

RSS formats are specified using a generic XML file.ĭid you know?: In 2000, at the age of 14, Aaron Swartz co-authored RSS version 1.0, and shortly thereafter joined a working group at the World Wide Web Consortium to help develop common data formats used on the World Wide Web.

An RSS document (called "feed", "web feed", or "channel") includes full or summarized text, and metadata, like publishing date and author's name. 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. 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.

RSS ( Really Simple Syndication) is a web feed that allows users and applications to access updates to websites in a standardized, computer-readable format.
