RSS (Rich Site Summary); Really Simple Syndication Way to keep Updated

Renzil D’cruz

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Rich Site Summary • What is RSS?

RSS originally RDF Site Summary, is a format for delivering regularly changing web

content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their

content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.

• How is RSS done? Benefits and Reasons for using RSS

– An RSS document called "feed", "web feed", or "channel“ includes full or summarized text, and metadata, like publishing date and author's name.

– Filename extension .rss, .xml

– Easily stay informed

– Save time no need to visit site individually

– Ensure your privacy no subscription for newsletter

– Eg. Yahoo news, Google reader, Bloglines etc.

History • In 1995, when Ramanathan V. Guha and others in Apple Computer's

Advanced Technology Group developed the Meta Content Framework.

• March 1999, first version of RSS was created by Dan Libby and Ramanathan V. Guha at Netscape.( RSS 0.9)

• In December 2000, RSS-DEV Working Group and Dave Winer released RSS 0.92 spark podcasting

• In September 2002, Winer released a major new version of the format, RSS 2.0

• In September 2004, Stephen Horlander created the now ubiquitous RSS icon for Mozilla Firefox browser.

• In December 2005, the Microsoft Internet Explorer

• In February 2006, Opera Software

Format <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<rss version="2.0">

<channel><title>rss title</title>

<description>this is an rss eed</description>

<link>http://www.renzil.de/blog</link>

<lastbuilddate>mon, 16 dec 2014 00:01:00 +0000 </lastbuilddate>

<pubdate>mon, 16 dec 2014 16:20:00 +0000 </pubdate>

<ttl>1800</ttl>

<item><guid>unique string per item</guid></item>

</channel>

</rss>

How RSS works?

How to grab the RSS feeds?

• http://feedburner.google.com

• Amphetadesk (Windows, Linux, Mac)

• FeedReader (Windows),

• NewsGator (Windows - integrates with Outlook).

RSS 2.0 Atom 1.0

author author*

category category

channel feed

copyright rights

description subtitle

description* summary and/or content

generator generator

guid id*

image logo

item entry

lastBuildDate (in channel) updated*

link* link*

managingEditor author or contributor

pubDate published (subelement of entry)

title* title*

ttl -

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