RSS

RSS Best Practices Profile

The RSS Best Practices Profile is the RSS Advisory Board's normative guidance on producing RSS feeds that interoperate cleanly across the diverse population of feed readers. It covers character data, date formats, email addresses, URLs, element-by-element recommendations, and common namespace extensions including how to use guid, pubDate, and enclosure to avoid known interoperability problems.

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

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Vocabulary
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rss/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/rss-vocabulary.yml

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: rss:rss-best-practices-profile
name: RSS Best Practices Profile
description: The RSS Best Practices Profile is the RSS Advisory Board's normative guidance on producing
  RSS feeds that interoperate cleanly across the diverse population of feed readers. It covers character
  data, date formats, email addresses, URLs, element-by-element recommendations, and common namespace
  extensions including how to use guid, pubDate, and enclosure to avoid known interoperability problems.
humanURL: https://www.rssboard.org/rss-profile
tags:
- RSS
- Best Practices
- Profile
- Interoperability
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.rssboard.org/rss-profile
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/rss-vocabulary.yml