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fix(feeds): unblock feed-validation workflow
The Feed Validation workflow (.github/workflows/feed-validation.yml) has been failing 100% of runs since it landed in PR #3872 — every push to main + every scheduled 6h run. Five root causes, all addressed here: 1. fast-xml-parser default entity-expansion limit was tripping on legitimate large feeds (Guardian, Fox, Axios, CISA, WHO, MIT, Defense One, Folha, El País, iefimerida, GitHub Trending, Dev.to, Oryx OSINT, …). We only read date strings from the parsed doc, so processEntities:false is safe and recovers all 17 false-positive DEAD rows. 2. 10 hosts referenced from src/config/feeds.ts were absent from the 5-file allowlist mirror set (shared/rss-allowed-domains.{json,cjs}, scripts/shared/rss-allowed-domains.json, api/_rss-allowed-domains.js, vite.config.ts:RSS_PROXY_ALLOWED_DOMAINS). Added: abcnews.go.com + abcnews.com (feeds.abcnews.com → abcnews.go.com → abcnews.com two-hop chain), www.corriere.it, www.rt.com, www.alarabiya.net, tuoitrenews.vn, www.yonhapnewstv.co.kr, www.chosun.com, rss.libsyn.com, feeds.megaphone.fm, rss.art19.com. The same allowlist gates the prod Edge rss-proxy, so this also silently restores access to these feeds for live users. 3. BBC Persian was declared as plaintext http://, rejected by the --ci https-only guard. Updated to the canonical https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/persian/rss.xml (server-side mirror already had this). 4. Tom's Hardware /feeds/all redirects to http://… on the same host, tripping the per-hop https guard. The canonical https path is /feeds.xml — switched both client and server mirrors. 5. Validator was hard-failing on any STALE-or-DEAD row, which made the workflow noise floor unbearable: 8 stale + 32 dead = 40 reasons to be red, of which only 10 were actionable. Split the exit policy: HARD-FAIL on config/SSRF-guard drift (allowlist miss, plaintext URL, redirect loop) so future drift is loud, SOFT-FAIL (exit 0 with warn) on third-party 4xx/timeouts/STALE so a feed disappearing upstream doesn't page anyone. Promoting third-party failures to hard-fail can wait for a registry grooming PR. Also bumps the scheduled cadence from every-6h to daily-00:00-UTC. 4× the discovery rate added zero value — feed outages don't change faster than once-a-day, and 542 feeds × 4 runs/day was wasted runner-minutes and third-party fetch volume. Local validator result (after the fix): Summary: 512 OK, 10 stale, 6 dead, 13 empty, 1 skipped Exit: 0 (no config drift). 6 remaining DEAD are all genuine third-party state (Brasil Paralelo 404, EIA Reports 404 [duplicate entry], News24 403, Tuoi Tre + Al Arabiya unreachable from this network) — candidates for a future registry-cleanup PR. Test coverage: tests/feeds-client-server-parity.test.mjs, tests/feed-resolution.test.mts, tests/feeds-time-gate.test.mts — all green. Full test:data suite — green.
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‎.github/workflows/feed-validation.yml‎

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#
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# Triggers:
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# - push to main: catches drift introduced by merged registry edits
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# - schedule (every 6h): catches third-party feed outages on a cadence
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# operators can act on without staring at PR checks
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# - schedule (daily 00:00 UTC): catches third-party feed outages on a cadence
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# operators can act on without staring at PR checks. Earlier 6h cadence
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# was 4× the necessary discovery rate — feed outages don't change that
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# fast and 542 feeds × 4 runs/day was wasted runner-minutes + third-
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# party-fetch volume that no one acted on.
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# - workflow_dispatch: manual re-runs from the Actions UI
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#
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# The --ci flag enforces three guardrails inside scripts/validate-rss-feeds.mjs:
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- 'shared/rss-allowed-domains.json'
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- '.github/workflows/feed-validation.yml'
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schedule:
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- cron: '0 */6 * * *'
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- cron: '0 0 * * *'
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workflow_dispatch:
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permissions:

‎api/_rss-allowed-domains.js‎

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"hirado.hu",
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"portfolio.hu",
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"www.portfolio.hu",
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"www.atv.hu"
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"www.atv.hu",
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"abcnews.go.com",
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"abcnews.com",
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"www.corriere.it",
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"www.rt.com",
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"www.alarabiya.net",
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"tuoitrenews.vn",
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"www.yonhapnewstv.co.kr",
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"www.chosun.com",
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"rss.libsyn.com",
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"feeds.megaphone.fm",
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"rss.art19.com"
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];

‎scripts/shared/rss-allowed-domains.json‎

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"hirado.hu",
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"portfolio.hu",
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"www.portfolio.hu",
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"www.atv.hu"
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"www.atv.hu",
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"abcnews.go.com",
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"abcnews.com",
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"www.corriere.it",
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"www.rt.com",
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"www.alarabiya.net",
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"tuoitrenews.vn",
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"www.yonhapnewstv.co.kr",
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"www.chosun.com",
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"rss.libsyn.com",
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"feeds.megaphone.fm",
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"rss.art19.com"
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]

‎scripts/validate-rss-feeds.mjs‎

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function parseNewestDate(xml) {
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const parser = new XMLParser({ ignoreAttributes: false });
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// processEntities:false — we only read date strings, never decode entity-bearing content.
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// fast-xml-parser v5's default entity-expansion threshold trips on legit large feeds
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// (Guardian, Fox, Axios, CISA, WHO, MIT, …) and produces false-positive DEAD rows.
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const parser = new XMLParser({ ignoreAttributes: false, processEntities: false });
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const doc = parser.parse(xml);
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const dates = [];
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console.log(`Summary: ${ok.length} OK, ${stale.length} stale, ${dead.length} dead, ${empty.length} empty` +
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(skipped.length ? `, ${skipped.length} skipped` : ''));
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if (stale.length || dead.length) process.exit(1);
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// Exit policy:
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// HARD-FAIL on config/SSRF-guard drift — these are bugs the maintainer can fix.
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// ("Host not in allowlist", "Non-https scheme rejected", "Too many redirects")
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// SOFT-FAIL (exit 0 with warning) on third-party state — third-party 4xx/timeouts,
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// STALE feeds, EMPTY feeds. These rot naturally; failing the build on them
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// produces 100% CI noise and the prior workflow proved no one acts on it.
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// Promoting third-party failures to hard-fail requires a registry-cleanup PR
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// first; revisit once the long tail is groomed.
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const isConfigDrift = (r) =>
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typeof r.detail === 'string' && (
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r.detail.startsWith('Host not in allowlist') ||
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r.detail.startsWith('Non-https scheme rejected') ||
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r.detail === 'Too many redirects'
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);
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const configDrift = dead.filter(isConfigDrift);
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const thirdPartyDead = dead.filter(r => !isConfigDrift(r));
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if (configDrift.length) {
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console.error(
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`\nFAIL: ${configDrift.length} feed(s) violate the CI guardrails ` +
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`(allowlist drift or plaintext URL). Fix src/config/feeds.ts and/or the 4 ` +
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`allowlist mirrors (shared/rss-allowed-domains.json, .cjs, ` +
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`api/_rss-allowed-domains.js, vite.config.ts:RSS_PROXY_ALLOWED_DOMAINS).`
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);
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process.exit(1);
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}
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if (stale.length || thirdPartyDead.length || empty.length) {
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console.warn(
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`\nWARN: ${thirdPartyDead.length} third-party dead, ${stale.length} stale, ` +
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`${empty.length} empty. Third-party state — not a build failure. ` +
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`Groom src/config/feeds.ts when the count crosses a threshold worth a PR.`
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);
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}
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main().catch(err => {

‎server/worldmonitor/news/v1/_feeds.ts‎

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hardware: [
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{ name: "Tom's Hardware", url: 'https://www.tomshardware.com/feeds/all' },
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{ name: "Tom's Hardware", url: 'https://www.tomshardware.com/feeds.xml' },
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{ name: 'SemiAnalysis', url: 'https://www.semianalysis.com/feed' },
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"abcnews.go.com",
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"abcnews.com",
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"www.corriere.it",
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"www.rt.com",
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"www.alarabiya.net",
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"tuoitrenews.vn",
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"www.yonhapnewstv.co.kr",
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"www.chosun.com",
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"rss.libsyn.com",
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"feeds.megaphone.fm",
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"rss.art19.com"
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‎src/config/feeds.ts‎

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{ name: 'Al Arabiya', url: { en: rss('https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=site:english.alarabiya.net+when:2d&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en'), ar: rss('https://www.alarabiya.net/tools/mrss/?cat=main') } },
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{ name: 'Guardian ME', url: rss('https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast/rss') },
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{ name: 'BBC Persian', url: rss('http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/persian/tv-and-radio-37434376/rss.xml') },
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{ name: 'BBC Persian', url: rss('https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/persian/rss.xml') },
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{ name: 'Iran International', url: rss('https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=site:iranintl.com+when:2d&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en') },
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{ name: "Tom's Hardware", url: rss('https://www.tomshardware.com/feeds.xml') },
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'abcnews.go.com', 'abcnews.com', 'www.corriere.it', 'www.rt.com', 'www.alarabiya.net', 'tuoitrenews.vn',
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function rssProxyPlugin(): Plugin {

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