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Backdrop CMS HTML->XML RSS Proxy Module

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While implementing the Aggregator module recently in Backdrop CMS, I came across the situation where CloudFlare Hosting blocked the incoming RSS query, thinking it was a bot or a spider. The Aggregator module works great -it's being actively blocked by CloudFlare to prevent "bots", which I guess in this case is a false positive.

Cloudflare blocks RSS inquiries
https://openrss.org/blog/using-cloudflare-on-your-website-could-be-blocking-rss-users#:~:text=The%20only%20way%20to%20resolve,custom%20rule%20to%20unblock%20it.

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I would like to know if this solution can basically be used as an HTML -> RSS proxy, by re-constructing the XML that RSS relies on via a web browser style inquiry and consequent construction of an RSS feed from parsing the HTML document.

Yes, I know this is not the preferred way, but how else can you get to the content when RSS is being blocked?

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I could write something in Python with BeautifuSoup to build a website scraper which then exposes an RSS feed.
I am hoping to avoid having to do that.

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