RSS News Feeds
Find out What's New
There are several ways to find out what's new in each TWiki web:
- Visit WebChanges to see recent changes
- Subscribed in WebNotify get notified of recent changes by e-mail
- Use a news readers such as TWiki:Plugins/HeadlinesPlugin to display the recent changes
RSS Feed Usage
- The URL for an RSS feed is
/twiki/bin/view/<web>/WebRss
- For this TWiki web it is /twiki/bin/view/TWiki/WebRss
- You can also create a custom feed based on a search. Add a
search=value
parameter to the URL, e.g. /twiki/bin/view/TWiki/WebRss?search=plugin is a what's new feed about Plugins.
RSS Feed Internals
Each web has a
WebRss topic which includes part of this WebRssBase topic. This topic is the base for the RSS feed and generates an RSS 1.0 feed for
TWiki:Codev/TWikiSyndication.
The
WebRss topic in each web contains the following text:
<channel rdf:about="%SCRIPTURL{"view"}%/%INCLUDINGWEB%">
<title>%WIKITOOLNAME%'s <nop>%INCLUDINGWEB% web</title>
<link>%SCRIPTURL{"view"}%/%INCLUDINGWEB%</link>
<description>(the description of the web). TWiki is a Web-Based Collaboration Platform for the Enterprise.</description>
%INCLUDE{"TWiki.WebRssBase"}% <!--
* Set SKIN = rss
-->
Below part is included by each WebRss topic:
%STARTINCLUDE%<image rdf:resource="%WIKILOGOIMG%" />
<dc:language>en-us</dc:language>
<dc:rights>%WEBRSSCOPYRIGHT%</dc:rights>
<dc:publisher>%WIKIWEBMASTERNAME% [%WIKIWEBMASTER%]</dc:publisher>
<dc:creator>The contributing authors of %WIKITOOLNAME%</dc:creator>
<dc:source>%WIKITOOLNAME%</dc:source>
<items>
<rdf:Seq>
%SEARCH{
"%URLPARAM{"search" encode="search" default=".*" }%"
web="%URLPARAM{"web" encode="quote" default="%INCLUDINGWEB%" }%"
excludetopic="%URLPARAM{"excludetopic" encode="quote" default="WebStatistics" }%"
type="%URLPARAM{"type" encode="quote" default="regex" }%"
nosearch="on"
sort="modified"
reverse="on"
nototal="on"
limit="%URLPARAM{"limit" encode="quote" default="16" }%"
scope="%URLPARAM{"scope" encode="quote" default="text" }%"
casesensitive="%URLPARAM{"casesensitive" encode="quote" default="on" }%"
date="%URLPARAM{"date" encode="quote" default="" }%"
format=" <rdf:li rdf:resource=\"%SCRIPTURL{"view"}%/$web/$topic\" />"
}%
</rdf:Seq>
</items>
</channel>
<image rdf:about="%WIKILOGOIMG%">
<title>%WIKILOGOALT%.%INCLUDINGWEB%</title>
<link>%SCRIPTURL{"view"}%/%INCLUDINGWEB%</link>
<url>%WIKILOGOIMG%</url>
</image>
%SEARCH{
"%URLPARAM{"search" encode="quote" default=".*" }%"
web="%URLPARAM{"web" encode="quote" default="%INCLUDINGWEB%" }%"
excludetopic="%URLPARAM{"excludetopic" encode="quote" default="WebStatistics" }%"
type="%URLPARAM{"type" encode="quote" default="regex" }%"
nosearch="on" sort="modified" reverse="on" nototal="on"
limit="%URLPARAM{"limit" encode="quote" default="16" }%"
scope="%URLPARAM{"scope" encode="quote" default="text" }%"
casesensitive="%URLPARAM{"casesensitive" encode="quote" default="on" }%"
date="%URLPARAM{"date" encode="quote" default="" }%"
format="<item rdf:about=\"%SCRIPTURL{"view"}%/$web/$topic\">$n <title>$topic</title>$n <link>%SCRIPTURL{"view"}%/$web/$topic</link>$n <description>$summary (last changed by <nop>$wikiname)</description>$n <dc:date>$isodate</dc:date>$n <dc:contributor>$n <rdf:Description link=\"%SCRIPTURL{"view"}%?topic=$wikiusername\">$n <rdf:value>$username</rdf:value>$n </rdf:Description>$n </dc:contributor>$n</item>"
}%
%STOPINCLUDE%
See also:
WebAtomBase,
TWiki:Codev/RichSiteSummary,
TWiki:Codev/TWikiSyndication