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I am deploying a RSS Feed reader from Drishti IAS site which provides with local important news. As I am using Requests to make HTTPS calls, it throws up Error 403 due to Proxy Error.

Can you please white list this site: 'https://www.drishtiias.com/'

The RSS Feed URL is: 'https://www.drishtiias.com/rss.rss'

We can whitelist a site if it is an official public API; normally we ask for the API documentation, though I appreciate that that is a rather difficult thing with RSS feeds specifically. Is there a page on www.drishtiias.com where they say that the RSS feed is an officially supported one?

I don't think there is any declaration by them supporting the RSS feed.

But if it is available on their site, I think there will not be any problem by fetching some data for personal use.

I'll appreciate if you can help here, otherwise I understand your side.

Is there a link to it on the site, perhaps? "Follow us via RSS here" or something like that?

[edit] oops, sorry, I hadn't read your post properly. Is there no link to it at all on their site?

Best I can see is the button which hyperlinks to: https://www.drishtiias.com/rss.rss

You can visit this URL https://www.drishtiias.com/current-affairs-news-analysis-editorials and look at extreme top right, the RSS button is there. If that's what you want, otherwise you can close this query.

Also, I wanted to know if you can white-list https://www.hindustantimes.com . It has a Follow Us RSS Button at the bottom right of the page.

Ok. I have added those to the whitelist.

Thanks for your help, Glenn. Much appreciated. :)