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There are feeds of everything. You just have to look harder. edit: provide an example please

by 6510 7mo ago

quectophoton 7mo ago
Not exactly a "news" site, but this is still an example site that you'd expect would have a feed: https://mistral.ai/news/ https://mistral.ai/news/
- olowe 7mo ago
  Mistral used to serve a feed actually up until 6ish months ago I guess? Their admin console used to be built with HTMX too which I found kinda interesting. Now the news site and admin console is all in Next.js and slow and no feed.
- 6510 7mo ago
  will this do? https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xSMW/rss-feeds/main/feeds/feed_mistral_news.xml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xSMW/rss-feeds/main/feeds... from here https://github.com/0xSMW/rss-feeds https://github.com/0xSMW/rss-feeds
crabmusket 7mo ago
Here's an example https://help.abc.net.au/hc/en-us/articles/6147104938383-Why-are-RSS-feeds-no-longer-being-updated https://help.abc.net.au/hc/en-us/articles/6147104938383-Why-...
- aragilar 7mo ago
  It's all about licensing sadly...
  - 6510 7mo ago
    It is somehow less funny today but in the 90's we would say "is there something wrong with your hands?" A truly funny story: I wrote an rss aggregator and one day I discover some feeds had died without me noticing it. I looked at the feed, it was gone, I look at my aggregate and the headlines were all there?!?! Since I gather a lot of feeds I couldn't help but noticed that a very large amount isn't wellformed. For example, in xml attributes the & (in urls) is suppose to be &, if you do that however many aggregators won't be able to parse it. Every other month I wrote little bits of code to address the most annoying issues. 1) if I cant find a <link> or <guide> etc I eventually just gather <a>'s and take the href. 2) if I really cant find a title for the item I had it fail back on whatever is in the <a> since I was gathering those anyway. 3) if I cant even find an <item> I just look for the things that are suppose to go in the <item> 4) if I cant find a proper time stamp ill try parse one out of the url 5) if the urls are relative path complete them. What was actually going on: The feed was gone, it redirected to the home page. In an attempt to parse the "xml" it eventually resorted to gathering the url and title from the <a>'s and build valid time stamps from the urls.
- 6510 7mo ago
  Uh, they lie about everything? https://www.abc.net.au/news/feed/51120/rss.xml https://www.abc.net.au/news/feed/51120/rss.xml I haven't fully examined it but looking at the xml I see it was last build in 2026 and a headline about Women's Asian Cup 2026. abc.net.au/news/2026-03-05/matildas-iran-asian-cup-quick-hits-hayley-raso-mary-fowler/106413886
  - crabmusket 7mo ago
    Oh that's wild. I guess the system is just on autopilot and nobody knew how to actually act on their policy change.

There are feeds of everything. You just have to look harder. edit: provide an example please

by 6510 7mo ago

There are feeds of everything. You just have to look harder. edit: provide an example please

Not exactly a "news" site, but this is still an example site that you'd expect would have a feed: https://mistral.ai/news/ https://mistral.ai/news/

olowe 7mo ago
Mistral used to serve a feed actually up until 6ish months ago I guess? Their admin console used to be built with HTMX too which I found kinda interesting. Now the news site and admin console is all in Next.js and slow and no feed.
6510 7mo ago
will this do? https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xSMW/rss-feeds/main/feeds/feed_mistral_news.xml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xSMW/rss-feeds/main/feeds... from here https://github.com/0xSMW/rss-feeds https://github.com/0xSMW/rss-feeds

crabmusket 7mo ago

Here's an example https://help.abc.net.au/hc/en-us/articles/6147104938383-Why-are-RSS-feeds-no-longer-being-updated https://help.abc.net.au/hc/en-us/articles/6147104938383-Why-...

aragilar 7mo ago
It's all about licensing sadly...
- 6510 7mo ago
  It is somehow less funny today but in the 90's we would say "is there something wrong with your hands?" A truly funny story: I wrote an rss aggregator and one day I discover some feeds had died without me noticing it. I looked at the feed, it was gone, I look at my aggregate and the headlines were all there?!?! Since I gather a lot of feeds I couldn't help but noticed that a very large amount isn't wellformed. For example, in xml attributes the & (in urls) is suppose to be &, if you do that however many aggregators won't be able to parse it. Every other month I wrote little bits of code to address the most annoying issues. 1) if I cant find a <link> or <guide> etc I eventually just gather <a>'s and take the href. 2) if I really cant find a title for the item I had it fail back on whatever is in the <a> since I was gathering those anyway. 3) if I cant even find an <item> I just look for the things that are suppose to go in the <item> 4) if I cant find a proper time stamp ill try parse one out of the url 5) if the urls are relative path complete them. What was actually going on: The feed was gone, it redirected to the home page. In an attempt to parse the "xml" it eventually resorted to gathering the url and title from the <a>'s and build valid time stamps from the urls.
6510 7mo ago
Uh, they lie about everything? https://www.abc.net.au/news/feed/51120/rss.xml https://www.abc.net.au/news/feed/51120/rss.xml I haven't fully examined it but looking at the xml I see it was last build in 2026 and a headline about Women's Asian Cup 2026. abc.net.au/news/2026-03-05/matildas-iran-asian-cup-quick-hits-hayley-raso-mary-fowler/106413886
- crabmusket 7mo ago
  Oh that's wild. I guess the system is just on autopilot and nobody knew how to actually act on their policy change.