How to Use NY Times Subscription with Default Newsfeed Module

[sdetweil]

@raspberrypi9 we do not provide a mechanism for authentication on rss feeds…

[raspberrypi9]

@sdetweil Any pointers on how I can add that functionality on my own? Thanks!

[sdetweil]

@raspberrypi9 no, no experience w that moduie

[sdetweil]

@raspberrypi9 AND there is no guarantee its the same across providers

[JohnGalt]

@raspberrypi9 – Would the content provider happen to have a separate RSS feed for subscribers?

[karsten13]

From the sample config the normal feed url is https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml (they maybe have more).

My first thought was to use https://username:password@rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml but the problem here is another one. The feed is free so you need no authentication for the feed but some articles of the feed that should be displayed with ARTICLE_MORE_DETAILS are protected. Because the article urls are extracted from the feed I have no idea how to implement this at the moment.

[JohnGalt]

@karsten13 – Yes, that’s what I figured.

The problem from the provider’s perspective would be how to both give access to legitimate subscribers while limiting access to others. The only solution that springs to mind would be to authenticate the user when they query the server, but for something like this where all the users’ computers might each be coming for content several times each day - it begins to be a lot of computing overhead.