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- File format.name
- RSS
- File format.icon
- 128px|Feed Computer icon.
- File format.caption
- The feed icon used in several browsers
- File format.extension
- .rss, .xml
- File format.mime
- application/rss+xml (registration not finished)
- File format._nomimecode
- yes
- File format.owner
- RSS Advisory Board
- File format.genre
- Web syndication
- File format.released
- RSS 0.90 (Netscape),
- File format.latest_release_version
- RSS 2.0 (version 2.0.11)
- File format.container for
- Updates of a website and its related metadata (web feed)
- File format.extended from
- XML
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16 sectionsContents
- History
- Example
- Aggregators
- Variants
- Modules
- Interoperability
- RSS to email
- RSS compared with Atom
- Current usage
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
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RSS (RDF Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication) 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 (or "RSS readers") can be built into a browser, installed on a desktop computer, or installed on a mobile device.
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. An RSS document (called "feed", "web feed", or "channel") includes full or summarized text and metadata like publishing date and author's name. RSS formats are specified using a generic XML file.