Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format.
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Do people still use RSS feeds?
I've built a site where people can submit security vulnerabilities found on websites.
I've got some requests (not many though) by people to implement an RSS feed of confirmed and published cases.
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What are some good feeds/blogs/twitter accounts to follow if I want to learn more about web development?
Who are some of the big names out there (besides Jeff Atwood/@codinghorror, of course) that I should be following as a resource if I want to stay on top of what's new as well commentary on what ...
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Is RSS auto-discovery still a viable option in 2012?
I am preparing a website and noticed that although the source code contains RSS autodiscovery URL, i.e. something like
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="/rss.xml">
none ...
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Should I Include RSS Feed URLs in an XML Sitemap?
Simple question - Should I Include the RSS Feed URLs in my site's XML Sitemap?
I am NOT asking whether I should USE an RSS Feed AS an XML sitemap, but rather, should I include the URLs to the ...
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Content theft - Where can I go from here?
I am the webmaster of a very successful blog in a fairly small niche. Recently our success has started to bite us with people copying posts on the site without consent and trying to pass them off as ...
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How to track subscriptions to an RSS feed
I have RSS feeds on some of my sites and I'm wondering how I can track how many people are subscribing to them.
The obvious solution is to track the number of hits on the URL, but I don't feel like ...
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Migrating the source of a FeedBurner podcast feed from one WordPress to another
I'm using FeedBurner as the public-facing feed for the Ask Different Podcast. Recently Stack Exchange has set up a Blog Overflow blog for Ask Different, and I'd like to move the source of the ...
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How do I view ALL blog posts in an RSS feed?
I have a blog and its posts date back all the way to March of 2009. However, when I visit my feed url (it's feedburner), the oldest post that shows up on that page is one written in February of 2011. ...
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RSS vs Sitemap for SEO
What are the differences of the two and how can they help in SEO? I'm creating a custom-scripted CMS and I'm thinking if should I either add RSS/Sitemap/Both?
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How to Syndicate Websites Without RSS?
I have four websites that I am wanting to link to from one website. But the kicker here is that beyond just linking to the sites I was looking for a way to display updates from those sites on my site. ...
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Rss legal issues
I know it is illegal to post full articles of a website on yours beacuse of copyright.
Is it legal to post the rss feeds of a website on your website?
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Getting users to use RSS
I've got a gaming site that hosts After Action Reports (AARs). From my traffic logs, I know that these AARs are far and away the most popular part of the site with my members.
Members typically post ...
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How to obtain a page's GUID in Composite C1 CMS?
Question is pretty simple, I think.
How can I find out what the page GUID for a certain page in my Composite C1 website is?
I need it for RSS reading from a Blog within the CMS.
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Do you need permission to show an RSS feed?
Does anyone know if you need permission to show an RSS feed on your website? I want to show the BBC business RSS feed and I heard that I may need to get permission to show it. I did some Googling but ...
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how can I find out which websites are linking to mine?
How can I have a RSS of new sites that link to mine?
I would like to know which sites are linking to us.
Is there any way to do that?
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.htaccess Redirect 301 in Wordpress – From Post to Page
By default, Wordpress posts are added to RSS feed. For my website, I want to include Wordpress pages to RSS feed. I know that some plugins could help me. Instead, I try to use redirect 301 in ...
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RSS feed <link rel=“alternate”> on which pages?
I've got a site that includes a blog amongst other things. I'm adding the tag for autodiscovery of the RSS feed.
There's only one feed on the site. Should live on every page (i.e. I put it in the ...
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Feedburner - Multiple feeds in multiple languages
I run a website that available in Dutch and English. Each 'language version' has its own blog and related RSS feed. I want to publish these RSS feeds through Feedburner. Obviously I would like to have ...
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RSS aggregator with related headlines…like Google News
Does anybody know of a script that would allow me to aggregate RSS feeds (and possibly have users submit their own) while also identifying related/similar headlines much like Google News?
I don't ...
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Which feed does Magento's attribute “In Feed” refer to?
I have been researching Magento's RSS feeds and there is an attribute for new products called 'In Feed'. My understanding was that this determined whether or not the product was added to the RSS ...
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updated posts in my RSS feed
Should I put in my RSS feed posts that I've updated or I'll just update it but don't put it my RSS feed? (considering RSS feed contains latest 10 posts).
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How can I associate my main domain to a RSS?
This is an institutional site which uses Tumblr to keep the visitors updated. The Tumblr is linked via frames in the subdirectory /blog/ of the domain to track stats. My question is:
How can I allow ...
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How to update an RSS Feed?
Let's say we have a similar RSS feed like here. Where should I be inserting the new content? And, should all the articles be listed in an RSS feed?
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utility to pull in the entries of an rss feed with a certain date range
I'd like to include a section on my daily blog post that could capture/aggregate my activity from twitter, github, etc on that day. Ideally this information could be displayed in a visually ...
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How to find all feed directories where a particular site has submitted his feed
I am looking for a list of working sites which accepts feeds, then I struck with an idea that I can find those places by following other sites of my niche which would have already submitted their ...
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RSS Feeds - Are they Cached?
How can I (or is it possible) to remove some blog posts out of a feed such as Google Feedburner? I have removed some from my blog but obviously looks like they are cached somehow. I just don't want ...
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Is it legal to show RSS feeds on my website from another website
I want to display the feeds from multiple news website on my website and create a site which would be something like http://paper.li
So is it legal to display those feeds directly on my website? The ...
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RSS feed aggregator
There used to be things called planets that aggregate all RSS feeds on a given subject. How legit are these sites? Can they legally repost the RSS contents (as much or as little it is supplied by the ...
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Self hosted Netvibes alternative
I am looking for a self-hosted alternative to part of the Netvibes functionality. It should act as feed reader, show my mail inbox, a list of bookmarks and maybe the weather forecast.
I wish to move ...
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Google Apps and Google Reader - Third level domain
I'd like to point a third level domain (eg. reader.mydomain.com) to google reader just like mail.mydomain.com points to gmail. Is it possibile, and if yes, how would I do it?
Thanks in advance.
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Adding an RSS feed to a Facebook page
I want to add a client's blog feed to a Facebook page. Is there a way to do that without using a third party app?
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RSS feed : wrong encoding?
I just migrated my website to a brand new server, and now i'm having a weird issue.
Some characters on my RSS feed are not properly encoded, as you can see here : ...
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Do all web hosts allow rss feeds?
Simple question: Do all website hosts allow RSS feeds to be coded, such that if I have an application for my phone, and the application pulls information from my website, I could use any web host to ...
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What is considered the optimal placement of a link to an RSS feed for SEO?
When do I want a search engine's spider to run across my RSS feed link?
Before the heading (not saying header tag..)
During the heading
During the main content
During the footer
After the footer
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Which of these url for Feeds for the Sitemap should I use?
Does it matter which of these I add to my Sitemaps file?
http://example.com/?feed=rss
http://example.com/?feed=rss2
http://example.com/?feed=rdf
http://example.com/?feed=atom
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Is there a googlebot equivalent for RSS feeds?
I have a lot of feeds generated on my pages - and it seems to let them go to waste (Googlebot does not seem to see them). The RSS feeds display correctly in the pages when viewed through a browser, so ...
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How can you tell how much BANDWIDTH RSS Feeds are taking up, overall?
I am considering pulling out RSS FEEDS from the default Outlook Mailbox configuration pushed to our users by Exchange. My two biggest reasons for doing this is that (1) I firmly believe that the ...
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Show wordpress posts on linkedin company page
I have a customer with a wordpress blog that wants to add their posts to their LinkedIn company page.
Is it possible to add a wordpress feed like you can in user profiles?
I saw that there was a ...
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Why does Google Reader only update our site's RSS feed once every 4-5 days?
We have a website with a RSS feed. When I use Google Reader to subscribe to the feed, it is only updated once in a while - something like every 4-5 days. In Google Reader the latest 2 or 3 posts ...
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What are the disadvantages of an invalid RSS feed
I have recently started using feedvalidator.org to validate my RSS feeds. The RSS reader reads the feeds fine but the feed validator says they are not valid feeds. I tried other RSS feeds like
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Planet feed aggregator for django
We are looking for a way to integrate a feed aggregator (like a planet, which takes a set of rss/atom feeds and posts the latest N feed items) into a Django site. Ideally, the planet should integrate ...
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Specializing RSS content
May I please have some help in using an RSS feed.
Here is a link to an RSS feed: http://weather.uk.msn.com/RSS.aspx?wealocations=wc:NZXX0049&weadegreetype=C&culture=en-GB
This is the feed ...
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Selfoss says “no entries found”
I installed selfoss as instructed in the readme, set up the rss feeds, but I get "no entries found" when I open it.
Anyone got this problem?
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If I cache an RSS feeds' html, but not the images, will this appear to be image hot-linking?
I have a simple RSS news application built using Javascript, that pulls in feeds through Google's feed API. Im doing a proof of concept and caching the feed using localStorage though due to storage ...
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Best way to get RSS Email / RSS Subscribers
I use Feedburner right now to get RSS Subscribers, but I think there is too much friction with Feedburner, they require a captcha among other things.
What are some good email RSS subscription options ...
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Tool for RSS “Archive” in XML
Does anyone know of a web app or some such tool that simply checks an RSS feed and archives each news item and has the ability to export rss or generic xml (or even better, automatically saves it). ...
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Convert RSS feed in one line
I need to use an RSS Feed in a Digital Signage application (Xibo).
But to scroll the feed on right or left I need it to be presented on a single line or only the first line will be displayed.
I've ...
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How can I create a content widget generator? [closed]
Sites like Buzzfeed offer widgets (Javascript, PHP, WordPress, etc.) for syndicating their content on other sites. Does anyone have any ideas on how I could go about creating/implementing some kind of ...
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RSS Filter and Compile
Does anyone know of a good way to compile say 20 RSS feeds and generate top news stories out of it? The idea is that we want to have a section on our wordpress site that pulls in feeds from many ...
