[GreenKeys] AP "Top Stories" gone?

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On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 05:41:24PM -0600, Jordan Spencer Cunningham wrote:
> I haven't yet used Heavy Metal and can't test these feeds in it at the
> moment, but I was able to dig up a list of Associated Press feeds in Atom
> format that still seem to function, assuming Heavy Metal can parse
> Atom-formatted feeds: https://webapps.stackexchange.com/a/116622
> 
> It seems AP doesn't advertise these feeds as I couldn't find any official
> mention of them.
> 
> --Jordan

Those work fine for me with rsstail at least. I don't use heavymetal as I use
my own replacement for it but it just calls rsstail and does a bunch of post
processing on it. Thanks for these links and I hope they stick around. 

eric

> 
> On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 4:28 PM, Duncan Brown <duncanancy at earthlink.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > For the past 5-10 years, the AWA Museum has been entertaining our visitors
> > by using the HeavyMetal v2.5 program to print out the Associated Press' Top
> > Stories on a M15.  That service seems to have stopped in the past week or
> > so. Have others noticed this?
> >
> > I realize that the program is very dependent on the AP's "Top Stories" URL
> > and if they change anything, you loose access.
> >
> > Bill Buzbee's v2.5 README.txt file (31 Jul 08) explains the problem & how
> > to find new URLs, but that doesn't seem to work anymore.
> >
> > Does anyone know of a URL that will work for news? Something that can be
> > put in the "Custom" Menu?  Or will it need processing by the program and
> > thus needed to be changed in the Perl script and recompiled?
> >
> > AP Top Stories is now at https://apnews.com.  Is there a better way to
> > get this page as a text file without all the problems we have had with
> > Bill's method? (I used Fortran in college, but I'm more of a hardware type.)
> >
> > I am still using Heavy Metal 2.5 because I could never get V3.0 to work
> > and v2.5 was still working OK for me.  Is V3.0 any better for changing URLs
> > or being updated for these changes?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Duncan Brown, K2OEQ
> > USASA  31J30
> >
> > Antique Wireless Association Museum Asst. Curator, Commercial Equipment
> > (also Chief TTY operator & repairman)
> > http://www.antiquewireless.org/
> >
> >
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