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Private front-end for Reddit

27 mentions on Hacker News by 24 people: 3 stories, 24 comments · first 2024-01-28 · latest 2026-11-02

Mentions per year 27 mentions · busiest year 2026 (16)
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    Redlib discussion: Reddit has decided to force everyone to log in
    story by probably_wrong · 2026-11-02 · 0 comments
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    Tell HN: Reddit JSON endpoints might have been turned off
    story by nunez · 2026-10-20 · 5 comments
  3. Something like https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib ?
  4. Redlib works. Either self host or use a public instance: https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib#instances
  5. …their server IP and by not posting any personal details online. For Reddit you can use Redlib ( https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib ), I host an instance at https://redlib.miningtcup.me/ and people also like https://safereddit.com/ .
  6. …... instances. [1] https://github.com/searxng/searxng [2] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious [3] https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
  7. Use Redlib [1] or one of the other alternative Reddit frontends. [1] https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
  8. Redlib exists - https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib It has a few public instances - https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib-instances/blob/main/ins... Seems to work decently well, I've seen it being linked to on HN.
  9. I use redlib https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib and librediret instead.
  10. …^https://(www\.)?reddit.com|https://safereddit.com EDIT: See here for a list of instances: https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib#instances
  11. run a redlib instance, bots hit these hard: https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
  12. redlib is a thing and has been around for a while. https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib-instances/blob/main/ins...
    comment by nticompass · 2026-08-11 · in They Killed Old Reddit
  13. …to your Redlib instance of choice (it also does the same for other platforms, configurable). [0] https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib [1] https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib-instances/blob/main/ins... [2] https://libredirect.manerakai.com/
    comment by netniuq · 2026-07-27 · in VLC for Unity now supported on Linux
  14. There are solutions to this, like libreddit/redlib. https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
  15. …going to make the xcancel version for old reddit? edit: https://safereddit.com/ is an instance of https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
    comment by jubilanti · 2026-07-20 · in Tell HN: Old Reddit Now Requires Login
  16. …or one of their public instances)[0]. It has the same "sort" that's used on the desktop site. [0] https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
  17. ▲ 1
    Redlib: Private front-end for Reddit based on Libreddit
    story by LorenDB · 2025-09-19 · 0 comments
  18. Unfortunately, i.reddit.com is no longer available :( Fortunately, Redlib exists: https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
  19. Is the reddit equivalent of xcancel/nitter (i.e., redlib https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib ) also blocked? Presumably if the instance is hosted outside the UK it would work since I think it effectively proxies your requests.
  20. …building it all in Rust, though :) If you're interested in anything here, email in profile. [0]: https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
    comment by sodality2 · 2025-06-29 · in Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
  21. …been building tooling to allow academic researchers to access data at a large scale at no cost :) https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
  22. Safereddit looks like a website that implemented a private front end called redlib: https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib Agree that we don’t need to add a layer of obfuscation but this seems to be a way to reduce telemetry captured by…
    comment by pixelatedindex · 2024-10-07 · in Nintendo isn't just attacking emulators [video]
  23. https://reddit.garudalinux.org/r/BuyBorrowDieExplained/comme... or host a private instance. https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
    comment by doublerabbit · 2024-08-31 · in Buy, Borrow, Die – Explained
  24. …to be logged in, redlib (previously libreddit) works well. Similar to what nitter was to twitter. https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib?tab=readme-ov-file#inst...
  25. There's a fork of LibReddit called RedLib which should work better: https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib?tab=readme-ov-file#libr...
  26. …API? Correct. Also, I forked it with some OAuth spoofing and have been maintaining it there: https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
  27. It's been forked by a maintainer as redlib: https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib