404 on Associated Press bridge calls

[gaieges]

Describe the bug
It seems as though as of about 24 hours ago (2025-01-08), the RSS bridge feed for all of the Associated Press topics stopped working. I presume due to a change upstream as I noticed it was occurring on multiple bridge instances.

To Reproduce
Go to any of the rss-bridge instances and look at the following url:

https://rss-bridge.org/bridge01/?action=display&bridge=AssociatedPressNewsBridge&context=Standard+Topics&topic=apf-topnews&format=Mrss

Expected behavior
Expected to get a RSS feed in return

Actual Behavior

404 Page Not Found
RSS-Bridge tried to fetch a page on a website. But it doesn't exists.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/404

Details
Type: HttpException
Code: 404
Message: https://afs-prod.appspot.com/api/v2/feed/tag?tags=apf-topnews resulted in 404 Not Found
File: lib/http.php
Line: 36
Trace
#0 index.php(68): RssBridge->main()
#1 lib/RssBridge.php(39): RssBridge->{closure}()
#2 lib/RssBridge.php(37): CacheMiddleware->__invoke()
#3 middlewares/CacheMiddleware.php(44): RssBridge->{closure}()
#4 lib/RssBridge.php(37): ExceptionMiddleware->__invoke()
#5 middlewares/ExceptionMiddleware.php(17): RssBridge->{closure}()
#6 lib/RssBridge.php(37): SecurityMiddleware->__invoke()
#7 middlewares/SecurityMiddleware.php(19): RssBridge->{closure}()
#8 lib/RssBridge.php(37): MaintenanceMiddleware->__invoke()
#9 middlewares/MaintenanceMiddleware.php(10): RssBridge->{closure}()
#10 lib/RssBridge.php(37): BasicAuthMiddleware->__invoke()
#11 middlewares/BasicAuthMiddleware.php(13): RssBridge->{closure}()
#12 lib/RssBridge.php(37): TokenAuthenticationMiddleware->__invoke()
#13 middlewares/TokenAuthenticationMiddleware.php(10): RssBridge->{closure}()
#14 lib/RssBridge.php(34): DisplayAction->__invoke()
#15 actions/DisplayAction.php(54): DisplayAction->createResponse()
#16 actions/DisplayAction.php(90): AssociatedPressNewsBridge->collectData()
#17 bridges/AssociatedPressNewsBridge.php(75): AssociatedPressNewsBridge->collectCardData()
#18 bridges/AssociatedPressNewsBridge.php(108): getContents()
#19 lib/contents.php(118): HttpException::fromResponse()
#20 lib/http.php(36)

Context
Query: action=display&bridge=AssociatedPressNewsBridge&context=Standard Topics&topic=apf-topnews&format=Html
Version: 2025-01-02 (git.master.cb65125)
OS: Linux
PHP: 7.4.33

Additional context
Add any other context about the problem here.

[dvikan]

@VerifiedJoseph

[sassanix]

Same issue here, I believe the URLs are all changed.

[philipdistefano]

+1, same issue.

[Latz]

I've looked at the problem a bit, and I'm afraid the “free” API has died for good. There's an official API, but of course you have to pay for it. I'm afraid there needs to be some scraping of the web page to keep this bridge alive.

[gaieges]

That's too bad, is that something RSS-bridge can do?

[sassanix]

The whole point of RSS Bridge is to bypass that.