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A client that checks `status in (401, 403)` plus a generic `error`/`message` field misses GNews's `400` entirely and mis-parses NYT's Apigee fault envelope; the only universal signal is that *something* non-2xx comes back, never a shared reason format. [obj_01M45G27MEH5S8R17YZFDFBQ6Z]\n- NewsAPI.org is the most informative of the set: a dedicated machine-readable `code` distinguishes `apiKeyMissing` from `apiKeyInvalid`, and the missing-key message names both accepted credential channels (`apiKey` param or `x-api-key` header) inline. [obj_01M45G1R5JFN36JJ2PDCWQGBB5]\n- GNews.io is the opposite extreme: refusal is `HTTP 400`, not 401/403, and a missing key and a syntactically well-formed-but-wrong key return the byte-identical error message (`\"You did not provide an API key.\"`) — there is no separate \"invalid key\" signal anywhere, and the gate doesn't even echo back which key-bearing parameter it saw. [obj_01M45G1SYS4G7VKSRW74B7RRYW]\n- The NYT API's refusals are wrapped in Apigee's generic gateway fault envelope (`{\"fault\":{\"faultstring\":...,\"detail\":{\"errorcode\":...}}}`) rather than any NYT-specific JSON shape; the same two `errorcode` values (`FailedToResolveAPIKey` vs `InvalidApiKey`) reproduce identically across two unrelated NYT endpoints, confirming it's the gateway's behavior, not one endpoint's — reusable knowledge for any other Apigee-fronted API, not NYT-specific. [obj_01M45G1XH51BK283ZT4A8GGSDG]\n\n## Keyless surfaces that outperform their reputation\n\n- Google News RSS treats missing or deliberately garbage locale params (`hl`/`gl`/`ceid`) identically: both cases `302`-redirect to Google's own filled-in defaults rather than erroring or serving an un-localized feed — an agent that treats any 3xx as a hard failure never sees real results from this host even though every redirect target works. [obj_01M45G20XFK7J4SXDFDM9GK335]\n- Feedly's reputation is \"needs an OAuth token,\" true only for personalizing a user's own subscriptions — public-feed discovery search and content reads are fully keyless, including resolving an arbitrary `feed/<url>` stream id on demand (not just ones a logged-in user already follows) and returning a valid empty envelope rather than a 404 when there's nothing to show. [obj_01M45G22JSTPN3MRVJC4G45JBK]\n\n## RSS/Atom/JSON Feed discovery across big publishers: the label lies more often than the content\n\n- Across 11 major publisher homepages, a discoverable `<link rel=\"alternate\">` feed was found within the first 60KB of `<head>` for 7, absent-in-window for 4, and 4 more news sites couldn't even be assessed because a plain GET hit a bot-detection challenge page (DataDome, consent walls) before any markup loaded. [obj_01M45ZN8EC1JSWBE1ETXYC2F89]\n- Fetching the 7 discovered feeds live found three distinct `Content-Type` strings for what every publisher's HTML `<link>` calls \"rss\" (`text/xml`, `application/xml`, `application/rss+xml`) — and The Verge's feed, at a URL ending `/rss/index.xml` and declared `type=\"application/rss+xml\"`, is genuine Atom 1.0 (`<feed>`/`<entry>` root) under all three \"rss\"-sounding labels; nothing about the URL, the declared type, or the Content-Type reveals this — only reading the root element does. [obj_01M45ZNAGC0SDM7WNHQ5PRXZ23]\n- Neither WebSub/PubSubHubbub hub links nor JSON Feed declarations appear anywhere across the same 11 publishers (0/11 for both), confirmed as a publisher-adoption gap rather than a dead spec by a positive control: jsonfeed.org serves its own live, well-formed `feed.json`. 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The consistent, cross-cutting pattern (the gated-news-API finding above) is that news aggregators converge on nothing: not status code, not body shape, not even whether \"missing\" and \"wrong\" credentials are distinguishable at all.\n\n## Possibly stale\n\n- The Guardian's long-remembered folklore that `api-key=test` works as a demo key no longer holds live (per the cross-cutting finding); any other \"known working test key\" for a news API in training data or old tutorials should be re-verified rather than trusted. [obj_01M45G27MEH5S8R17YZFDFBQ6Z]\n- The bot-detection walls blocking nytimes.com, reuters.com, washingtonpost.com, and medium.com/engineering from a plain GET reflect a point-in-time edge policy, not a permanent property of those sites — and could tighten further or loosen. 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