RSS not available for blog?

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I see from a previous thread on this forum that RSS was an option to retrieve the blog posts. However, the two listed links and usual ones (adding rss or atom at the end of the URL) do not seem to work. Is RSS still available?

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The blog ticker works fine on my Kodi instance:

xbian@avr ~ $ cat .kodi/userdata/RssFeeds.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<rssfeeds>
  <!--RSS feeds. To have multiple feeds, just add a feed to the set. You can also have multiple sets.-->
  <!--To use different sets in your skin, each must be called from skin with a unique id.-->
  <set id="1">
    <feed updateinterval="60">https://pi-hole.net/feed</feed>
  </set>
</rssfeeds>
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Yeah, like deHakkelaar shows, https://pi-hole.net/feed is the proper URL.

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4

Hi guys, thanks for the quick replies. Not sure what to say, though, but this address still does not work on my end – I am using Feeder on Android.

5

Maybe it only supports the Atom feeds and not the RSSv2 feeds?
Kodi is nit picky too and doesnt support the Atom ones ... or at least it used to.

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I am not sure, to be honest, but I can check on that side too. It's just that it is the first time that an apparently valid RSS does not work with Feeder, so I first assumed there was an issue with the feed.

This being said, I checked with a validator and, for what it's worth, it picked up on some issues: RSS Validator Results: https://pi-hole.net/feed

Maybe something in this is the source of the issue.

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$ apt show newsboat
[..]
Description: text mode rss feed reader with podcast support
 newsboat is an RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console. It supports OPML
 import/export, podcasts (via companion program podboat), and can serve as
 a client to various feed aggregators (TT-RSS, The Old Reader, Newsblur,
 FeedHQ, ownCloud/nextCloud News). Its interface draws inspiration from mutt
 and slrn.
 .
 Successor of newsbeuter.

$ sudo apt install newsboat
[..]
After this operation, 10.8 MB of additional disk space will be used.

$ mkdir ~/.newsboat
$

$ nano ~/.newsboat/urls
https://pi-hole.net/feed

$ newsboat
[..]
newsboat 2.21.0 - Articles in feed 'Pi-hole' (10 unread, 10 total) - https://pi-hole.net/feed
   1 N  Feb 17   9.7K  Pi-hole FTL v6.5, Web v6.4.1 and Core v6.4 Released!
   2 N  Nov 27   9.9K  Pi-hole FTL v6.4, Web v6.4 and Core v6.3 Released!
   3 N  Oct 25  35.5K  Pi-hole FTL v6.3, Web v6.3 and Core v6.2 Released!
   4 N  Jul 31  14.4K  Compromised Donor Emails: A post-mortem
   5 N  Jul 14   551   Pi-hole Core v6.1.4 Released
   6 N  Jul 14   2.4K  Pi-hole Core v6.1.3 Released
   7 N  Jun 12   4.0K  Pi-hole FTL v6.2.3 Released
   8 N  Jun 06   9.7K  Pi-hole FTL v6.2.2 Released
   9 N  Jun 02   1.0K  PSA: FTL v6.2 / FTL v6.2.1 crashes workaround
  10 N  May 31 115.2K  Pi-hole FTL v6.2, Web v6.2 and Core v6.1 Released!
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The result clearly says "This feed is valid":

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This RSS feed should work on readers that support RSSv2 feeds.

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Yes, indeed. Look, there is no ill-will, I am simply trying to figure out why this is happening, that's all. I am checking at the moment.

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I'm also just informing you that the Pi-hole RSS should work.
If it is not working for you, there is probably something wrong with the reader you are using.

Did you try other readers?

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Below one?

Works fine for me with default settings and just adding the URL.

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For some unknown reason, the same link that I had saved in Feeder and that was not working yesterday evening, simply started working and loading posts this morning. No idea why. Thanks a lot for taking a moment to try and address this.

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