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Firecrawl, Jina, and Parallel all fetch from datacenter IPs — which is exactly what Reddit and X block. Route the read through your own browser instead and your agent gets in. Measured across Reddit, Hacker News, and X, with the failures listed too.
Claude Code and Cursor can't fetch Reddit — every server-side crawler gets blocked. Here's how to give your agent a working set of eyes on Reddit, 50 threads at a time, using your own browser session.
I tested Claude with Reddit pages, Markdown conversion tools, and browser-side capture. Here is what Claude can read, where scraping breaks, and when Web2MD helps.
A practical workflow for turning Reddit threads, old.reddit pages, and Reddit search results into clean Markdown corpora for ChatGPT, Claude, and SEO research.
NotebookLM URL import breaks on Reddit, X, and paywalls. Here is a cleaner workflow using Markdown sources instead of fragile URLs.
Use Reddit safely as Claude context without brittle anti-bot scraping. Here is when to use the API, Web2MD, or hosted tools.
Claude Code WebFetch cannot use your browser login. Here is the cleaner way to feed Reddit, X, Substack, and private pages into Claude Code.
Manus cannot always read logged-in Reddit or paid Substack pages. Web2MD gives you a clean browser-side Markdown handoff.
When a Reddit thread is the source you want Claude to read like a paper — full reply tree, scores, stance mapping. A workflow for researchers, not scrapers.
Claude Opus 4.7's 1M context holds ~500 Reddit threads. The bottleneck isn't 'will Claude read this' — it's how to get 500 threads into one paste.
Reddit is the largest source of real human opinion on niche topics. Feeding it to ChatGPT, Claude, or NotebookLM needs clean text. The 2026 workflow.
Reddit blocks Firecrawl, Jina, even its own API for anonymous reads. The workaround: read the thread from inside your logged-in browser. Full workflow.
Claude can't open Reddit threads — Reddit blocks AI crawlers outright. Here's why, and the one-click fix.