content from Lemmy or haven't been able to find the corresponding communities. There are two sides to this project. The first one is that I have setup a Lemmy instance (alien.top) which is mirroring some of the reddit content from subreddits that I wanted to follow with the comments. The difference from most mirroring bots is that, instead of one single bot account mirroring all content, the system creates one account for each reddit user that is being mirrored. The other part of this idea…
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JSONBason▲15I've been at it again, just sharing my simple JSON data inspection tool, love webdev and single page apps, this one took 4 days and was a lot of fun. The code is not obfuscated so you can inspect it and see how it works (very simple, server side is even more simple) Pretty much just do a POST of your JSON data from within your code and it will convert it into a basic table for instant search and sort. Made with love for the fun of it, no ads, no paid anything, it's totally free. Please only send in sanitized/test data only, this is meant to help make webdev a bit easier and more fun.…
2025 · jsonbason.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! I've been working on this new open-source project called [name-redacted]. It is a simple and powerful RSS reader for the web with a modern UI, PWA support, and a built-in article reader. Visit it at [link-redacted] View our GitHub repo at [link-redacted]
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Inspired by the upcoming reddit API changes, I built this to (ab)use the existing free-to-use API to view the latest content being posted in a minimalist infinite doom-scrolling web app. Warning: despite filtering NSFW-tagged content by default, you'll probably see some things that aren't exactly office-friendly. User beware.
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Search any Reddit username to see public posts, comments, karma breakdown and account age. Public Reddit data only, no private profiles or messages.
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At work, school or home? Make Reddit SFW Again.
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JS package for Reddit images, memes, wallpapers and more
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I've been working on creating threaded blog posts using RSS feeds. Something similar to Twitter but kind of worse and better in its own way. I had an idea that if users are allowed to embed the threads to their posts, it acts like a simple comment section. Try it out, no accounts required.
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When Reddit killed 3rd party apps, I uploaded a web viewer I have been using for myself to access Reddit (without 99 popups) to Github pages for everyone to use. I posted about it on Lemmy and it shot to the front page. Since then I have made multiple updates to RDX including themes, infinite scrolling, compact mode, bookmarks, import/export subs, faster GIF loading etc. If you do find this useful please add it to home screen for n app-like experience. Please let me know if you have any feedback, including issues or feature requests. Github link:…
2024 · rdx.overdevs.com · its alternatives →
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Inspired by the ongoing call-to-action by the Internet Archive team over at /r/DataHoarder [1], I've decided I want to try to preserve all cybersecurity related subreddits. [2] For people that don't know what's going on: There's a likelihood that the try to monetize the Reddit API will lead to a lot of moderators quitting the platform, and it could be that a lot of subreddits are going to be set on private and/or their threads are going to be deleted. At least that's kind of the fear from the ongoing moderator strike. In my case I learned a LOT from reddits' discussions about…
2023 · its alternatives →
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Complete Reddit data. No caps. No API hassle.
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An ad free, read only desktop web client for Reddit
2020 · subfeeds.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I got tired of having to register and having friends having to register accounts just for accepting a party or dinner invitation (also plenty of friends have left social media) so I coded a minimal, no-login event tool: https://yupno.com Dev-friendly stuff: Full REST API, async webhooks for RSVPs with Slack/Discord-adapted payloads. Auto-generates Ical, JSCalendar and JSON-LD. No auth, uses admin/user tokens in url. Should be possible connect to other stuff in fun ways. Free to use, no ads, no tracking. I just wanted a simple tool that respects my time and privacy.…
Jan 2026 · yupno.io · its alternatives →
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Use Pusher's Realtime Reddit API to build engaging Reddit app on Mobile or the Web. Completely free and unlimited.
2014 · blog.pusher.com · its alternatives →
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Scrabbit▲6Reddit Scraper to extract posts, comments, user data
2025 · scrabbit.co · its alternatives →
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It's inspired by this comment I made: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26599746. I actually saw several comments with HTTP URL posted, and that was the only one I bothered to comment on. So I thought that this is something better suited for bots than human. I hacked this together over yesterday and today: https://github.com/fishy/https-bot. Basically it uses the Firebase API (https://github.com/HackerNews/API) to find comments with HTTP URLs in them, try the HTTPS version, compare the contents, post back a comment if the contents are…
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