All CBC news RSS feeds no longer work #3488
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All CBC news RSS feeds no longer work. Latest news app and Nextcloud as of Dec 15th 2025 |
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So I tested the feed you linked, it works without issues. But I guess you are subscribed to multiple of their feeds and they probably block your IP because you send too many requests in their view. What you could try to do is, activate the last options in the admin settings it will change the update mechanism to predict update intervals and if the feeds are not updated every hour that will make a difference because news will pull the feeds less often. You can see the status later in the feed table view in the normal news app check the options at the bottom left. Of course it will take a while to take effect and I'm not sure it will work since I don't know how they ban your IP. |
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OMG what an idiot (me not you), it never even occurred to me that my IP
might be blocked, I've been using the CBC RSS feed for years. Sigh,
thank you for the suggestion.
On Sun, 2025-12-28 at 23:49 -0800, Benjamin Brahmer wrote:
So I tested the feed you linked, it works without issues.
But I guess you are subscribed to multiple of their feeds and they
probably block your IP because you send too many requests in their
view.
What you could try to do is, activate the last options in the admin
settings it will change the update mechanism to predict update
intervals and if the feeds are not updated every hour that will make
a difference because news will pull the feeds less often.
You can see the status later in the feed table view in the normal
news app check the options at the bottom left.
Of course it will take a while to take effect and I'm not sure it
will work since I don't know how they ban your IP.
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Did it work? I'm currently having the problem where it won't "find" the new feed and add it in the interface in NextCloud |
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It does not work for me, I have tried 2 different Nextcloud instances
one on Digital Ocean and one on Linode, neither one worked.
This is the links page, I tried Top Stories, which is what used to
work.
https://www.cbc.ca/webfeed/rss/rss-topstories
On Thu, 2026-01-22 at 01:53 -0800, mstewart14 wrote:
Did it work? I'm currently having the problem where it won't "find"
the new feed and add it in the interface in NextCloud
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I ran into a similar problem with RePod and the problem was the User-Agent string, I'm going to guess this is the same issue. If you look at this issue at Audiobookshelf CBC Radio podcast RSS feeds fail due to User-Agent string. Would this be a feature request to enable changing the User-Agent string (or perhaps a bug fix? doing as audiobookshelf did and setting up a "fall back" user-agent string that isn't rejected)? This article might provide a small illumination to the problem. I will guess there are may be additonal RSS sources that present similar issues. This list appears to include many user-agent strings that are out there (yes I have shared all of this with CBC as well). Thank you for the awesome software. |
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The problem seems that the feed uses Akamai CDN and that the HTTP client hangs on the first HEAD request . |
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This does appear to be fixed now. I just successfully added and read through a CBC rss feed. |
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I just upgraded to 28.0.1 and trying to add this feed just spins and
doesn't work.
https://www.cbc.ca/webfeed/rss/rss-topstories
cURL error 28: Operation timed out after 60001 milliseconds with 0
bytes received (see https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html)
for https://www.cbc.ca/webfeed/rss/rss-topstories
If I run curl https://www.cbc.ca/webfeed/rss/rss-topstories from the command line it works fine.
On Thu, 2026-03-12 at 10:05 -0700, mstewart14 wrote:
This does appear to be fixed now. I just successfully added and read
through a CBC rss feed.
Thank you so much for the fix.
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Maybe a caching issue. You can try restarting your web server and force reload the news app in the browser. |
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The problem seems that the feed uses Akamai CDN and that the HTTP client hangs on the first HEAD request .
I added time limits to the requests in #3528, which prevents the download from getting stuck.