RSS

Also known as RDF Site Summary, Really Simple Syndication, Really simple syndication, .rss, Rich Site Summary, jj

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File format.name: RSS
File format.icon: 128px|Feed Computer icon.
File format.caption: The feed icon used in several browsers
File format.extension: .rss, .xml
File format.mime: application/rss+xml (registration not finished)
File format._nomimecode: yes
File format.owner: RSS Advisory Board
File format.genre: Web syndication
File format.released: RSS 0.90 (Netscape),
File format.latest_release_version: RSS 2.0 (version 2.0.11)
File format.container for: Updates of a website and its related metadata (web feed)
File format.extended from: XML
File format.open: Yes

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Stack Exchange tag: stackoverflow.com/tags/rss
file extension: rss
described at URL: www.rssboard.org/rss-0-9-1-netscape
Commons category: RSS
media type: application/rss+xml
Commons gallery: RSS icons
XML namespace URL: purl.org/rss/1.0
inception: 1999-03-00
P13411: Patrick Ricard

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History
Example
Aggregators
Variants
Modules
Interoperability
RSS to email
RSS compared with Atom
Current usage
See also
Notes
References
External links
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RSS (RDF Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication) is a web feed that allows users and applications to access updates to websites in a standardized, computer-readable format. Subscribing to RSS feeds can allow a user to keep track of many different websites in a single news aggregator, which constantly monitors sites for new content, removing the need for the user to manually check them. News aggregators (or "RSS readers") can be built into a browser, installed on a desktop computer, or installed on a mobile device.

Websites usually use RSS feeds to publish frequently updated information, such as blog entries, news headlines, episodes of audio and video series, or for distributing podcasts. An RSS document (called "feed", "web feed", or "channel") includes full or summarized text and metadata like publishing date and author's name. RSS formats are specified using a generic XML file.