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From: sebastjanartic <45803536-sebastjanartic@users.noreply.replit.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2026 18:38:23 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Update news feed to correctly display articles from external
 sources

Modify the RSS feed fetching mechanism to include more comprehensive browser-like headers, resolving 503 errors from external sources like Google News.

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---
 server/routes.ts | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/server/routes.ts b/server/routes.ts
index 81e1662..b363915 100644
--- a/server/routes.ts
+++ b/server/routes.ts
@@ -389,7 +389,12 @@ export async function registerRoutes(
 
   async function fetchRssFeed(rssUrl: string): Promise<string> {
     const resp = await fetch(rssUrl, {
-      headers: { "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; FolxTV/1.0)" },
+      headers: {
+        "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
+        "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8",
+        "Accept-Language": "de-DE,de;q=0.9,en;q=0.5",
+        "Cache-Control": "no-cache",
+      },
       redirect: "follow",
     });
     if (!resp.ok) throw new Error(`RSS fetch failed: ${resp.status}`);