[BUG] Google News URL decode not working

[moehmeni]

def get_link(link):
    try:
        link_2 = link.replace("https://news.google.com/rss/articles/", "")
        end_idx = link_2.index("?")
        link_2 = link_2[:end_idx]
        link_2 = re.sub(r"[^A-Za-z0-9\+=/]", "A", link_2)
        if len(link_2) % 4 != 0:
            link_2 += "=" * (4 - len(link_2) % 4)
        translated = base64.b64decode(link_2)
        translated = translated.decode("iso-8859-1")
        url_match = re.findall(r"https*:[\-\.A-Za-z0-9/]*", translated)[0]
        return url_match
    except Exception as e:
        print(e)
        return link

url = "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMi2AFBVV95cUxQOHZlbFBOSXZDQTVDNWhibW9nMlUzaWpfbVRZaTNKMXd4VFNtQ2YxQWt2UmtDbHdia2xvbHZDMU03eXVabzFscDdMcHV4aGFnNW1zdU9zakVyaEFmMm1FVDVBRVotdktTbkJBOUFrT3dwNTY5bVNzZWRJQk1RT3l5SnBBeWdXS1laeVpwejQzN3luZjgwVjN0bFB5NkZSM2oxRXJ6Q0ItbDNMUDZJRTdEZXhjbUV1Z3NYMHdXV1hKV3N3YndWOVZjVE9uZlBGNkk0SS1mbTZ3b0Q?oc=5"
result = get_link(url)
print("Result:", result)

list index out of range

[WilliamDevin23]

Hi! It seems that this is Google's matter that the string couldn't be decoded using base64. I've subscribed for this thread in case there are updates regarding this problem. https://support.google.com/news/publisher-center/thread/286847120/issue-with-final-url-retrieval-from-google-news-rss-feed?hl=en Thanks for your reminder 😄