Earlier today, somebody called Allan commented on the latest in my series of several blog posts about how I
mutilate manipulate the RSS feeds of BBC News to work around their (many, and increasingly so) various shortcomings, specifically:
- Their inclusion of non-news content such as plugs for iPlayer and their apps,
- Their repeating of identical news stories with marginally-different GUIDs, and
- All of the sports news, which I don’t care about one jot.
Well, it turns out that some people want #3: the sport. But still don’t want the other two.
I shan’t be subscribing to this RSS feed, and I can’t promise I’ll fix it if it gets broken. But if “without the crap, but with the sports” is the way you like your BBC News RSS feed, I’ve got you covered:
- [RSS] BBC News… without the crap… and without the sports (the one I use) | source code to generate this feed
- [RSS] BBC News… without the crap… but with the sports (the new feed) | source code to generate this feed
So there you go, Allan, and anybody in a similar position. I hope that fulfils your need for sports news… without the crap.