Two Feed Issues

kjtree · January 18, 2025, 8:56am

Hello. Two issues:

Feed for https://www.wbaltv.com/topstories-rss does not work. This url works on other readers.
Feed for balloonjuice.com does not automatically load new stories; I have to manually refresh it to receive updates. This issue does not occur on other readers.

Thanks.

jsled · January 18, 2025, 3:13pm

https://www.balloon-juice.com/feed/ works fine for me generally, though NewsBlur’s feed statistics show a bunch of failures to parse over the last 2 days intermixed with successes.

https://www.wbaltv.com/topstories-rss appears legit, but as I add it to newsblur, Site Statistics shows 451 (unavailable for legal reasons) responses.

flpp · January 22, 2025, 11:00am

Not available in France either

kjtree · January 23, 2025, 12:34pm

Thanks for the feedback. I continue to have no luck with balloonjuice. The screenshot below shows that the feed address is “not an RSS feed”. This exact address is working flawlessly on two other readers, even after deleting and re-adding it a few times to test. The successful attempts are when I did an instafetch.

As for the WBAL site…I am not sure what “legal reasons” encompass, but I have zero issues on the test readers.

And now, after several attempts to add, these two feeds are also giving me HTML errors (403/forbidden). Again these sites work without issues on the other test readers I used.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/harford/rss2.0.xml
https://www.baltimoresun.com/rss

Any input on figuring out something to make these work would be appreciated!
Thanks.

Balloonjuice:

samuelclay · January 23, 2025, 5:30pm

Is this the same feed? https://www.newsblur.com/site/4714760/balloon-juice

kjtree · January 23, 2025, 5:43pm

That is the site, yes.

kjtree · February 13, 2025, 4:42pm

Hi. I was just checking back re: the feed issues I am having. The Balloon Juice feed still only updates intermittently (at best). And I am still having problems getting the feed from WBALTV and The Baltimore Sun (Maryland page). Everything else works perfectly fine per usual! I wouldn’t be so confused if I didn’t find that the three problem sites work without issue on other feed readers I have tested out for this exact purpose. Like, no http errors, no legal reasons, nothing of the sort. Let me know if you need the specific sites, errors, screenshots, etc. Thanks again.