@pluralistic Mention of the #BBC becoming more closed, rather than more open, reminded me of the old iPlayer rss/atom feeds, which I worked on. They were switched off in about 2014. A FOI request at the time revealed that they were being accessed millions of times each day.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/7dadf7de-ab46-315d-a2a7-a4db7e1143a7