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mattmcalister opened this issue Mar 18, 2022 · 3 comments · Fixed by brave/brave-core#12559
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Brave News will allow website URLs to be entered to the "Add Source" text input, and will search for feeds linked from the html (Desktop) #21768

mattmcalister opened this issue Mar 18, 2022 · 3 comments · Fixed by brave/brave-core#12559
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feature/brave-news formerly brave-today OS/Desktop priority/P2 A bad problem. We might uplift this to the next planned release. QA Pass-macOS QA/Yes release-notes/include
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1.39.x - Release

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mattmcalister commented Mar 18, 2022 •
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Brave News allows users to add RSS feeds by feed URL. Users should be able to add a domain which then triggers a search for any autodiscovery feed URLs at that domain.

Test plan is on brave/brave-core#12559
@mattmcalister mattmcalister added priority/P2 A bad problem. We might uplift this to the next planned release. OS/Android Fixes related to Android browser functionality OS/Desktop feature/brave-news formerly brave-today labels Mar 18, 2022
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@petemill petemill removed the OS/Android Fixes related to Android browser functionality label Apr 14, 2022
@petemill petemill changed the title Search domains for RSS feeds to add in Your Sources Search domains for RSS feeds to add in Your Sources (Desktop) Apr 14, 2022
@petemill petemill changed the title Search domains for RSS feeds to add in Your Sources (Desktop) Brave News will allow website URLs to be entered to the "Add Source" text input, and will search for feeds linked from the html (Desktop) Apr 14, 2022
@petemill petemill added this to the 1.39.x - Nightly milestone Apr 14, 2022
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Took a stab at this, but marking QA/Blocked until we've got a few more working multple-feed sources for autodiscovery (https://news.com example from test plan isn't working).

Asked in https://bravesoftware.slack.com/archives/CU56GUJ1H/p1651081419613779

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Took a stab at this, but marking QA/Blocked until we've got a few more working multple-feed sources for autodiscovery (https://news.com example from test plan isn't working).

Asked in https://bravesoftware.slack.com/archives/CU56GUJ1H/p1651081419613779

@timchilds gave me a couple multiple-feed sources to check out; no longer blocked:

https://www.fightmag.com.au/
https://talksport.com/sport/boxing/

@stephendonner stephendonner added the QA/In-Progress Indicates that QA is currently in progress for that particular issue label Apr 28, 2022
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stephendonner commented Apr 28, 2022 •
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Verification PASSED using

Brave 1.39.83 Chromium: 101.0.4951.41 (Official Build) beta (x86_64)
Revision 93c720db8323b3ec10d056025ab95c23a31997c9-refs/branch-heads/4951@{#904}
OS macOS Version 12.4 (Build 21F5063e)

Shared steps:

  1. install 1.39.83
  2. launch Brave
  3. open a new-tab page
  4. scroll down
  5. click on Show Brave News
  6. click on Customize
  7. enter feed URL
  8. click on Add source
  9. click on individual + icons for each feed

Confirmed for each:

  • auto-discovery worked
  • presenting multiple feeds worked
  • adding and removing feeds worked
  • scheme fix-up for URIs missing HTTPS worked: kinsta.com/feed -> https://kinsta.com/feed
  • we do NOT try to "fix" HTTP -> HTTPS URLs, which is good and expected 👍
URL auto-discovery results added in Brave News
fightmag.com Screen Shot 2022-04-27 at 5 41 23 PM Screen Shot 2022-04-27 at 5 42 18 PM Screen Shot 2022-04-27 at 5 42 58 PM
https://talksport.com/sport/motorsport Screen Shot 2022-04-27 at 5 52 12 PM Screen Shot 2022-04-27 at 5 52 19 PM Screen Shot 2022-04-27 at 5 52 59 PM
theisleofthanetnews.com Screen Shot 2022-04-27 at 5 48 32 PM Screen Shot 2022-04-27 at 5 48 37 PM Screen Shot 2022-04-27 at 5 49 50 PM
stephendonner.wordpress.com Screen Shot 2022-04-27 at 5 31 48 PM Screen Shot 2022-04-27 at 5 32 12 PM Screen Shot 2022-04-27 at 5 35 43 PM

NOTE: Filed: #22583 and #22593; more issues to come, as discovered, but the core feature is verified.

@stephendonner stephendonner added QA Pass-macOS and removed QA/In-Progress Indicates that QA is currently in progress for that particular issue labels Apr 28, 2022
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 - Added support for blob partitioning. ([#21746](brave/brave-browser#21746))
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