Feed Patterns

A collection of patterns of ATOM or RSS Feeds I have found.

• Feed Patterns
• Flickr RSS feed pattern: https://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=IDNUMBERS@CHARS where IDNUMBERS@CHARS is the USER ID. White House code is 202101414@N05. RSS. Find it in the source for profile photos.
• Tumblr RSS feed pattern: add /rss to the the tumblr subdomain. For artlung.tumblr.com that is https://artlung.tumblr.com/rss
• Mastodon RSS feed pattern: add .rss to the end of the Mastodon handle. For thisbot.day/@affirmations that is https://thisbot.day/@affirmations.rss
• Substack RSS feed pattern: add /feed to the end of the Substack handle. For heathercoxrichardson.substack.com that is https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/feed
• YouTube RSS feed patterns are based on the channel ID. For example, for www.youtube.com/channel/UCcYgwQEo9G_pbwJbwd_8p7A the RSS feed is https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCcYgwQEo9G_pbwJbwd_8p7A Additionally, that channel_id follows conventions about what's in it. UC indicates a regular channel. By replacing channel_id=UC with playlist_id=UULF the feed would return only videos. Or playlist_id=UUSH would return only shorts. See this StackOverflow. Thanks benji!
• Patreon does not have RSS for all feeds, but does have audio RSS feeds , which constitutes a podcast feed. I am not aware of a standard pattern for this, they generally require authentication.
• Bluesky RSS feed pattern depends on the DID value. Adding /rss to any profile URL, such as for https://bsky.app/profile/artlung.com or https://bsky.app/profile/kenwhite.bsky.social, use https://bsky.app/profile/artlung.com/rss and https://bsky.app/profile/kenwhite.bsky.social/rss. These redirect to https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wgs7q4u4cifplpfpefir6nay/rss and https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:s6j27rxb3ic2rxw73ixgqv2p/rss.
• Pixelfed Atom feed pattern: for pixelfed.social/pixelfed the feed is https://pixelfed.social/users/pixelfed.atom ~ add /users/USERNAME.atom to the domain.
• Reddit RSS feed pattern: for www.reddit.com/r/indieweb/ the feed is https://www.reddit.com/r/indieweb.rss ~ add .rss to the end of the subreddit or user URL. For my own underused reddit account: https://www.reddit.com/user/artlung the feed is https://www.reddit.com/user/artlung.rss
• Not all Squarespace websites have RSS Feeds. And not all kinds of content on Squarespace can generate feeds of posts. Finding your RSS feed URL documents the structure. https://sitename.squarespace.com/pageslug?format=rss is the pattern where pageslug is a blog, or press release list, etc.
• LiveJournal has feeds for users and communities, either of which have subdomain-based base URLs. For example, for artlung.livejournal.com the RSS 2.0 feed pattern is to add /rss: https://artlung.livejournal.com/rss
• Soundcloud has a feed pattern, but items are only added to the feed if the user adds them intentionally. The feed pattern is https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:%%%%%%%%%/sounds.rss where %%%%%%%%% is the user ID number, which is a numeric value. To get that number, I have used document.querySelector('meta[property="al:ios:url"]').getAttribute('content').split(':')[2] and window.__sc_hydration.filter((e) => { return e.hydratable === 'user'})[0].data.id in web developer tools. Users can find their own RSS settings at https://soundcloud.com/settings/content. See also Set Up Your Podcast's RSS Feed
• Codeberg and GitHub provide an Atom feed of public user activity with the pattern of adding a suffix .atom to the url for a user, for example https://codeberg.org/artlung.atom and https://github.com/artlung.atom.