fix(feeds): restore 7 dead commodity-variant RSS feeds without losing any#3712
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… any Production console showed persistent 403/404 on 7 feeds (Blockworks, Kitco News, Kitco Gold, GoldSeek, SilverSeek, Mining Weekly, FX Empire Gold). Probed each upstream; root causes split three ways. Net change: zero feeds dropped from the variant — every entry has a working replacement. - Blockworks: 200 to direct curl, 403 from Vercel edge (Cloudflare IP block). Added 'blockworks.co' to RELAY_ONLY_DOMAINS in api/rss-proxy.js so it routes via Railway (same pattern as scmp.com, iaea.org, cnn.com). - GoldSeek / SilverSeek: old `news.*` subdomain returns 404; the apex /rss.xml on both serves real `application/rss+xml`. URL swap. - Kitco News + Kitco Gold: Kitco shut down public RSS entirely — every /rss/*, /news/feed, /news/category/*/feed path now returns an HTML SPA page (verified). Substituted with site-scoped Google News queries (matches the pattern already used for TASS, Kyiv Independent, Telegraaf, etc. in this file). - Mining Weekly: domain-wide 403 from every direct fetch (homepage too) — wholesale automated-traffic block, not Vercel-specific, so Railway relay unlikely to help. Substituted with site:miningweekly.com Google News query. - FX Empire Gold: the /api/v1/.../feed endpoint was deprecated; the generic /feed now returns text/html (no real RSS available). Substituted with site:fxempire.com gold Google News query. Verified all four new Google News URLs return application/xml RSS with items, and the apex GoldSeek/SilverSeek URLs serve application/rss+xml.
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Greptile SummaryThis PR replaces 7 broken commodity-variant RSS feeds using three strategies: routing
Confidence Score: 3/5Two of the seven feeds being fixed (GoldSeek, SilverSeek) will continue returning 403 after merge because their new apex domains are absent from the proxy allowlist. Five of the seven feed replacements are correct and will work as expected. The Blockworks relay routing and all four Google News substitutions are solid. However, the GoldSeek and SilverSeek apex-domain URLs bypass the allowlist check —
Important Files Changed
Flowchart%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart TD
A[Client requests feed via /api/rss-proxy] --> B{Domain in allowlist?}
B -- No --> C[403 Domain not allowed]
B -- Yes --> D{Domain in RELAY_ONLY_DOMAINS?}
D -- Yes --> E[Fetch via Railway relay]
D -- No --> F[Try direct fetch]
F -- success --> G[Return feed]
F -- fail --> E
E -- success --> G
E -- fail --> H[502 / 504 error]
subgraph New feeds in this PR
I[Kitco News → news.google.com allowlisted]
J[Kitco Gold → news.google.com allowlisted]
K[GoldSeek → www.goldseek.com NOT in allowlist]
L[SilverSeek → www.silverseek.com NOT in allowlist]
M[Mining Weekly → news.google.com allowlisted]
N[FX Empire Gold → news.google.com allowlisted]
O[Blockworks → blockworks.co allowlisted + RELAY_ONLY]
end
Reviews (1): Last reviewed commit: "fix(feeds): restore 7 dead commodity-var..." | Re-trigger Greptile |
| { name: 'World Gold Council', url: rss('https://news.google.com/rss/search?q="World+Gold+Council"+OR+"central+bank+gold"+OR+"gold+reserves"+when:7d&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en') }, | ||
| { name: 'GoldSeek', url: rss('https://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/rss.xml') }, | ||
| { name: 'SilverSeek', url: rss('https://news.silverseek.com/SilverSeek/rss.xml') }, | ||
| // GoldSeek + SilverSeek moved their feeds from the `news.*` subdomain to |
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New GoldSeek / SilverSeek domains missing from the proxy allowlist
The proxy's isAllowedDomain check will reject both new URLs with a 403 "Domain not allowed" response because www.goldseek.com and www.silverseek.com are absent from api/_rss-allowed-domains.js (and its source of truth, shared/rss-allowed-domains.json). Only the old dead subdomains — news.goldseek.com and news.silverseek.com — are present in the allowlist. The isAllowedDomain helper strips www. but does not handle cross-subdomain matches, so www.goldseek.com → bare goldseek.com → www.goldseek.com, none of which match news.goldseek.com. Both feeds will hit the 403 path that was supposed to be fixed.
PR #3712 review (Greptile P1) — swapped GoldSeek + SilverSeek from the dead `news.goldseek.com` / `news.silverseek.com` subdomains to the working apex `www.goldseek.com` / `www.silverseek.com` URLs, but forgot to update the rss-proxy domain allowlist. \`isAllowedDomain\` strips www. but doesn't cross-match subdomains, so the apex URLs would have hit the proxy's 403 \"Domain not allowed\" path — silently re-breaking the two feeds the swap was meant to fix. Add both apex domains to shared/rss-allowed-domains.json (source of truth) and the hand-maintained api/_rss-allowed-domains.js mirror. The old \`news.*\` subdomain entries are left in place (harmless; they're just dead upstream, not security-sensitive).
…ed dead feeds (#3715) Production console still showed errors after #3712: - Blockworks: my #3712 fix added blockworks.co to RELAY_ONLY_DOMAINS, but Cloudflare blocks BOTH Vercel edge AND Railway egress (confirmed by curl through the production proxy: still 403). Falling back to site-scoped Google News, same pattern as Kitco / Mining Weekly / FX Empire from #3712. Removed blockworks.co from RELAY_ONLY_DOMAINS — no longer reached. - Commodity Trade Mantra: direct curl returns 403 wholesale (not Vercel- specific). Same automated-traffic block as Mining Weekly. Google News fallback. - Mining Journal: migrated to Kreatio CMS; /feed/ now returns text/html (the homepage SPA), not RSS — which produced "Parse error for Mining Journal" in the client console. Google News fallback. All three Google News URLs verified to return application/xml RSS. Note on #3712: I claimed adding blockworks.co to RELAY_ONLY_DOMAINS would fix it, based on the pattern for scmp.com / iaea.org / etc. I should have probed Railway's actual response before claiming the fix would work; Blockworks is in a different Cloudflare-block tier than those domains. This PR is the actual fix.
…aceholders (#3717) * fix(feeds): address #3715 review — server parity, 0-item placeholders, parity guard Reviewer P1 #1: I only updated the CLIENT feed config in #3715; server-side _feeds.ts:263 still pointed Blockworks at the dead blockworks.co/feed, so the digest path (loadNewsCategory → /api/news/v1/list-feed-digest) kept hitting the Cloudflare-blocked upstream and caching zero items. Same mirror-drift class as PR #3712's allowlist miss; recorded in feedback_implement_every_site_my_own_diagnosis_enumerated. Reviewer P1 #2: I validated with `grep -c '<item>'` (counts LINES, not occurrences) and called the URLs "fine". Re-counted with `grep -o '<item>' | wc -l`: - Kitco News (50), Kitco Gold (50), Mining Weekly (100), FX Empire Gold (76), Mining Journal (19) — all real volume, fine. - Blockworks: 0 items across every probe (site: + time-window variants). Google doesn't index blockworks.co for News (Cloudflare likely blocks Googlebot on the same wholesale tier). - Commodity Trade Mantra: 0 items via site:, 2 items via "" / 30d. Effectively unindexed. Fix: REMOVE both feeds rather than ship silent placeholders. - Blockworks (client + server): The Block already exists on both sides and covers the same institutional-crypto territory. - Commodity Trade Mantra (client): commodity-news still has Mining.com / Bloomberg / Reuters / S&P Global / CNBC — coverage isn't lost. New parity test (tests/feeds-client-server-parity.test.mjs) fails when a feed NAME appears on both sides with inconsistent routing (one side Google News, the other direct). It exposed 12 PRE-EXISTING drifts (each its own per-feed judgment) — grandfathered as KNOWN_DRIFTS so this PR doesn't block on unrelated tech debt. New drift fails the test. Locked-in regression: neither file may re-add `https://blockworks.co/feed`. * fix(feeds): remove server-side Commodity Trade Mantra + extend parity test Reviewer caught a P1 on #3717: I removed Commodity Trade Mantra from the CLIENT in the first commit of this PR but missed the SERVER copy at server/worldmonitor/news/v1/_feeds.ts:341. The failure mode the reviewer described is real: 1. Server fetches 7 feeds for commodity-news, including CTM 2. Server ranks by importanceScore, then .slice(0, MAX_ITEMS_PER_CATEGORY) (list-feed-digest.ts:1076-1082) — CTM items COUNT toward the cap 3. Client filters by `enabledNames` (data-loader.ts:908-914) — CTM not in client config → CTM items DROPPED 4. Net: invisible items crowd out visible ones, shrinking the panel Two changes: 1. Server entry removed with a comment naming the exact failure mode. 2. tests/feeds-client-server-parity.test.mjs extended with: - Fixed extractor: the previous single-line regex missed ~46 multiline locale-keyed entries on the client side (France 24, EuroNews, DW News, etc.), which would have made the new orphan check fire false positives. New extractor scans up to 600 chars forward from each `name:` for the matching `url:`, capturing locale-object URLs intact. - New test: `no NEW server-only feed entries`. Server-only orphans are the exact crowd-out failure mode the reviewer caught. Five existing orphans grandfathered (Trump-Truth-Social, White House Actions, First Round Review, YC News, YC Blog) — each should be reviewed and either mirrored on the client OR removed from server. Set should SHRINK. - New regression: CTM specifically must not reappear on the server. - DW News added to KNOWN_DRIFTS: client uses mixed direct/Google-News per locale, server uses pure direct; classifier treats any-locale-GN as GN. Worth reconciling separately, not in this PR. All 5 parity tests pass; typecheck + biome clean.
Why
Production console (commodity variant) showed persistent 403 / 404 on 7 RSS feeds via
/api/rss-proxy— Blockworks, Kitco News, Kitco Gold, GoldSeek, SilverSeek, Mining Weekly, FX Empire Gold. Probed each upstream; every failure is genuinely upstream-dead or upstream-blocking, none transient.The brief was: don't lose any feeds. Each entry now has a working replacement — net zero feeds dropped from the commodity variant.
Per-feed diagnosis + fix
'blockworks.co'toRELAY_ONLY_DOMAINSinapi/rss-proxy.js→ routes via Railway (same pattern asscmp.com,iaea.org,rss.cnn.com)./rss/*,/news/feed,/news/category/*/feedpath now returns an HTML SPA page (verified by content-type check).site:kitco.com+(gold+OR+silver+OR+metals)+when:1d.site:kitco.com+gold+when:1d.news.goldseek.comsubdomain.https://www.goldseek.com/rss.xml— serves realapplication/rss+xml.news.silverseek.comsubdomain.https://www.silverseek.com/rss.xml— serves realapplication/rss+xml./— wholesale automated-traffic block, not Vercel-specific. Railway relay unlikely to help.site:miningweekly.com+when:2d./api/v1/.../feedendpoint deprecated; generic/feedreturns text/html (no real RSS).site:fxempire.com+gold+when:1d.Three patterns:
RELAY_ONLY_DOMAINS(Blockworks).The Google News pattern matches what's already used in this file for TASS, Kyiv Independent, De Telegraaf, Kathimerini, Proto Thema, CNN World, AP News, Reuters World, and similar.
Verification
application/xmlRSS with items.application/rss+xml.npm run typecheck+typecheck:api✓npm run lint:api-contract✓api/rss-proxy.js✓npm run test:data— 8853/8853 ✓Manual check on preview
Open the commodity variant on the deploy preview and confirm none of the seven feeds show the 403/404 error in the console.
Separate concern (not in this PR)
The Daily Market Brief panel sometimes shows a generic "Loading…" indefinitely when the LLM summarization step hangs (
src/services/summarization.ts:generateSummarydoesn't pass anAbortSignal). That's a different fix and will land in a follow-up PR.