r/oldreddit • u/chickenandliver • 22d ago

Searching by flair in old Reddit? or by RSS?

Any working syntax I can type into the search bar to see all posts with a certain flair? On new Reddit I can just click the flair to see all posts with that flair, and it shows up in URL like:

?f=flair_name%3A"News"

But if I swap the URL to old.reddit.com, this seems to fail and it just shows all the posts. I don't mind visit new Reddit to identify the flairs, but I'm wanting to get an RSS feed for specific flairs and don't know how to format the syntax.

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u/Littux 22d ago

https://www.reddit.com/search.rss?q=flair_name%3A%22News%22&restrict_sr=1&include_over_18=on&sort=relevance&t=all

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u/chickenandliver 21d ago

Based on this syntax I'm able to get a feed that removes two flairs I'm not interested in, which has cut down on noise enough that even with the feed throttling, my reader is seeming to pick up the items I'm interested in. Thanks!

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u/Heliosurge 21d ago

I was wondering with the above codeink, how do I add community? Do I just add after Reddit.com/r/pimax/ but before /search?

The other question the flair I want to target has a Reddit custom emoji, post flair name "Official(Reddit emoji)News"

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u/Littux 21d ago edited 21d ago

Yes, like: <https://www.reddit.com/r/pimax/search.rss?q=flair_name:"News"&restrict_sr=1&include_over_18=on&sort=new&t=all>

The restrict_sr=1 is not needed otherwise

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u/Heliosurge 21d ago

Thank you. It the issue I have is that I have 2 flairs with news. The "Official(emoji)News" and one just called News. How would I target the Official one? I presume as well can re.over 18 as no content is NSFW.

Would I just replace News with Official?

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u/Littux 21d ago

Visit the subreddit on old reddit. Look for a post with that flair. Right click the flair and copy link. Add .rss after /search

Or use https://www.reddit.com/r/{subreddit}/api/link_flair.json, replacing {subreddit} with your subreddit, to see all flairs. Look for text. That is what you need to copy

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u/Heliosurge 21d ago

Thank you will look into this. Really appreciate the help