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Web Scraping & Research

Decode Google News RSS Links into Clean Article URLs

When you run it, it reads a Google News RSS feed and decodes each encoded link into the real article URL.

What it does

## INFO Disclaimer: You can add a cron trigger but... don't do too often: Google could block your ip. This workflow works until works: the decoding procedure is hardcoded and based on reverse engineering. Requests and responses are not documented by Google.

The steps

  1. When clicking ‘Test workflow’
  2. Limit
  3. Reading Google News RSS
  4. Decoded url
  5. Call decoding URL
  6. Prepare decoding variables
  7. Get encoded news URL
  8. Map needed keys
  9. Extract decoding keys
  10. Aggregate results in a single object

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