Some time ago, the BBC redesigned their news site and, for some unfathomable reason, removed most of the RSS feeds for their reporters’ blogs. Being a fan of Brian Taylor, I grumbled at this for a bit and eventually wrote a little scraping script on my Raspberry Pi that polls the appropriate page and turns it into an RSS feed that I could consume in my preferred reader. Later, the (excellent) NHS Behind the Headlines news site did the same. Upon enquiry, they offered a private API that would let me recreate an RSS feed, and, again, I wrote a little script to manipulate this into the shape I required. However, until now, I’ve kept these on my private web server, but always meant to move them to somewhere more public so that others could use them if they wanted to. So without further ado:
- Brian Taylor (BBC Scotland political correspondent)
- Douglas Fraser (BBC Scotland business correspondent)
- Jonathan Amos (BBC science and space correspondent)
- NHS Behind the Headlines
Feel free to use any of these with your own reader.
(Usual disclaimer: I’m not affiliated with either the BBC or NHS, and these feeds could go away at any time if any corporate lawyers start getting angry). Enjoy!
