RSS Feed: Difference between revisions

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RSS Feeds are way of publishing lists on the web, such as the latest posts to a blog, or audio files of a podcast. RSS originally meant RDF Site Summary, and was popularized by Dave Winer and the blogging communtiy as Really Simple Syndication, is now said to stand for Rich Site Summary. RSS is designed to make it easy for software, like a "pod catcher" or a feed reader to automatically collect and download information from websites that a user has "subscribed" to. Feeds can be useful to write scripts that use public websites as services to request, for instance, the latest images added to Flickr with a given tag, or to search a set of news sites for their last headlines.

Some examples of public feeds

Flickr json api key? "woman" "man"
BBC News "education & family" "business"
Internet Archive
YouTube
Vimeo ("simple api") ... is a search feed advanced only?
Open Clip Art "woman" "man"
4chan
A custom Tumblr feed creator (tumblr itself doesn't offer rss feeds)
uncovering a Facebook feed
getting at a Twitter rss feed

Detecting feeds

<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="&quot;Special:RecentChanges&quot; Atom feed" href="/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&amp;feed=atom" />

Examples

Die Zeit Category:RSS

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 * uncovering a [http://ahrengot.com/tutorials/facebook-rss-feed/ Facebook] feed
 * getting at a [http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2011/06/23/how-to-find-the-rss-feed-for-any-twitter-user/ Twitter] rss feed
+Detecting feeds
+<source lang="html4strict">
+<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="&quot;Special:RecentChanges&quot; Atom feed" href="/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&amp;feed=atom" />
+</source>
 == Examples ==
 [[Die Zeit]]
 [[:Category:RSS]]