Some of you might remember Claude Code Daily. Every night a pipeline read this sub, scored the threads, and wrote a digest in a late-night-show voice. Repo of the day, best comment award, troll of the day. It ran 43 straight days and then died in April. Reddit started 403-blocking the public JSON API from datacenter and residential IPs alike. My collector went from 170 posts a day to zero, and the claude CLI call sat there timing out against empty data. If you’re scraping Reddit for anything, old.reddit.com server-rendered HTML still loads fine inside a real headless Chromium. Plain requests gets blocked, but Playwright with a normal user agent and a politeness gap between navigations carries it. Parse the .thing divs with BeautifulSoup and you get id, score, comment count, timestamp, everything the JSON gave you. Same transport now feeds my newsletter pipeline too. Claude Code did the surgery on its own show. It swapped the transport layer, bumped the subprocess timeouts (claude -p can take 10 minutes to start when multiple sessions fight for the machine), and wrote tonight’s episode on the first try. It runs Monday to Friday at midnight, weekend edition Saturdays, published as a blog post. Tonight’s episode covered the Fable 5 grief posts, the hackathon shirt with a prompt injection visible in the photo, and the gear shifter build. https://shawnos.ai/claude-daily if you want to read it. Happy to share the transport code if anyone’s fighting the same 403s. submitted by /u/Shawntenam
Originally posted by u/Shawntenam on r/ClaudeCode