{"id":6842,"date":"2017-04-24T14:04:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T14:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=6842"},"modified":"2017-04-24T14:04:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T14:04:23","slug":"rants-the-gizmodo-rss-feed-is-broken-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/04\/24\/rants-the-gizmodo-rss-feed-is-broken-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Rants: The Gizmodo RSS Feed is broken&#8230;again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3148,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/adamjackson\\\/34084748502&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251104032613\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/adamjackson\\\/34084748502&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-14 18:23:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-09 07:13:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-15 03:06:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-20 07:17:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-04 05:47:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-11 00:58:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-16 12:02:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-16 20:02:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 07:48:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 13:54:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 20:50:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 20:50:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:3149,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/adamjackson\\\/34084748542&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251104025140\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/adamjackson\\\/34084748542&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-14 18:23:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-09 07:13:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-15 03:06:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-20 07:17:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-04 05:47:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-11 00:58:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-16 12:02:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-02 06:12:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 07:48:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 13:54:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 20:50:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 20:50:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:3150,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/adamjackson\\\/33400537304&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251104025254\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/adamjackson\\\/33400537304&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-21 20:14:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-09 07:13:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-15 03:06:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-11 00:59:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 07:48:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 07:48:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>In 2010, <a href=\"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2010\/07\/30\/why-i-no-longer-read-gawker-blogs\/\">I posted to this blog<\/a> that I was going to stop reading Gizmodo because their RSS feed went to excerpts only. It\u2019s a way for publishers to monetize readers who use RSS feeds. Basically, you\u2019re given an excerpt of the article with a read-more link to see the full thing which takes you to the website and all of the adverts. I don\u2019t read websites that publish excerpts. If it\u2019s not full-text, I simply unsubscribe assuming that site doesn\u2019t provide a way for me to pay for a full-feed.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Lam, former editor of Gizmodo (now at NYTimes after they bought his company Wire Cutter), emailed me after that post was published with an updated RSS feed link (vip.xml) which was full-articles. I\u2019ve used it to this day.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the posts remained full-story w\/o any read-more links but all of the image links in the RSS feed became broken. Here\u2019s what I see:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View &#039;Gizmodo RSS Feed Issues&#039; on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/34084748502\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"Gizmodo RSS Feed Issues\"  width=\"640\"  height=\"526\"  border=\"0\"  class=\" pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4156\/34084748502_1573e3132d_z.jpg\" ><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View &#039;Gizmodo RSS Feed Issues&#039; on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/34084748542\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"Gizmodo RSS Feed Issues\"  width=\"640\"  height=\"493\"  border=\"0\"  class=\" pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2824\/34084748542_d249d21076_z.jpg\" ><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s the title, date-stamp and opening image then blank space. I scroll down to the text but no other images appear. This makes it challenging when an article contains a lot of images or a movie link to YouTube. The only pro of the situation is that I no longer have auto-playing GIFs which BTW, someone at the site works full time making GIFs day in and day out to accompany almost every article. I\u2019ve hated RSS GIFs for a while and none of my RSS Readers give me a way to disable them from playing and distracting me. If your\u2019e able to read something and absorb it while a 400&#215;400 pixel GIF plays on repeat in the same window, good for you!<\/p>\n<p>but I digress\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I thought maybe Gizmodo changed their feed again so I tried 3 total XML feeds that all work technically.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There\u2019s my current feed which has broken images and lots of white-space:\u00a0http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/vip.xml.<\/li>\n<li>There\u2019s the full-content RSS Feed:\u00a0http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/index.xml which now only publishes excerpts with read-more links<\/li>\n<li>and there\u2019s the partial content RSS feed (with ads)\u00a0http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/excerpts.xml and this behaves exactly like the full-content feed (partial content, read more link and no ads that I can see).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>FYI, here\u2019s a screenshot of the current feeds and how they look:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View &#039;Partial Text RSS Feed Gizmodo&#039; on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/33400537304\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"Partial Text RSS Feed Gizmodo\"  width=\"640\"  height=\"261\"  border=\"0\"  class=\" pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2895\/33400537304_30c3e80015_z.jpg\" ><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If anyone knows how I can get full-text RSS back for Gizmodo, that would be great. For now, I\u2019m removing the feed once again. To be honest, their content was most certainly on the decline since Gawker was shuttered. A lot of celebrity and political content and much less about technology these days which is the only news I consume.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2010, I posted to this blog that I was going to stop reading Gizmodo because their RSS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-04-24T14:04:34Z","apple_news_api_id":"c0bceec7-ab12-40f0-8c45-357a0a8b7548","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-04-24T14:04:38Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AwLzux6sSQPCMRTV6Cot1SA","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rants","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1Mm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":913,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2010\/07\/30\/why-i-no-longer-read-gawker-blogs\/","url_meta":{"origin":6842,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 Why I No Longer Read Gawker Blogs [Updated]","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"July 30, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Before you read this post, please note the comment below from Brian Lam who is the Editorial Director for Gizmodo. 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