Hello Samuel,
I am trying to add an RSS feed, but get an error message:
Site: https://razzball.com/feed/
Error: “This address does not point to an RSS feed or a website with an RSS feed.”
Any help you could provide would be appreciated. Thank you!
pk
Samuel,
A full week has passed since my post. What updates can you provide on why the site cannot be added? Thank you.
pk
Can you please acknowledge this problem? It’s been over two weeks since I reported difficulty adding this feed to Newsblur. I can add the feed to https://rssviewer.app/ without any issue, so I assume the problem is on Newsblur’s end?
pk
Sorry for the delay. The problem is that it does work, at least locally.
That means that the publisher has probably turned on some anti-AI bot setting that blocks RSS readers. I suggest letting them know, it’s been a weird default on Cloudflare for a year now.
Samuel,
Thank you for the reply! I will pass this info along to one of the site admins.
pk
Unfortunately, that is not the solution. Per an admin: “the bot options are disabled in our Cloudflare.”
As I said in an earlier reply, the feed can be successfully added to another RSS reader (https://rssviewer.app/), so I assume the problem is on Newsblur’s end.
What other ideas do you have to resolve the issue? Thank you!
pk
They are blocking NewsBlur through Cloudflare. Take a look at this code:
>>> import feedparser
>>> fp = feedparser.parse("https://razzball.com/feed/")
>>> fp
{'bozo': 1, 'entries': [], 'feed': {'html': {'class': 'no-js', 'lang': 'en-US'}, 'meta': {'name': 'viewport', 'content': 'width=device-width,initial-scale=1'}, 'links': [{'rel': 'stylesheet', 'id': 'cf_styles-css', 'href': 'https://razzball.com/cdn-cgi/styles/cf.errors.css', 'type': 'text/html'}], 'summary': '<div id="cf-wrapper">\n <div class="cf-alert cf-alert-error cf-cookie-error" id="cookie-alert">Please enable cookies.</div>\n <div class="cf-error-details-wrapper" id="cf-error-details">\n <div class="cf-wrapper cf-header cf-error-overview">\n <h1>Sorry, you have been blocked</h1>\n <h2 class="cf-subheadline"><span>You are unable to access</span> razzball.com</h2>\n </div>\n\n <div class="cf-section cf-highlight">\n <div class="cf-wrapper">\n <div class="cf-screenshot-container cf-screenshot-full">\n \n <span class="cf-no-screenshot error"></span>\n \n </div>\n </div>\n </div>\n\n <div class="cf-section cf-wrapper">\n <div class="cf-columns two">\n <div class="cf-column">\n <h2>Why have I been blocked?</h2>\n\n <p>This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data.</p>\n </div>\n\n <div class="cf-column">\n <h2>What can I do to resolve this?</h2>\n\n <p>You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.</p>\n </div>\n </div>\n </div>\n\n <div class="cf-error-footer cf-wrapper w-240 lg:w-full py-10 sm:py-4 sm:px-8 mx-auto text-center sm:text-left border-solid border-0 border-t border-gray-300">\n <p class="text-13">\n <span class="cf-footer-item sm:block sm:mb-1">Cloudflare Ray ID: <strong class="font-semibold">9822d34c6aa18b20</strong></span>\n <span class="cf-footer-separator sm:hidden">•</span>\n <span class="cf-footer-item hidden sm:block sm:mb-1" id="cf-footer-item-ip">\n Your IP:\n <button class="cf-footer-ip-reveal-btn" id="cf-footer-ip-reveal" type="button">Click to reveal</button>\n <span class="hidden" id="cf-footer-ip">65.109.136.108</span>\n <span class="cf-footer-separator sm:hidden">•</span>\n </span>\n <span class="cf-footer-item sm:block sm:mb-1"><span>Performance & security by</span> <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/5xx-error-landing" id="brand_link" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cloudflare</a></span>\n \n </p>\n &&&&&&\n </div>\n\n </div>\n </div>'}, 'headers': {'date': 'Sat, 20 Sep 2025 16:51:03 GMT', 'content-type': 'text/html; charset=UTF-8', 'transfer-encoding': 'chunked', 'connection': 'close', 'cache-control': 'private, max-age=0, no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0', 'expires': 'Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:01 GMT', 'referrer-policy': 'same-origin', 'x-frame-options': 'SAMEORIGIN', 'vary': 'accept-encoding', 'report-to': '{"group":"cf-nel","max_age":604800,"endpoints":[{"url":"https://a.nel.cloudflare.com/report/v4?s=8TftNiPNzjwsNxNPieijEn9Fhc0%2FrWM5o1xoDM8Us%2BqxqFCnmvt0KR5x5a4xwyUflRlt82wfspz8QQrr1bvUgOX0wV5oEBEJJefkXQ%3D%3D"}]}', 'nel': '{"report_to":"cf-nel","success_fraction":0.0,"max_age":604800}', 'content-encoding': 'gzip', 'server': 'cloudflare', 'cf-ray': '9822d34c6aa18b20-ARN', 'alt-svc': 'h3=":443"; ma=86400'}, 'href': 'https://razzball.com/feed/', 'status': 403, 'encoding': 'UTF-8', 'bozo_exception': SAXParseException('undefined entity'), 'version': '', 'namespaces': {}}
Specifically this part:
<h1>Sorry, you have been blocked</h1>
I just wanted to say thanks for your help on this. Your last reply contained the information the site’s admin needed. Newsblur is reading the feed now, and there doesn’t seem to be any issues. Hooray!
pk