Bridge request for clean curl-impersonate of extant RSS feed

[Nitrousoxide]

Bridge request

Sometimes RSS feeds get broken by cloudfire protections
Example:
https://porforever.artstation.com/rss

Which will (probably) give a cloudflare error for you if you curl in the terminal, but will load in a browser just fine. Run this through a curl-impersonate container and it will come out fine however.

The existing "Feed reducer" bridge does generate a valid feed of this rss feed, bypassing the cloudlfare block. However it strips out the images and other formatting from the feed.

General information

• How should the information be displayed/formatted?

No formatting changes from the underlying rss feed. Just a simple pass through the curl-impersonate to bypass cloudflare or other blocks.

• Which of the following parameters do you expect?

No parameters needed other than a simple url to pass through curl-impersonate

[dvikan]

hello friend. instructions unclear.

but yes feeds are mangled when they pass through e.g. FeedReducer. this done by rssbridge itself.

[Nitrousoxide]

hello friend. instructions unclear.

but yes feeds are mangled when they pass through e.g. FeedReducer. this done by rssbridge itself.

I'm just looking for a bridge that passes an existing rss feed on the internet through curl-impersonate to bypass cloudflare protection without mangling it like feedreducer does.

Like how doing this will just spit out the unaltered rss feed.

podman run --rm lwthiker/curl-impersonate:0.5-chrome curl_chrome101 https://porforever.artstation.com/rss

Looking at the dockerfile for this project it looks like its built on curl-impersonate

FROM lwthiker/curl-impersonate:0.5-ff-slim-buster AS curlimpersonate

So just having a bridge to run existing rss feeds on the internet through it is useful if cloudflare is blocking them, like it is for artstation ones.

[dvikan]

FilterBridge is closest what you are looking for (if deployed with docker which uses curl-impersonate).

unfortunately rssbridge mangles the feed. it's an issue being worked on

[dvikan]

perhaps a new ProxyBridge can be introduced here. which would essentially be an http proxy for a feed.

[dvikan]

the original problem is kinda silly because rss feeds are supposed to be fetchable by bots

[dvikan]

recent commits may have partially fixed this problem. more of the feed is preserved.