NPP RSS Feed broken?
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I’ve been getting an error for about a week accessing the NPP RSS feed. I’m getting “Feed not found - Wrong feed URL or dead feed” in Feedly.
Anybody else?
Does NPP auto-check for updates? I’ve always updated based on RSS feed letting me know…
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I don’t use it myself, but when I go to to the main website and click on the RSS link, it takes me to https://notepad-plus-plus.org/index.xml, which looks like a reasonable RSS feed.
Does NPP auto-check for updates
Yes, it automatically checks for updates, unless you’ve turned off that option. But note that, as it says in the NPP User Manual > Upgrading page – specifically, “No new version found: safety delay” – the automatic update is only triggered on a release once the developer is confident that a release is stable.
The Downloads page now updates the title of the most recent version to have been triggered for auto-update. For example, right now, it shows:
This means that while v8.7.1 has been released, it hasn’t been triggered for auto-update, so v8.7 is still the one that Notepad++'s ? > Update Notepad++ will see.
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@PeterJones Thanks for your reply!
Ok I believe I’ve determined that for some reason only FEEDLY is being blocked / failing.
I’ll reach out to them, but possibly did their system make too many requests in a given time period and get suspended/blocked?
Thx.
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only FEEDLY is being blocked / failing.
I’ll reach out to themmakes sense.
possibly did their system make too many requests in a given time period and get suspended/blocked
I mean, possibly. But from what I know of such RSS-aggregator services like feedly or podcast readers, they have caching on their end, to avoid just such an occurrence, so I find it highly unlikely that they would have sent levels of requests sufficient to be blocked. The best is just to reach out to them and tell them that you can see that RSS feed just fine manually, but Feedly is failing to grab the RSS feed, and let them figure it out.
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@PeterJones sadly their free account inc;ludes zero tech support contact. May jump to another reader - tested with ‘feeder’ and the npp feed is fine :)
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[Didn’t notice that this discussion dates back to 2024… I am having the same issue.]
An email was mentioned by an employee on a Reddit thread, and I wrote to them.
This is their reply:
Hi!
Thank you for contacting us. My name is Kevin, and I’m here to assist you! :)
I’ve looked into this and we’re being blocked by them sometimes. They’d have to whitelist our IP range, which is: 8.29.198.0/24 and that would fix it.
Thanks!
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@Bruno-Guillemette said in NPP RSS Feed broken?:
I’ve looked into this and we’re being blocked by them sometimes. They’d have to whitelist our IP range, which is: 8.29.198.0/24 and that would fix it.
This Forum is a Community of Notepad++ users. If you want to contact the developer, you’d have to either create an issue in the main GitHub repo (which isn’t really where website errors belong, but sometimes people post them there) or email Don directly (his contact information is on the Notepad++ website). If you would like him to “whitelist” an IP range to be able to see the RSS feed, you’d have to contact him, not us.
My guess is there isn’t any setting on the Notepad++ website itself which is directly blocking Feedly. My guess is that Feedly isn’t passing the CloudFlare captcha, so CloudFlare (which inserts itself between user requests and the underlying website) is the one that’s blocking Feedly, not any setting on the Notepad++ website. (And honestly, the fact that the employee in the email you quoted is not knowledgable enough to have tried accessing the RSS feed directly, and seeing that a CloudFlare are-you-a-human prompt comes up, makes me wonder about the quality of their support.) However, I seem to remember that Don was able to make it so that the updater-XML URL was “unblocked” for CloudFlare, so maybe he’d be able to do the same for the RSS URL… but I don’t know.
