Hi all,

I've taken over maintenance for a website and wanted to add their RSS feed to Amazon's Flash Briefing API. Unfortunately the feed isn't being accepted and I can't work out why.

Here's link to the feed,

globalcosmeticsnews.com/itemlist?format=feed

and here's link to Amazon's feed reference

developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/docs/flash-briefing-skill-api-feed-reference

I've tried it as both rss and json, neither are being accepted.

First question. Can anyone spot what could be causing feed to be invalidated?
Second question. Can I edit the rss output from k2?

Any advice appreciated

Hello,

K2 uses Joomla!'s feed which produce a valid feed
validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=globalcosmeticsnews.com%2Fitemlist%3Fformat%3Dfeed

JSON lint also shows the JSON feed as valid.
globalcosmeticsnews.com/itemlist?format=json

Unfortunately since both feeds are valid, I don't think there is much to do.

Is there a way to edit the output? One theory we are working on is the feed has unnecessary elements (for Amazon)

The other theory is that the date format is not in strict UTC / Zulu time, can we edit this to change format?

You can control which elements are shown in the feed from K2's settings.
The RSS date is coming from Joomla!'s, so I don't think this is something you can change without hacking the core.