RSS

Feed Autodiscovery

Feed autodiscovery is the HTML convention by which a web page advertises the location of its RSS, Atom, or JSON Feed using a element in the document head. Feed readers, browsers, and crawlers look for this element to discover feeds from a homepage URL alone, without requiring the user to know the exact feed path. The same pattern is used with application/atom+xml and application/feed+json types.

Feed Autodiscovery is one of 6 APIs that RSS publishes on the APIs.io network.

Tagged areas include Autodiscovery, HTML, Syndication, and Discovery. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and sample payloads.

GitHub

Documentation

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Documentation
https://www.rssboard.org/rss-autodiscovery

Examples

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Example
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rss/refs/heads/main/examples/feed-autodiscovery-example.json

API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: rss:feed-autodiscovery
name: Feed Autodiscovery
description: Feed autodiscovery is the HTML convention by which a web page advertises the location of
  its RSS, Atom, or JSON Feed using a <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="..."> element
  in the document head. Feed readers, browsers, and crawlers look for this element to discover feeds from
  a homepage URL alone, without requiring the user to know the exact feed path. The same pattern is used
  with application/atom+xml and application/feed+json types.
humanURL: https://www.rssboard.org/rss-autodiscovery
tags:
- Autodiscovery
- HTML
- Syndication
- Discovery
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.rssboard.org/rss-autodiscovery
- type: Example
  url: examples/feed-autodiscovery-example.json