NOAA News Releases

active ▲Ingestion health: degraded Executive · Tier 2 · RSS feed · Department of Commerce

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What this source is

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, within Commerce, runs the National Weather Service and ocean, climate, and fisheries programs. Its news-release index carries announcements on weather, climate data, fisheries rules, and research, typically several items per week.

Identity and registry record

Registry id

noaa-news

Agency / parent organization

Department of Commerce

Branch

executive

Type

RSS feed

Status

active

Tier

2

URL (feed)

https://www.noaa.gov/rss.xml (opens in a new tab)

URL (home)

https://www.noaa.gov/news-releases (opens in a new tab)

Registered

2026-07-26

Registry notes

Probed 2026-07-26: HTTP 403 (WAF) on the /news-releases index. Re-probed 2026-07-28: the documented main feed (noaa.gov/rss.xml, per NOAA's own RSS docs page — a path distinct from the blocked one) is open: HTTP 200, 10 items with rich ~6,700-char descriptions. Sample article page returned 403 — same WAF as the index — so this is feed-only ingestion (adapter rss-feed-only), honestly disclosed per item; the long descriptions carry the substance. Component feed libraries (oceanservice, climate.gov, nhc.noaa.gov) remain tier-3 candidates. Activated 2026-07-28.

How we ingest it

Channel

RSS feed

Method

Polls the documented main RSS feed via AgencyClient, feed metadata only (article pages 403 identified clients).

Adapter

rss-feed-only

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: degraded 73 of 219 request(s) to www.noaa.gov returned no content (33.3%, at or above the 10% mark).

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

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