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Reddit custom RSS feeds & Google Reader (self.help)

submitted ago by xandar to help

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Ok, so I'm not positive that this is a Reddit problem as opposed to a Google Reader problem, but I'm hoping someone might have some advice.

I go to preference/rss feeds and copy the link then add it in Reader. With the RSS link I get "Oops... an error occured" and "The feed being requested cannot be found." With the JSON link it doesnt even seem to see a feed there and just offers to monitor the site for updates (which it doesnt find).

Anyone else get this combination to work? An help? Thanks.

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[–]violentacrez 2 points3 points ago

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I have never been able to get reddit RSS feeds to work reliably, particularly in Google Reader.

[–]xandar[S] 1 point2 points ago

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Thanks. The default reddit RSS always worked fine for me. I'm only running into problems now that I'm trying to use the one based off my customized frontpage.

Found a quick workaround though. I made a yahoo pipe that took the feed in and the just spit it back out. Somehow Google Reader found that to be more acceptable.

[–]erich666 2 points3 points ago

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This is great, thanks for the fix. To newbies (like me): make a Yahoo pipe consisting of a "fetch feed". Copy the RSS reddit button's info into this fetch feed's URL (right click on RSS and "copy link address"). Route the "fetch feed" output to the top of "Pipe Output". Name your pipe and save. Run the pipe. You'll see your inbox (or whatever). Copy the contents of the RSS feed button on this page, paste into Google Reader. Lovely!

[–]nelsonblaha 0 points1 point ago

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hey, thanks! That did it for me.

[–]Gojita 0 points1 point ago

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http://www.reddit.com/prefs/feeds then try copying the RSS one instead of the JSON

[–]xandar[S] 1 point2 points ago

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Mhm, that's where I was going. It actually started working better yesterday.... seemingly on its own. Unfortunately the feed only updates like very 3 hours, that's a Google Reader issue, not a reddit one.

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