Bluesky has launched RSS feeds

Re:Bluesky has launched RSS feeds by renegat0x0 on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @01:56AM (#39010256)

This is a little bit off topic, but Openrss page information about how to obtain RSS link is poor.

"To find the RSS Feed for a website, just navigate to the website and the RSS feed for it is usually located at the domain of the website followed by /rss.xml, /rss or /atom.xml".

Recently on HN there were infos that pages provide meta links to atom. This is cleaner solution than guessing.

There was also Firefox extension 'want my rss', etc etc.

This should be better explained on RSS site.

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Re:Bluesky has launched RSS feeds by vintagedave on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @02:45AM (#39010568)

Yes. It's common practice for them to be called rss.xml and atom.xml but they can be anything you want. I use a `link` tag on my site -- I am not an expert here, but it seems applicable[1], RSS etc readers find it, and `meta` is documented only for use for cases that elements like `link` cannot represent.[2] So I'm confident enough this is correct-ish enough to write in a comment on HN :)

    <link href="https://example.com/rss.xml" rel="alternate" title="RSS feed for example.com" type="application/rss+xml"/>

    <link href="https://example.com/atom.xml" rel="alternate" title="Atom feed for example.com" type="application/atom+xml"/>

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/li...

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/me...

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Re:Bluesky has launched RSS feeds by jraph on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @02:16AM (#39010362)

Indeed. WordPress runs a big part of the web and is probably more likely for blogs, which is what you are likely to want to follow with RSS, and it's located at /feed.

At this point, I just use CTRL+U and search "rss" and "atom", hoping to find a the corresponding <meta /> tag. It's a shame Firefox does not automatically display a feed icon anymore, it would be much better if I want to tell non technical people about RSS. Installing an extension is workable but it's also an additional step.

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Re:Bluesky has launched RSS feeds by jeroenhd on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @08:47AM (#39013211)

Back in the day, browsers would have native RSS support. Somewhere around the URL bar of the favourites bar you'd have a little RSS button that would take you to the RSS feed of your choice, as configured by the <link> tags in the HTML.

Most browsers have removed RSS, so now you need to either read the HTML (which sucks even if you're familiar with it) or just guess. If you want to instruct the general audience on how to get RSS feeds these days, and you don't want to link to browser extensions (because only a few mobile browsers support them), then "just add /atom.xml" seems like the most foolproof solution to me.

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Re:Bluesky has launched RSS feeds by coldpie on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @09:27AM (#39013571)

The RSS reader I use (Feedly) will do this for you automatically. Just paste in the normal web URL and it'll go search for the relevant <link> tag, just like your browser used to do.

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Re:Bluesky has launched RSS feeds by aendruk on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @10:51AM (#39014688)

I appreciate that someone created this page which is handy when introducing people to web feeds:

https://aboutfeeds.com/

It too could use a mention of autodiscovery though.

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