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rei77



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PostPosted: Sun Apr 27, 2025 7:42 am Reply with quote
I've been getting this error lately from the RSS feed. Service in use is IFTTT



I use it to check all the news from my discord server
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esm



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 12:25 pm Reply with quote
Yeah, my miniflux instance has started throwing errors fetching the RSS feed as of a few days ago:

Code:
Unable to fetch feed" user_id=1 feed_id=69 feed_url="https://animenewsnetwork.com/news/atom.xml?ann-edition=us" error="fetcher: access forbidden (403 status code)


When I manually retrieve the URL, I'm getting the CloudFlare bot protection page. ANN should probably exclude the RSS URLs from that.
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rei77



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 7:24 pm Reply with quote
Glad i'm not the only one. Hope the devs fix this soon
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SiliconDon



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PostPosted: Thu May 01, 2025 7:05 am Reply with quote
Same here. I’ve been using siftrss to get articles about English dubs but those feeds stopped working this week
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Tempest
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PostPosted: Thu May 01, 2025 12:21 pm Reply with quote
Hi Everyone,

This is due to advanced bot protection that we've enabled. Over the last few months bots have tripled the daily traffic to ANN (from around 1 million page views a day to 3 million page views a day).

These bots are slowing down our serves, and messing with our advertisers as well.

Last week we enabled bot protection on our CDN, but it has had some unintended consequences, so we've lowered the sensitivity and we're hoping this will cut out some of the "bad" bots, while also allowing through legit traffic.

Can you let me know if your RSS feeds are working now ?
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esm



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PostPosted: Thu May 01, 2025 12:40 pm Reply with quote
Tempest wrote:
Can you let me know if your RSS feeds are working now ?
Code:
level=WARN msg="Unable to fetch feed" user_id=1 feed_id=69 feed_url="https://animenewsnetwork.com/news/atom.xml?ann-edition=us" error="fetcher: access forbidden (403 status code)"

A quick manual check with curl says it's still throwing up the bot protection page. Sad Can't you just disable bot protection for the rss/atom URLs? Those are meant to be accessed by bots...
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SiliconDon



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PostPosted: Fri May 02, 2025 6:09 am Reply with quote
Tempest wrote:
Can you let me know if your RSS feeds are working now ?


Still inaccessible unfortunately.
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AyanamiSan



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PostPosted: Sat May 03, 2025 5:39 am Reply with quote
Came here since I noticed the same problem.
While I can easily access rss from the browser, I can't access it neither from my tt-rss instance (on the server), nor via curl from the same PC I tried with the browser.
tbh any attempt at "protecting" rss/atom feeds from bots will just make them unusable (or will make people try shady solutions to go around the problem). Like @esm said two posts earlier, these are *meant* to be used by bots...
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R~S



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PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2025 9:40 am Reply with quote
I was coming to ask about this, so at least I know it's not only me...

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Dan42
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PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2025 9:27 pm Reply with quote
It should be working now. Can someone confirm?
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esm



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PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2025 9:33 pm Reply with quote
Yep, looks like it's working now.
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R~S



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PostPosted: Tue May 06, 2025 1:06 am Reply with quote
Dan42 wrote:
It should be working now. Can someone confirm?

I can turn it on now, so looks like it. Thanks!
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rei77



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PostPosted: Tue May 13, 2025 2:35 am Reply with quote
It works now, thanks.
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