pelgranepress.com is on WordPress.com, whose CDN answers /feed/, /feed/atom/ and ?feed=rss2
with HTTP 403 and "Checking your browser...", a JavaScript challenge, whatever the User-Agent.
The checks that hit it failed for hours (8 in the day before this), and the publisher has
not changed anything.
The API at public-api.wordpress.com/wp/v2/sites/<host>/posts has the same posts with no check,
and each post's guid is the feed's own (https://host/?p=<id>), so the items read from it are
the ones already stored. fetch recognises the challenge by its /__challenge/ script, asks the
API instead, and parse reads WordPress's posts JSON as a feed. It sends no title or image for
the feed, which record_feed keeps as they were.
shortcut: the API's default ten posts, as many as WordPress puts in a feed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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