Bangkok Post - Blocking Newsblur?

freeAgent · June 30, 2025, 7:01pm

A week or two ago, Bangkok Post’s RSS feeds in Newsblur stopped functioning. It looks to me like the feeds are still fine when I check them locally, so I believe that perhaps Newsblur is getting blocked by the Bangkok Post website for some reason. Can someone look into this?

Vegan0316 · July 5, 2025, 12:15am

It looks like you’re right. Did you check the log?

(404) 2025-06-23 10:19:11 Feed has no original page: No data found
2025-06-19 14:53:59 OK (200)

It’s not just the RSS feed, which returns a 451 error, but Newsblur can’t even access bangkokpost.com itself. Seems like the Bangkok Post either blacklisted Newsblur specifically or is blacklisting IPs from wherever the Newsblur server polls from.

The feed works fine for me in my free Inoreader account.

freeAgent · July 5, 2025, 1:55am

Yeah, I assume they must have recently implemented some aggressive anti-bot blacklisting and Newsblur, unfortunately, got caught up in it.