Why reliable Reddit access is hard for Hermes automation
A Windows setup with 8 GB RAM and a Ryzen 5500U needs to fetch specific Reddit posts and full comment threads automatically. The goal is to let scripts, cron jobs, and agents gather useful knowledge from public communities such as r/hermesagent, r/localllm, and r/ollama for daily digests, agent research, and a . The easy routes are mostly blocked or unreliable.
Reddit .json links return 403 errors, www.reddit.com RSS hits 429 , old.reddit.com RSS works only sometimes and can be blocked by IP, and public Redlib, RSSHub, and Teddit servers are often dead or too slow. Pushshift is no longer available, and PRAW does not solve the need for public subreddit access without . The current workaround tries old.reddit first, then six Redlib instances, three RSSHub instances, and three Teddit instances, but it only works from the current IP and fails from cron or other IPs.
The needed method must be free, run on low memory, return posts and comments as JSON or clean Markdown, avoid for public subreddits, and be reliable without depending heavily on IP. Possible paths include self-hosted Redlib/RSSHub/Teddit, Playwright or undetected-chromedriver , free-tier APIs such as Firecrawl, Jina.ai, or ScrapingBee, and other lightweight bridges or scrapers.
Key points
- is being used on a low-spec 8 GB Windows machine to automate Reddit post and comment collection.
- Reddit .json, RSS, old.reddit RSS, public Redlib/RSSHub/Teddit instances, Pushshift, and PRAW all have practical limits here.
- A fallback chain works from one IP but fails from cron jobs or other IPs.
- The desired output is post and comment data as JSON or clean Markdown without .
- and are possible, but memory use and reliability are the main concerns.