NIST News

active ●Ingestion health: delivering Executive · Tier 2 · RSS feed · Department of Commerce

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What this source is

The National Institute of Standards and Technology, within Commerce, develops measurement science and technical standards. Its news index carries announcements on standards publications, research results, and technology programs, typically several items per week.

Identity and registry record

Registry id

nist-news

Agency / parent organization

Department of Commerce

Branch

executive

Type

RSS feed

Status

active

Tier

2

URL (feed)

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/rss.xml (opens in a new tab)

URL (home)

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news (opens in a new tab)

Registered

2026-07-26

Registry notes

Probed 2026-07-26: no feed autodiscovered in the index HTML — but NIST's own feed documentation page (nist.gov/pao/nist-rss-feeds) lists news-events/news/rss.xml plus ~24 topic feeds and 4 blogs; autodiscovery alone under-finds. Re-probed 2026-07-28 at the documented URL: verified end-to-end — 40 items, short teaser descriptions (~134 chars), sample article page extracted cleanly. Content evaluation: article fetch is the substance (descriptions are teasers); ~24 topic feeds remain unregistered depth. Activated 2026-07-28.

How we ingest it

Channel

RSS feed

Method

Polls the documented news RSS feed via AgencyClient.

Poll cadence

about every 60 minutes while the collector runs

Request budget

the agency class: at most 1,500 requests per day shared across every agency web source, counted from the fetch log (failed requests count too)

Politeness

robots.txt is honored as observed — including each host's crawl-delay, exactly — and every request identifies itself as fapd/0.1 (Free Agentic Publication Digester; +https://fapd.info/bot.html; contact: hustleyourcity@gmail.com); a refusal is recorded, never evaded

Capture and hash

captured raw content is hashed (SHA-256) into the day's committed provenance manifest, hash-chained day to day (PROVENANCE.md)

Ingestion health

●Ingestion health: delivering 40 item(s) in the last 14 days; most recent 2026-07-28; 5 of 233 request(s) to www.nist.gov returned no content.

This label has held since 2026-08-03T18:46:01Z (UTC) and was last re-checked 2026-08-03T19:51:47Z (UTC).

Counts are of our own requests, retries included. A 4xx or 5xx is the server declining to return content — that may be load, maintenance, on-demand generation, or a limit the publisher sets, and we cannot tell which from outside. Nothing here is a measurement of the publisher.

Ingestion statistics

These figures describe this project's ingestion of this source — items we recorded and requests we made — and nothing else. They are not a measurement of the publisher.

Last 24 hours

Last 14 days

All time

Last 30 days, day by day