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📣 pkdpic

Simplest way to make an RSS feed?


Wondering if there's a way to make an RSS feed as a raw markdown endpoint or something that I could write an update script for myself and just run as a github page maybe.

RSS seems like the answer to a lot of my silly problems but I just want to keep it as simple as possible.

Obviously I don't know much about it yet but excited to learn more.

  👤 altneu Accepted Answer ✓
RSS is a simple format. https://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_rss.asp

There are numerous ways to create an RSS feed, depends what language you like. I used PHP mainly to format the output, loop through a DB of entries or text files even. Very easy to do.

👤 theandrewbailey
RSS is XML-based. You will need to convert your data into it first before serving it. I've built some RSS feeds, and it's not hard. In fact, I use RSS as an important part of my blog's backup and restore system.