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mgnb
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Are there any constantly updating RSS feed services to use for testing, or just very active RSS feeds?

I'm trying to test a service that consumes RSS feeds and turns them into push notifications, and it would be nice if there was a very regularly updated publicly available RSS feed I could point it at.

I know I can just use a news feed like CNN, but I'm wondering if there's something more "Lorem Ipsum" style for RSS.

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Answers (3)

SReza S
SReza S

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Busy subreddits are the best option if you figure out how to get their RSS feed. For example, here is one of them: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/new/.rss

For more information: https://www.reddit.com/wiki/rss

Upvotes: 3

mgnb
mgnb

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I really needed this service, so I set one up at http://lorem-rss.herokuapp.com/

The documentation is at that link, as well as in the GitHub repository below. You can tweak it using GET parameters to update every N seconds, minutes, hours, days, months or years. But I haven't yet tested it comprehensively so I'm not sure if the RSS validates well across different parsers. YMMV.

The code is on GitHub at https://github.com/mbertolacci/lorem-rss

Upvotes: 150

user2417483
user2417483

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If you select a highly active feed (http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss) then the updates should be very frequent.

Be aware that some sites use different RSS versions so you might have to adjust your code as required.

Upvotes: 6

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