rss2json with Medium feed doesn't always work. "probably not a valid RSS feed"

Question

I use rss2json.com for my Medium posts.

https://api.rss2json.com/v1/api.json?rss_url=https://medium.com/feed/@username works fine, but sometimes the response is

Feed could not be converted, probably not a valid RSS feed.

Answer 1

got same problem for my website. It used to work perfectly fine until 2 or 3 days, everything broke. I couldn't use the rss2 to fetch them anymore. I had to use a lambda on aws to get the feed there, parse it and send it as response. It seems aswell some property have changed, and the thumbnail/pubDate properties are gone as well. Im surprise not more people are reporting this issue.

The only thing to do is set up your own fetch/parsing from a server or a quick workaround that i found, but not spotless is to use this:

https://www.convertjson.com/cgi-bin/url-to-json.php?callback=loadDataAndRun&url=yourMediumFeedUrl

It's a UI online service that allow you to parse from an URL,not sure if they allow this usage, but i had to find a quick solution to fix it until i set up my own server to do this job.