Decode Google News URLs

[jstride]

Routes

/google/news/:category/:locale

Full routes

https://rsshub.app/google/news/Top stories/hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en

Related documentation

https://docs.rsshub.app/routes/new-media#news-2

What is expected?

It would be great if the encoded URLs could be returned as the final URLs. So the route would return https://www.foxnews.com/politics/harris-trump-hold-dueling-final-rallies-crucial-blue-wall-battleground instead of the https://news.google.com/read/xxxx URL below.

What is actually happening?

https://news.google.com/read/CBMipgFBVV95cUxQQVZoMVE4R1VHUG1hYzlFVHFKZ0gwVWRNVm5YT1lGZnJWTEVqdDVJcm44YUhXYS1zYTJmS1QyWnJxaDc2bkd3Q21pYUktbnN4SXM0eXpFNnQxamxMUkN0OE5pbGRiQ1VEX19KcjBNcXhtZXpJZ1p6NXVhRkR5c1A3UnZxZUdrM2xLZ1V1UUpZY3BBbTRHaHNoZ2Z6MXBCYTBBaHN6NVZ30gGrAUFVX3lxTE9nSk8yMHhocVJHT2YwOVZnZldscFlwNXhSbDVpTkUxVDV6Y1BUYy13VHdSOGJVVlNkZTdSTHhvZ1pZZGtZY0N3SE5xanZnd3kwMnBkVThhZ25EQUxzWGtCQ3J5ci1hUUZjQzZULXh5UTZwSGdENG1HWUFxVnNmQVVEajl2ZUMzME82cndtUlVNX1FYMmVwODB3Qk1QVFNCNjFKOUo0TjE2bEtXRQ?hl=en-AU&gl=AU&ceid=AU%3Aen is returned which requires javascript to manage the redirect which most RSS tools don't have.

Deployment information

RSSHub demo (https://rsshub.app)

Deployment information (for self-hosted)

No response

Additional info

https://github.com/SSujitX/google-news-url-decoder/blob/main/googlenewsdecoder/new_decoderv1.py shows how to decode the URL

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[pseudoyu]

Yes it can be decoded to target url, however the decoding process needs extra requests to google news api for each item and may easily reach rate limit.

And I fixed the title, content and author fields of this api so I think it's enough for RSS reader? You can try it.

[jstride]

Thanks - that fix works for the titles/etc. The decoding the URL can be done in a batch (rather than individual requests). I was thining of the use case of using your RSS reader offline where it downloads the article content.

[pseudoyu]

Thanks - that fix works for the titles/etc. The decoding the URL can be done in a batch (rather than individual requests). I was thining of the use case of using your RSS reader offline where it downloads the article content.

okay I'm working on it.