# Trouble with a RSS feed
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/trouble-with-a-rss-feed/226717
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** rss-polling
**Created:** [May 11, 2022, 1:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trouble-with-a-rss-feed/226717 "2022-05-11T01:21:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@nathank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nathank)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2022, 1:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trouble-with-a-rss-feed/226717/1 "2022-05-11T01:21:36Z")
Continuing the discussion from [Configure the Discourse RSS Polling Plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/configure-the-discourse-rss-polling-plugin/156387):
Hi - I’m struggling to get the RSS Polling Plugin to work for my RSS feed: [https://www.hinz.org.nz/resource/rss/news.rss](https://www.hinz.org.nz/resource/rss/news.rss)
My browser (Chrome) doesn’t want to open it. But when I run it through a validator it seems to be okay:
Is there something I’m missing in the config?
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### Author:  [@craigconstantine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/craigconstantine)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2022, 2:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trouble-with-a-rss-feed/226717/3 "2022-05-11T14:06:22Z")
Curiously, I get a 403 if I try `curl` …
```plaintext
Craigs-iMac:~ craig$ curl -I https://www.hinz.org.nz/resource/rss/news.rss
HTTP/2 403
date: Wed, 11 May 2022 14:04:59 GMT
content-type: text/html
content-length: 1233
x-datadome: protected
accept-ch: Sec-CH-UA,Sec-CH-UA-Mobile,Sec-CH-UA-Platform,Sec-CH-UA-Arch,Sec-CH-UA-Full-Version-List,Sec-CH-UA-Model,Sec-CH-Device-Memory
set-cookie: datadome=EU3BHAFHQ05_KVgwW1Wjs9oOG7yBN6ViNb-Z0zhemMzTdky84_xqOxGy~PCdj6GF2paWbjlV6YBVr8EffwN.eBXFJjRmcsp9ix7FLkAxA2yCry0Eo6sLlqchK2zbnjV; Max-Age=31536000; Domain=.hinz.org.nz; Path=/; Secure; SameSite=Lax
location: http://www.hinz.org.nz/resource/rss/news.rss
x-powered-by: ASP.NET
referrer-policy: no-referrer-when-downgrade
strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000
x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block
x-content-type-options: nosniff
```
Maybe that server is picky about user-agents? …if the RSS validator can fetch it, but my curl, and the plugin cannot . . .
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2022, 3:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trouble-with-a-rss-feed/226717/4 "2022-05-11T15:59:43Z")
Looks like `https://www.hinz.org.nz/resource/rss/news.rss` replies to `GET` requests with a `301` to `https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.hinz.org.nz/resource/rss/news.rss` but to `HEAD` requests with a `403`.
:facepalm:
You can configure the plugin to download the feed from `https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.hinz.org.nz/resource/rss/news.rss` directly to avoid their mess.
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### Author:  [@nathank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nathank)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2022, 10:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trouble-with-a-rss-feed/226717/5 "2022-05-11T22:46:45Z")
> [@Falco](#):
>
> You can configure the plugin to download the feed from `https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.hinz.org.nz/resource/rss/news.rss` directly to avoid their mess.
It works perfectly!
Thank you.
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### Author:  [@nathank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nathank)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2022, 11:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trouble-with-a-rss-feed/226717/6 "2022-05-25T23:46:08Z")
I’ve got a couple of ongoing problems with this, and would love a bit more help.
### Problem 1: The expand post content button doesn’t work
I get this in the console:
> 
### Problem 2: limited ability to customise the resulting post
The truncated post brings in just the first ``. Unfortunately I need the second one (the first is junk).
While I can target some ugly HTML passed through from the feed and suppress it with CSS, as well as customise the “This is a companion discussion topic…” text, I’m stuck with the unfortunate inline styling that is passed through. And I miss the highly valuable 2nd paragraph.
Is there a way to get rid of all the HTML elements / styles in there and just bring in the raw text? Or better yet, a selection of the raw text (in my case the 2nd `
` only)?
The second `
` element of each, including
Is this achievable / configurable? I couldn’t work out [how to use CSS selectors to achieve this](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-configure-the-allowed-embed-selectors-setting/134481) with my feed.
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### Author:  [@nathank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nathank)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2022, 11:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trouble-with-a-rss-feed/226717/7 "2022-06-24T23:46:50Z")
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