BBC NEWS RSS... WITH THE SPORT?
2025-02-03
There’s now a much, much better version of this. Go use that instead:
bbc-feeds.danq.dev.
Earlier today, somebody called Allan commented on the latest in my series of
several blog posts about how I mutilate manipulate the RSS feeds of BBC News
to work around their (many, and increasingly so) various shortcomings,
specifically:
* Their inclusion of non-news content such as plugs for iPlayer and their apps,
* Their repeating of identical news stories with marginally-different GUIDs,
and
* All of the sports news, which I don't care about one jot.
Well, it turns out that some people want #3: the sport. But still don't want
the other two.
(IMG) FreshRSS screenshot with many unread items, but focussing on a feed called "BBC News (with sport)" and showing a story titled: 'How England Golf's yellow cards are tackling blight of slow play'
I shan't be subscribing to this RSS feed, and I can't promise I'll fix it if
it gets broken. But if "without the crap, but with the sports" is the way you
like your BBC News RSS feed, I've got you covered:
* [RSS] BBC News... without the crap... and without the sports (the one I use)
| source code to generate this feed
* [RSS] BBC News... without the crap... but with the sports (the new feed) |
source code to generate this feed
So there you go, Allan, and anybody in a similar position. I hope that fulfils
your need for sports news... without the crap.
LINKS
(HTM) Bbc-feeds.danq.dev
(DIR) A comment from Allan
(DIR) My latest blog post about decrappifying BBC News' RSS feeds
(HTM) BBC News
(HTM) [RSS] BBC News... without the crap... and without the sports (the one I use)
(HTM) Source for the the "without sports" generator
(HTM) [RSS] BBC News... without the crap... but with the sports (the new feed)
(HTM) Source for the the "with sports" generator