RSS Feed returns 403

Dear community,

I have an RSS Feed Trigger node set up where I am watching all of Airtable’s announcements:

https://community.airtable.com/idgpi83864/rss/board?board.id=announcements

I am self-hosting n8n on DigitalOcean and when trying to run the node it returns a 403 error.

The feed is not auth-protected, I can access it on the web, get it on make.com, AND even get it with the cloud-hosted n8n version.

I also tried the regular RSS node, but unfortunately with the same output. Weirdly I can get the content when making a regular HTTP call, so I assume it’s not a firewall issue with self-hosting.

Has anyone had a similar issue in the past or knows how to solve this bug? Thanks in advance! :slight_smile:
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Node type

n8n-nodes-base.rssFeedReadTrigger

Node version

1 (Latest)

n8n version

1.74.3 (Self Hosted)

Time

03/02/2025, 11:23:58

Stack trace

NodeOperationError: Status code 403 at PollContext.poll (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/n8n-nodes-base/dist/nodes/RssFeedRead/RssFeedReadTrigger.node.js:56:19) at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5) at WorkflowExecute.runNode (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/n8n-core/dist/WorkflowExecute.js:651:32) at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/n8n-core/dist/WorkflowExecute.js:872:51 at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/n8n-core/dist/WorkflowExecute.js:1206:20

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Hmm,

This runs just fine on my own self-hosted instance (see below). I wonder if your server is blacklisted for some reason - could you try the following from the commandline on your server?

curl https://community.airtable.com/idgpi83864/rss/board?board.id=announcements

Do you see the RSS feed, or the 403 error?

As I mentioned before, I am using DigitalOcean and somehow it shows me the regular RSS Feed, so I assume its a n8n issue

@bartv any idea on how to fix this?