Gates Notes failed with: Syntax error

[johnmaguire]

JsonException: Syntax error in lib/utils.php line 20

index.php(73): RssBridge->main()
lib/RssBridge.php(39): RssBridge->{closure}()
lib/RssBridge.php(37): CacheMiddleware->__invoke()
middlewares/CacheMiddleware.php(44): RssBridge->{closure}()
lib/RssBridge.php(37): ExceptionMiddleware->__invoke()
middlewares/ExceptionMiddleware.php(17): RssBridge->{closure}()
lib/RssBridge.php(37): SecurityMiddleware->__invoke()
middlewares/SecurityMiddleware.php(19): RssBridge->{closure}()
lib/RssBridge.php(37): MaintenanceMiddleware->__invoke()
middlewares/MaintenanceMiddleware.php(10): RssBridge->{closure}()
lib/RssBridge.php(37): BasicAuthMiddleware->__invoke()
middlewares/BasicAuthMiddleware.php(13): RssBridge->{closure}()
lib/RssBridge.php(37): TokenAuthenticationMiddleware->__invoke()
middlewares/TokenAuthenticationMiddleware.php(10): RssBridge->{closure}()
lib/RssBridge.php(34): DisplayAction->__invoke()
actions/DisplayAction.php(54): DisplayAction->createResponse()
actions/DisplayAction.php(89): GatesNotesBridge->collectData()
bridges/GatesNotesBridge.php(31): Json::decode()
lib/utils.php(20): json_decode()
lib/utils.php(20)

Query string: action=display&bridge=GatesNotesBridge&format=Html
Version: 2025-01-26 (git.master.7c1e01b)
Os: Linux
PHP version: 8.2.28

Maintainer: @corenting

[KappaPrajd]

https://www.gatesnotes.com/api/TGNWebAPI/Get_Filtered_Article_Set?validYearsString=all&setNumber=0&sortByVideo=all&sortByTopic=all returns 404 now.

I tried looking up if the API routes have changes, but couldn't find any information about it. It may be that this API has been decommissioned unfortunately.

[corenting]

The blog has indeed changed. I don't have time to do the changes, but it now uses https://kontent.ai as a CMS. Some notes:

• The endpoints used by the frontend don't give a clean list of recent articles, but there is the API of kontent.ai: https://kontent.ai/learn/docs/apis/openapi/delivery-api .
• It needs an "environment ID" to identify the website, it's 12514eb8-7b51-008e-41a9-512542cf683b (it can be found in the JS files, or in the URL for images files as the first part of the path).
• If you look for the environment ID in the JS files, you can find a valid JWT token for the delivery API. However I guess it's renewed frequently and would need to be extracted from the frontend by the bridge?

[dvikan]

holy shit his new blog is a clusterfuck. dont think this can be salvaged