Ask HN: How to unblock RSS feeds on Cloudflare hosted sites?

My blog[1] is hosted on Cloudflare pages. Fee of my readers complained that they’re unable to add my blog in multiple rss readers. Any ideas to bypass this ?

[1] https://rishikeshs.com

34 points | by rishikeshs 195 days ago

5 comments

  • badlibrarian 195 days ago
    65 days ago: "My email is [email protected]. I'd like to hear from the owners of RSS readers directly on what they are experiencing. Going to ask team to take a closer look."

    Nothing happened?

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41864632

    • pointlessone 195 days ago
      Nothing whatsoever. The feeds that failed to fetch in my Miniflux at the time are still failing. If anything a few more feeds joined them with the same symptoms.
    • blitzar 195 days ago
      The team took a look. Working as intended (tm).
  • _kyran 195 days ago
    Use a page rule for the URL pattern of the RSS feeds, and set the bot protection to off.
    • jsheard 195 days ago
      I wonder why CF doesn't disable bot protection on RSS feeds by default. They're supposed to be readable by bots, that's the whole point!
      • KETHERCORTEX 195 days ago
        I guess they don't really care that much to implement all the possible exceptions.
    • kevincox 195 days ago
      Exactly this. You want to turn off bot blocking on all endpoints that are intended to be used by bots.

      Really you should probably turn it off for just about everything on your site unless you are worried about scraping.

    • rishikeshs 195 days ago
      I can’t find an option for turning bot protection off in the drop down.

      Does turning off browser integration works?

  • chuanliang 195 days ago
    https://yeeach.com/389/

    I configure following the steps of this post and it works for me.

    It was written in Chinese, so I just translated it to English.

    Login to your Cloudflare dashboard->Your domain

    Your feed is https://example.com/feed in there

    # Method 1. By WAF rule

    1. Security->Bots Enable Bot Fight Mode Disable Block AI Bots

    2.Security->WAF->Create rule

    https://imgur.com/a/5dtgsQP

    # Method 2. By page Rules just disable the security

    Rules->Page Rules->Create Page Rule

    URL(required ) example.com/feed

    Then the settings are: Disable Security

  • ghjfrdghibt 194 days ago
    All the issues I experience on the internet are related to cloudflare. Only way around them appears to be: don't use Firefox, allow all tracking and ads.

    Any site that throws cloudflare shit up infront of me before I either can get to the site or use a service are immediately discarded as a useless site.

  • Beijinger 195 days ago
    Do yourself a favor and don't use cloudflare: https://expatcircle.com/cms/why-you-should-never-use-cloudfl...

    I am currently thinking about signing up to https://politepol.com/en/prices It can circumvent the Cloudflare blockage of some blogs where I want to subscribe to the RSS feed. Clownflare is the cancer of the internet.

    Worse, even if you don't use it, some wordpress plug-ins seem to use it. You can see if you use the no-script extension. I just threw out a plug-in that I found always suspicious. I think it may have been one cause why my pictures did not index well on google. It seemed to use alicdn without even bother to mention this. WTF?

    • chomp 195 days ago
      So many inaccuracies in that article, I don’t know why you bothered linking it. You could have just made the privacy/single point of failure/web monoculture argument and tossed the rest.
      • KomoD 192 days ago
        > I don’t know why you bothered linking it.

        Because it's their article and they try to get people to use their BunnyCDN affiliate link instead.

      • Beijinger 195 days ago
        This is just another one. What are the inaccuracies? I wonder if there is registrar that uses Cloudflare. This would be the ultimate point of failure.

        Yes, some problems can be solved, e.g. the non-indexing of pictures. But this requires a paid account. Face it. Most people use it as a cheapo CDN. And it is just not worth it.

        Many plug-ins are incompatible with cloudflare, e.g. Multisite. You will basically start building your site around cloudflare.