Miniflux can't fetch any articles from certain feeds - compatibility issue?

[00dani]

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I'm self-hosting both Miniflux and Wallabag, so naturally I've asked Miniflux to subscribe to the Wallabag News page so I know when I need to update. However I've just realised that this hasn't been working: MIniflux hasn't pulled any articles from the Wallabag News feed at all. There are no error messages; Miniflux simply says "There are no articles for this feed.".

I've tested that feed in a few other tools: it works perfectly well in Vienna RSS and the Feed Preview addon I use when seeking out new feeds. I've also tried fetching the same feed with curl on the host where I run Miniflux, so I know there isn't a weird network issue preventing Miniflux from retrieving that file. It all should be working.

However, I've found there are a few warnings when I pass the feed to the W3 Feed Validation Service. These are:

• the rel="self" for https://wallabag.org/en/news.rss incorrectly points to https://wallabag.org/news.rss rather than itself
• every article has an empty <category></category> element
• some of the description fields contain relative URLs to images, rather than absolute

Apparently the feed is still technically valid despite these problems, but not all feed readers will handle it correctly. Is Miniflux such a feed reader? Are some of those problems causing it not to find any articles? 🤔

[fguillot]

Works fine for me. Note that the last articles is 10 months old.

If you have marked all entries as read. You can still see older articles by clicking on "show all entries":

[00dani]

Hmm, that's very odd. I do know I can click "show all entries" to view the ones I've already read, but on my installation of Miniflux that doesn't seem to achieve anything:

Here's the configuration for the feed. It's pretty standard? No special rules or settings.

I'm running Miniflux 2.0.34 on an Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS server, if that's relevant. And the schema is at version 53, it doesn't need migrating. 🤔

[clajiness]

Hello. I'm running into a similar issue with some feeds. I apologize if this is ultimately not related, but it seems to be.

For testing, I'm running this feed in both Miniflux and Reader 5 on an iPhone 13 Pro. https://cityofardenhills.org/RSSFeed.aspx?ModID=58&CID=All-calendar.xml

I added the feed to both apps at the same time and pulled down 41 articles from between 15 November 2021 and 13 January 2022. The apps were identical at that point. Since then, Reader 5 has pulled down two new articles from 16 January 2022. These two articles are not being pulled down by Miniflux. To clarify, Miniflux has not pulled any new articles since the feed was added.

When manually refreshing the feed, this is what I see in the logs. I have DEBUG=on set.

Jan 25 16:56:18 miniflux miniflux[652]: [DEBUG] [Worker #1] Received feed #4 for user #1
Jan 25 16:56:18 miniflux miniflux[652]: [DEBUG] [HTTPS] 10.251.2.11 GET /feeds
Jan 25 16:56:18 miniflux miniflux[652]: [DEBUG] [HttpClient:Before] Method=GET InputURL="https://cityofardenhills.org/RSSFeed.aspx?ModID=58&CID=All-calendar.xml" ETag=" " LastMod=None Auth=false UserAgent="Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Miniflux/2.0.35; +https://miniflux.app)" Verify=true
Jan 25 16:56:18 miniflux miniflux[652]: [DEBUG] [HttpClient:After] Method=GET InputURL="https://cityofardenhills.org/RSSFeed.aspx?ModID=58&CID=All-calendar.xml" ETag=" " LastMod=None Auth=false UserAgent="Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Miniflux/2.0.35; +https://miniflux.app)" Verify=true; Response => StatusCode=200 EffectiveURL="https://cityofardenhills.org/RSSFeed.aspx?ModID=58&CID=All-calendar.xml" LastModified="" ETag=" " Expires= ContentType="text/xml; charset=utf-8" ContentLength=-1
Jan 25 16:56:18 miniflux miniflux[652]: [DEBUG] [HttpClient] inputURL=https://cityofardenhills.org/RSSFeed.aspx?ModID=58&CID=All-calendar.xml took 604.858488ms
Jan 25 16:56:18 miniflux miniflux[652]: [DEBUG] [RefreshFeed] Feed #4 not modified
Jan 25 16:56:18 miniflux miniflux[652]: [DEBUG] [RefreshFeed] feedID=4 took 706.623864ms

If I've missed any necessary logging, please let me know.

The two articles that Reader picked up and Miniflux missed are:

• https://www.cityofardenhills.org/Calendar.aspx?EID=3381
• https://www.cityofardenhills.org/Calendar.aspx?EID=3304

For reference, I'm running 2.0.35 with schema version 54 with Postgres version 10.19 on Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS.

Also, many other feeds work perfectly fine. This is just one of a few that doesn't. Figured I'd help troubleshoot, if possible. Thanks much!