That's supposed to be the RSS feed for their world news. As of yesterday, it--and all other NPR RSS feeds that I can find--return the same result. No public announcement or anything else that I...
That's supposed to be the RSS feed for their world news. As of yesterday, it--and all other NPR RSS feeds that I can find--return the same result.
No public announcement or anything else that I can find.
Does anyone else follow NPR thru RSS? Seeing the same issue? Any workaround?
Danke, y gracias.
Edit to add:
Visiting that URL directly (from Germany) returns "message: forbidden".
Trying to subscribe to it (or any NPR RSS feed) returns:
Client error: GET https://feeds.npr.org/1004/rss.xml resulted in a 403 Forbidden response: {"message":"Forbidden"}
After I turn on VPN to a Chicago-based IP, visiting that URL directly seems to work -- I can see the full RSS article-list that I would expect ... However, trying to subscribe to the RSS feed still returns the "cannot subscribe: 403 Forbidden" error.
Tested in multiple browsers, on multiple machines. ProtonVPN.
Further testing ... visiting the URL directly ... this works from US and Canadian IPs, but not from Mexican, German, Dutch IPs (and, I assume, the rest of the World).
Actually subscribing to the RSS feed fails, no matter what IP address, or protocol, I choose thru my VPN.
Suggestions?
UPDATE: So, I just emailed NPR, asking if this was a temporary or permanent change, policy decision, etc ... and further, if it is a policy decision, asking them to reconsider geoblocking.
Not sure it matters, but I was a Wisconsin resident and for many years, a paid supporter/subscriber to WPR, so perhaps that will count for something.
Not the OP, but the response I'm getting is: {"message":"Forbidden"} Interesting that this doesn't happen to everyone though? So there must be some condition for it
Not the OP, but the response I'm getting is: {"message":"Forbidden"}
Interesting that this doesn't happen to everyone though? So there must be some condition for it
I saw that you got it mostly working but I was also having issues with the RSS feed even though I am an American so my solution was to use a cronjob that runs wget --mirror on their minimal text...
I saw that you got it mostly working but I was also having issues with the RSS feed even though I am an American so my solution was to use a cronjob that runs wget --mirror on their minimal text based site text.npr.org and then uses python's built in webserver to host that mirrored the website
Weirdly, I'm also getting a 403 error and I live in the US, pennsylvania specifically. Turning on a VPN and connecting to a server on the other side of the state works though. I wonder if some...
Weirdly, I'm also getting a 403 error and I live in the US, pennsylvania specifically. Turning on a VPN and connecting to a server on the other side of the state works though. I wonder if some mobile ips are being blocked as well?
Playing with a proxy from a few different locations, it seems they're throwing an HTTP 403 Forbidden for anyone outside the US. Edit: just saw your edit. What RSS client are you using? Are you...
Playing with a proxy from a few different locations, it seems they're throwing an HTTP 403 Forbidden for anyone outside the US.
Edit: just saw your edit. What RSS client are you using? Are you sure it's correctly using the same VPN that lets you query the feed directly? If that's not the problem, maybe the RSS client is sending some other geographic-related header that is tripping the block.
Oooh ... I bet that's the issue. I'm using the RSS plug-in on my self-hosted Nextcloud server ... but that server is located in Amsterdam. Presumably, the RSS reader uses that IP address--rather...
Oooh ... I bet that's the issue. I'm using the RSS plug-in on my self-hosted Nextcloud server ... but that server is located in Amsterdam. Presumably, the RSS reader uses that IP address--rather than my local VPN-spoofed IP.
Clearly, time to bring my self-hosting services in-house.
Double-checked and yeah from my home address, forbidden, VPN to the US, works fine. It's georestricted. Likely as a cost-cutting measure, they're struggling rn
Double-checked and yeah from my home address, forbidden, VPN to the US, works fine. It's georestricted. Likely as a cost-cutting measure, they're struggling rn
That's supposed to be the RSS feed for their world news. As of yesterday, it--and all other NPR RSS feeds that I can find--return the same result.
No public announcement or anything else that I can find.
Does anyone else follow NPR thru RSS? Seeing the same issue? Any workaround?
Danke, y gracias.
Edit to add:
Visiting that URL directly (from Germany) returns "message: forbidden".
Trying to subscribe to it (or any NPR RSS feed) returns:
Client error:
GET https://feeds.npr.org/1004/rss.xmlresulted in a403 Forbiddenresponse: {"message":"Forbidden"}After I turn on VPN to a Chicago-based IP, visiting that URL directly seems to work -- I can see the full RSS article-list that I would expect ... However, trying to subscribe to the RSS feed still returns the "cannot subscribe: 403 Forbidden" error.
Tested in multiple browsers, on multiple machines. ProtonVPN.
Further testing ... visiting the URL directly ... this works from US and Canadian IPs, but not from Mexican, German, Dutch IPs (and, I assume, the rest of the World).
Actually subscribing to the RSS feed fails, no matter what IP address, or protocol, I choose thru my VPN.
Suggestions?
UPDATE: So, I just emailed NPR, asking if this was a temporary or permanent change, policy decision, etc ... and further, if it is a policy decision, asking them to reconsider geoblocking.
Not sure it matters, but I was a Wisconsin resident and for many years, a paid supporter/subscriber to WPR, so perhaps that will count for something.
I will update again, if I get a reply.
The feed works fine for me, what exactly are you seeing and have you tried using a different browser/VPN?
Not the OP, but the response I'm getting is:
{"message":"Forbidden"}Interesting that this doesn't happen to everyone though? So there must be some condition for it
VPN changes--but does not fix--the results. See my updated original post.
What result is that?
"403 Forbidden" -- see my updated original post.
I saw that you got it mostly working but I was also having issues with the RSS feed even though I am an American so my solution was to use a cronjob that runs wget --mirror on their minimal text based site text.npr.org and then uses python's built in webserver to host that mirrored the website
Weirdly, I'm also getting a 403 error and I live in the US, pennsylvania specifically. Turning on a VPN and connecting to a server on the other side of the state works though. I wonder if some mobile ips are being blocked as well?
Playing with a proxy from a few different locations, it seems they're throwing an HTTP 403 Forbidden for anyone outside the US.
Edit: just saw your edit. What RSS client are you using? Are you sure it's correctly using the same VPN that lets you query the feed directly? If that's not the problem, maybe the RSS client is sending some other geographic-related header that is tripping the block.
Oooh ... I bet that's the issue. I'm using the RSS plug-in on my self-hosted Nextcloud server ... but that server is located in Amsterdam. Presumably, the RSS reader uses that IP address--rather than my local VPN-spoofed IP.
Clearly, time to bring my self-hosting services in-house.
Double-checked and yeah from my home address, forbidden, VPN to the US, works fine. It's georestricted. Likely as a cost-cutting measure, they're struggling rn