KB's RSS Generator

KB's RSS feed generator

To make podcasts RSS feeds, use this version.

Fields marked with * are required, and ones marked with + are not technically required, but I'd strongly recomend adding them.

I need to define my RSS channel too

If you are starting from scratch, you will need to make your RSS channel. Maybe you want to copy and edit an existing feed for reference. You only need to do this once, and when it's done you'll only need to make your items.

As defined in the specification, a channel must have the title, link and description elements:

Channel data Title of the website Link to the website Description Image Language Link to the .xml file where your feed will be available (goes through 3rd party proxy) Categories or tags (comma separated) Managing Editor email (not recommended) Web Master email (not recommended) Hours where channel won't be updated in GMT (not recommended) Days where channel won't be updated (not recommended) Time to live (ttl): how many minutes the channel can be cached before refreshing from the source (not recommended)

As defined in the specification, <item> elements should be inside the <channel> tag, after all its other elements, and their order is not important. However, I recommend ordering items by date, keeping newer ones near the top, just to be consistent. There's no real limit to the number of items that can be present in a feed, so don't limit yourself if not needed, but I've read that if your feed updates frequently or has many items, keeping the 20-100 most recent ones is a good range to shoot for.

As defined in the specification, all elements of an item are optional, but it must contain either a title or description. I recommend including all of these (except stated otherwise):

Item/Article data Title Link to the article Description or headline Content (HTML or plain text) Enclosure/attached file: File URL (goes through 3rd party proxy)

Or if you get an error, also use:

Local file (doesn't get uploaded anywhere)

Or drop file here

Author's email (not recommended) Categories or tags (comma separated)

Result

If you don't want to use the current date, please change the <pubDate> tag with a RFC 2822 date. You can use timestampgenerator.

This generator fully complies with the RSS board's specs.

TODO/Future enhancements (in order of importance):

Support channel's image tag
Support skipDays and skipHours tags
Support ttl tag (caching indicator)
Added comprehensive list of ISO 639-1 language codes for ease
Support enclosure tag (attached file in item tag)
Added button to download results as a file
Added button to copy an existing feed's contents to fields, and thus the result
Fix change event on enclosure file to update properly
Added functionallity to drag an feed file (.xml) to the result box to be copied to fields, and thus the result. A text selection can also be dragged and parsed
Add HTTP HEAD requesting to images to verify requirements and possibly show a preview
Support comments tag
Wont do: Detect relative URL's on Content field and notify the user (The Regular Expressions are so complicated it doesn't make sense, the user can validate using the RSS Board Validator, which implements them, and most readers should be able to resolve relative paths based on the feed channel properties anyways)

Privacy notice: This demo runs entirely within your browser. In other words, no data is sent to me, the code is sent to your browser and runs locally. You could theoretically load the page, cut your network connection and then start it.