The RSS feed of https://nitter.poast.org, which had been working until recently, stopped being accessible about four days ago.
When I access the feed URL in a browser, it prompts to download a file named “rss.” Upon opening the downloaded file in a text editor, it turns out to be an XML file. So I suspect that BazQux is probably being blocked.
I’m not sure whether the issue lies with Nitter or BazQux, but do you have any suggestions for resolving this?
I see “HTTP 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable” in the logs.
I’m afraid there’s nothing I can do here, try contacting the site owner.
When I enter an RSS url directly into a browser, for example
https://nitter.poast.org/Publix/rss
it works fine. Could they be blocking your specific addresses?
When the URL even goes through this comment it gets a 503 in your preview.
I remember you had to interact directly with them a while ago.
When I enter the URL in a browser I see a splash screen with a big N and a few seconds later I see the XML. The problem is their RSS feed is not behaving correctly. FWIW the feed cannot be added to other aggregators either.
I tried a few aggregators , and with the Firefox add-on Feedbro, I was able to fetch the feed as expected. However, it only offers basic functionality and doesn’t support unread management.
Can you post the full list of requesting IP addresses?
The nitter.poast admin closed open access over xmas:
“they are failing because over christmas somebody attempted to scrape our nitter instance with 200 thousand unique IPs. so any non-authorized (i.e. in use by me, poast or somebody who is paying us) RSS requests are forced through a javascript check to prevent it”. He’s made a change and I see some feeds updating.
For anyone else using nitter.poast through Baxqux, consider donating to their paypal site at
It started working again a few hours ago. Just wanted to let you know.