I use to be able to add Bluesky feeds using Open RSS, but now it simply says “This address does not point to an RSS feed or a website with an RSS feed.” However, the previous feeds I’ve added are still working fine, but I cannot add any new feeds.
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What’s the full URL, I want to check it out and see what NewsBlur sees.
For example: <![CDATA[teh yoshi (tehyoshi.bsky.social)]]>
Looks like OpenRSS is treating NewsBlur’s feed fetchers as browser and serving the same page you see when you visit that url in your browser. I suggest reaching out to them and request that they look for NewsBlur’s user agent and serve the correct feed. They’re being a bit too clever on the RSS feed and serving the wrong content.
I don’t think that’s correct. I assumed this same thing before and when I curl the URL, it shows the correct XML.
curl https://openrss.org/bsky.app/profile/jay.bsky.team
So Newsblur must be doing something odd with the result.
That’s because curl has its own User-Agent. NewsBlur uses a User-Agent that combines a browser user agent with the NewsBlur site stats. I arrived at this mixed user agent after learning years ago that many sites block User-Agents that don’t contain browser data.
It’s not the user agent, it’s the Accept header. Is it passing the appropriate XML mime type? I used this guide here
I was able to contact Open RSS about this. It appears that Newsblur’s feed finder is making a lot of requests to paths on the openrss.org server that are not valid and doing it in rapid succession. So the app gets blocked. Attached request logs. I’m guessing Newsblur is trying to find RSS feeds at paths that don’t exist?
They also are saying that they have logs that show Newsblur making over 20 requests within a second. No screenshot was provided, but making that many requests at the same time isn’t good.
New user. Can’t add The Verge - All Posts
Tried app, which says “bad gateway (502)” and via website which says “there was a problem”.
Restarted app and TheVerge feed showed up.
@tehyoshi has the issue been fixed for you?
After emailing with Open RSS, NewsBlur should be turned back on and these feeds should work now.
Still having the same issue
It should work now: NewsBlur
It seems to be now working on some accounts, but still not others:
What’s a URL of a non-working feed?
Here’s an example: <![CDATA[Joaquín Baldwin (joabaldwin.com)]]>
Stopped by to say that I’m also having issues with most OpenRSS feeds.
Specifically <![CDATA[Open RSS Changelog]]> but also a bunch of Bluesky passthrough feeds as well.