Open Source Platform for Universal Feed Retrieval and Management
Prince Choudhary1, Shiva Venkatesh2 and John Paul C.I3 1,2,3 Information Science & Engineering, The National Institute of Engineering Mysuru Abstract— Now a days people are linked to a lot of websites, they want to access all these websites frequently. They boom in social media like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. has made life of people much easier with the communicating mediums they provide. But the boom has caused people not able to get the required content that one wants the most because they are spread across multiple or a large number of websites around the Globe. To tackle this problem comes RSS. With RSS it is possible to distribute updated web content from one web site to hundreds of other web sites around the world. RSS allows fast and robust browsing for news and their updates on social media. Keywords—social media; communicating; boom; robust; browsing.
I. INTRODUCTION
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. RSS was designed to show filtered data. If there is no RSS, users would have to check every site daily for new updates. This would be very time- consuming for users. With an RSS feed (often called a News feed) they can check your site quickly using an RSS aggregator (it is set of programs which collect and short data). Since RSS collects small data it is fast-loading and it can easily be used with cell phones or PDA's services. These with similar information without effort can share informations on web sites to make them more useful and robust.
II. ALL ABOUT RSS
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication or often called Rich Site Summary. RSS is used by news weblogs, websites and podcasting and among other things. RSS feeds provides contents of web, or summaries what the web constitute, along with links to the full versions of the web content. RSS delivers this data or information as an XML file called an RSS feed, RSS stream, web feed, or RSS channel. In addition to facilitating syndication, RSS feeds allow a website's frequent readers to monitor updates on the site whenever they become available using an aggregator. The aggregator provides a robust look of the content in one browser display or desktop application. Such aggregators (applications) are also termed as RSS readers, feed readers, feed aggregators or news readers.
III. NECESSITIES AND BENEFITS
3.1. RSS is Necessary for: News sites for listing news with title, date and descriptions. Companies for listing news and new products. Calendars for listing upcoming events and important days. Site changes for listing changed pages or new pages.
3.2. The benefits of using RSS are: With RSS user can choose to view the news that he want, the news that interest him and are relevant to his your work. With RSS user can extract wanted information from unwanted information. With RSS user can create his own news channel, and publish it to the Internet.
@IJMTER-2016, All rights Reserved 62 International Journal of Modern Trends in Engineering and Research (IJMTER) Volume 03, Issue 06, [June– 2016] ISSN (Online):2349–9745; ISSN (Print):2393-8161 IV. IMPLEMENTATION
4.1. RSS is Written in XML These are commonly used tags in creation of an RSS file: - It describes the RSS feed. - It defines the title of the channel. <link> - It defines the hyperlink to the channel. <description> - It describes the channel. <category> - It is used to specify a category for your feed. <copyright> - It notifies about copyrighted material. <image> - It allows an image to be displayed when aggregators present a feed. <language> - It is used to specify the language used to write your document. <item> - It defines an article or "story" in the RSS feed. <author> - It is used to put the e-mail address of the author. <enclosure> - It allows a media-file to be included with an item. </p><p>4.2. Following are the steps to get your RSS file up on the web: Give name to the file, must have an .<a href="/tags/XML/" rel="tag">xml</a> extension. Validate your RSS file using some validator application available online. The RSS file must be uploaded to the <a href="/tags/Web_directory/" rel="tag">web directory</a> on your web server. Copy the RSS Logo or XML Logo button to your web directory. Put the buttons of RSS or XML on the page where you will offer RSS to other users around the globe. Then add a link to the button that links to the RSS file. Submit your RSS feed to the RSS Feed Directories. Register your feed with the major search engines like google, bing, yahoo etc. After registering your RSS feed, you must make sure that you update your content often and that your RSS feed is always uninterruptedly available. </p><p>V. CONCLUSION </p><p>RSS has become a necessity because of the trend of focus on content. Due to increasing content it is necessary to have the relevant data as per choice of the user. Hence comes RSS as a savior to the solution for this problem. It is going to be a big thing in future as content volume will keep on increasing and user feed filtering need will keep on increasing. Despite the challenges RSS is the most optimal and appropriate technology which must be tapped to provide better experience to users and increase or expand the reach of your website. </p><p>REFERENCES </p><p>[1] "The <a href="/tags/RSS/" rel="tag">rss</a> and xml application <a href="/tags/Media_type/" rel="tag">Media Type</a>". The Working Group of Network. June 12, 2008. Retrieved 2009-09-26. [2] "Web feeds | RSS | The Guardian | bbc.co.uk", The BBC, London, 2009, webpage: BBCUK-webfeeds. [3] "XML 1.0 Namespaces" . W3C. August 11, 2008. [4] "NMN Directions for Future". <a href="/tags/Netscape/" rel="tag">Netscape</a> Communications. Archived from the original on 2002-11-05. Retrieved 2008-11-21 </p><p>@IJMTER-2016, All rights Reserved 63 </p> </div>
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