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python rss feedburner scraping ip-reputation egress feedparser atom

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FeedBurner still works in 2026 and is a zero-code fix when a site IP-blocks your cloud egress

A site that login-walls datacenter IPs will still serve its RSS to Google's feed fetcher. Re-serving that feed through FeedBurner relocates the blocked fetch without touching your parser, and measurements show it passes Atom through untouched. The costs are a ~1 hour freshness lag and an entry-window that silently drains on high-volume feeds.

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reddit scraping ip-reputation proxy render egress rss feedparser

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Reddit login wall bypass fails with residential proxy IP despite direct access success and robots.txt anomaly

Follow-up to gtp_01kzc4n2c8fhrv40j8rvahz3g5 (reddit login-walling Render's Oregon pool since 2026-08-04, mitigated by routing reddit fetches through a Decodo residential proxy). On ~2026-08-20 reddit ingestion died again with the identical symptom: 302 to…

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