RSS or RDF Site Summary or Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication are the same. RSS is a standard created to allow web page feed in order to clients to follow new posts and updates easily with RSS client. RSS standard is used to follow multiple sites with a single application where newly added contents or updates will be automatically listed with an RSS client application. The passing of the content is called web syndication.
RSS History
The work about web syndication is started in 1995 but these efforts couldn’s succseed. The RDF Site Summary which is the first version of the RSS is released by Netscape in March 1999. This is also versioned as RSS 0.91. With further development the RDF Site Summary is renamed as Risch Site Summary.
In December 2001 O’Reilly Media and Moreover produced the RSS 1.0 version and reintroduced support for RDF and XML namespaces. In September 2002, Winer released RSS 2.0.
In September 2004, the RSS icon to be used in Mozilla Firefox browsers. This icon later used by Microsoft , Opera as the icon for the RSS feeds.
RSS Versions
RSS standard or format is not changed much recently It is updated in the first years of the creation and current recent version of the RSS is 2.1.
RSS 0.90 is the first official version of the RSS which is created by Netscape. It was called as RDF Site Summary.
RSS 1.0 is an open format which is created by RSS-DEV Working Group and not fully compatible with 0.90 version.
RSS 1.1is also an open format where it provides updates to version 1.0 but it will not become popular because it is not endorsed by RSS-Dev Working Group.
RSS 2.0 provides multiple and confusing version numbers like 0.91, 0.92 or 2.0.1 but it provides simple updates over the version 1.0. Version 2.0.1 is the most popular version.
RSS Benefits and Advantages
Even RSS is not complex or popular or graound bracking technology it provides some benefits and advantages. Below we will list some of the benefits and advantages of the RSS usage.
- RSS allows users to track posts and updates about sites easily without navigating to the site.
- Multiple even hundreds of web sites can be tracked easily.
- Desktop, Mobile, Web-based RSS clients can be used to track web site updates from anywhere.
- New torrents can be tracked easily by using RSS client
- New news can be tracked easily by using RSS client
RSS URL or Link
RSS is provided via a special URL or link. This URL contants XML formattet RSS content which contains updates and posts about given site.RSS is also called as feed and generally the /feed or /rss URIs are used to provide RSS content. As an example poftut.com RSS is provided via following URL.
RSS Content
RSS content is formatted in XML format and contains information like title, link, description, language, image, creator, tags, etc. about the post. also, information about the RSS feeds like rss version, content type, etc.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
>
<channel>
<title>POFTUT</title>
<atom:link href="https://www.poftut.com/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
<link>https://www.poftut.com</link>
<description>Linux, Windows, Security, Programming, Network Tutorials</description>
<lastBuildDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2020 07:40:46 +0000</lastBuildDate>
<language>en-US</language>
<sy:updatePeriod>
hourly </sy:updatePeriod>
<sy:updateFrequency>
1 </sy:updateFrequency>
<generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.2</generator>
<image>
<url>https://www.poftut.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/cropped-Selection_017-1-150x150.png</url>
<title>POFTUT</title>
<link>https://www.poftut.com</link>
<width>32</width>
<height>32</height>
</image>
<item>
<title>What Is Elasticsearch?</title>
<link>https://www.poftut.com/what-is-elasticsearch/</link>
<comments>https://www.poftut.com/what-is-elasticsearch/#respond</comments>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[İsmail Baydan]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2020 07:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Big Data]]></category>
<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
<category><![CDATA[Database]]></category>
<category><![CDATA[NoSQL]]></category>
<category><![CDATA[big data]]></category>
<category><![CDATA[elasticsearch]]></category>
<category><![CDATA[lucene]]></category>
<category><![CDATA[mongodb]]></category>
<category><![CDATA[nosql]]></category>
<guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.poftut.com/?p=30099</guid>
<description><![CDATA[<img width="150" height="150" src="https://poftut.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/image-73-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="What Is Elasticsearch?" style="float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;" />Elasticsearch is a search engine that is based on the Apache Lucene project and library. Elasticsearch provides NoSQL features plus ... <p class="read-more-container"><a title="What Is Elasticsearch?" class="read-more button" href="https://www.poftut.com/what-is-elasticsearch/#more-30099">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text">What Is Elasticsearch?</span></a></p>]]></description>
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The left sidebar provides RSS feed categories which are very useful to separate different topics. Also, new feeds can be added easily with the + sign. Another useful feature of Feedly is the RSS feed can be found without providing the exact feed URL by just typing the topic or web site domain.
