CNET News feed broken

[sebastien-maillard]

Generating the feed for CNET News either returns an empty feed or generates an error, depending on the topic selected.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to the CNET News section on https://rss-bridge.org/bridge01/
2. Click on 'Generate feed'
3. The feed is empty

Alternate issue:

1. Select the topic 'Sci->Tech'
2. Click on 'Generate feed'
3. The following error message is displayed

Details
Type: Exception
Code: 400
Message: Invalid topic: topics/sci/tech
File: lib/utils.php
Line: 242
Trace
#0 index.php(61): RssBridge->main()
#1 lib/RssBridge.php(57): DisplayAction->execute()
#2 actions/DisplayAction.php(71): DisplayAction->createResponse()
#3 actions/DisplayAction.php(106): CNETBridge->collectData()
#4 bridges/CNETBridge.php(54): returnClientError()
#5 lib/utils.php(242)

Context
Query: action=display&bridge=CNETBridge&topic=topics-sci-tech&format=Html
Version: 2023-09-24 (git.master.ef5bd83)
OS: Linux
PHP: 7.4.33 

Expected behavior
A feed should be displayed instead of an empty feed or an error.

[dvikan]

for the record there is also https://www.cnet.com/rss/news/

edit: sorry their feed is full of spam

@ORelio

[ORelio]

Thanks for opening this bug report.
It seems like the bridge is completely broken, and CNET's own RSS feed contains broken links.
It's been a while since I stopped using that bridge and I think nobody else was using it.
Rewrote a new version for you in pull request #3770.
Not sure I'll keep maintaining it, but at least it works for now.

[dvikan]

thanks @ORelio