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RSS

Standard for sharing website summaries

Entitymarkup language XML-based format web feedQ45432

Also known as Really Simple Syndication

Instance of: markup language
, XML-based format
, web feed
Founded: March 1999
Website: rssboard.org/rss-specification

Overview

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RSS 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 can be built into a browser, installed on a desktop computer, or installed on a mobile device.

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57 statements · 19% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

File extension: xml
rss
Media type: application/rss+xml
3
Sources
1.“MIME Sniffing Standard”mimesniff.spec.whatwg.org/Retrieved 2018-04-22
2.“The application/rss+xml Media Type”tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-rss-media-type-00Retrieved 2018-04-22
3.“The application/rss+xml Media Type”rssboard.org/rss-mime-type-application.txtRetrieved 2020-01-26
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Different from: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
Main Wikidata property: web feed URL

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34 identifiers linking RSS across the web's reference databases

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statements

19%

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