Reddit Has a 1,000 Saved Posts Limit. Here Is How to Get Around It
If you have been using Reddit for a few years, there is a good chance you have hit a wall without realizing it. Reddit only surfaces your most recent 1,000 saved items (posts and comments combined). Anything older than that disappears from your saved list entirely.
The posts are not actually deleted from Reddit's database. They are still saved on your account internally. But Reddit's API and UI simply stop returning them after the 1,000-item mark. For users who have been saving content for years, this means hundreds or thousands of bookmarks are effectively invisible.
Why the limit exists
Reddit has never officially explained the cap in detail, but it is widely understood to be a pagination limitation in their API. Reddit's listing endpoints return a maximum of 1,000 items across all their "listing" views, including saved posts, upvoted posts, and comment history. This is not a new restriction. It has been in place for over a decade and applies to both Old Reddit and the redesigned site.
Third-party Reddit apps like Apollo (before it was shut down) and Sync also ran into this same ceiling because they relied on the same underlying API.
How to check if you are affected
If you are not sure whether you have hit the limit:
- Go to your Reddit profile and open your Saved tab.
- Scroll all the way to the bottom.
- If the list ends abruptly and you know you have saved more than what is shown, you have likely hit the cap.
There is no counter in Reddit's interface that shows your total save count, which makes this even harder to notice. Most people only discover the limit when they go looking for a specific old post and cannot find it.
What you can do about it
Option 1: Periodically unsave old items
The simplest workaround is to manually unsave posts you no longer need, keeping your total count under 1,000. This is obviously tedious if you have years of saves, and it does not help you if you actually wanted to keep those older posts.
Option 2: Export your saves with a script
Several open-source scripts on GitHub can pull your saved posts using Reddit's API and export them to a CSV or JSON file before they age past the limit. Popular options include:
- reddit-saved-saver (Python) exports saved posts and comments to a structured file.
- BDFR (Bulk Downloader for Reddit) can archive saved posts along with their media attachments.
The downside is that these tools require some technical setup (Python, Reddit API credentials, OAuth). They also only capture what is currently visible through the API, so if you have already lost posts past the 1,000 mark, those cannot be retrieved this way either.
Option 3: Use Reddit's official data export
Reddit allows you to request a copy of your data through Settings → Privacy & Security → Request Your Data (on desktop). The data export includes a list of saved post IDs that goes beyond the 1,000 API limit.
The limitation here is that the export gives you post IDs and URLs, not the actual content. If a post has since been deleted or the subreddit has gone private, the link will be dead. It is also a manual process that takes time to generate and is not something you would want to run regularly.
Option 4: Import into a dedicated bookmark manager
This is the approach that scales best if you are a heavy saver. A social bookmark manager like Siloe imports your Reddit saved posts (and saves from X, TikTok, and other platforms) into a single searchable library. Once imported, the posts live independently of Reddit's API limitations.
The practical benefit is that you are no longer subject to the 1,000-item cap. Your older saves are preserved, searchable, and organized in one place. You can tag them, group them into collections, set reminders, and search through them by keyword, subreddit, username, or even text that appears in images.
If you have already lost access to posts past the limit, Siloe cannot recover those retroactively. But importing your current saves now means you will not lose any more going forward.
Going forward
Reddit has shown no indication that the 1,000-item limit will be raised. It has been a known issue on communities like r/help and r/bugs for years, with no official response suggesting a fix is planned.
If your Reddit saved section is an important part of how you collect information, treating it as temporary storage rather than a permanent archive is the pragmatic move. Export or import your saves regularly, and use a tool that does not have the same limitations.