sfeed — feed format

Hiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org> Debian January 7, 2023 SFEED(5)

sfeed(1) writes the feed data in a TAB-separated format to stdout.

sfeed — feed format

sfeed(1), sfeed_plain(1)

The items are output per line in a TAB-separated format. For the fields title, id and author each whitespace character is replaced by a SPACE character. Control characters are removed. The content field can contain newlines and these are escaped. TABs, newlines and '\' are escaped with '\', so it becomes: '\t', '\n' and '\\'. Other whitespace characters except spaces are removed. Control characters are removed. The order and content of the fields are: 1. timestamp UNIX timestamp in UTC+0, empty if missing or on a parse failure. 2. title Title text, HTML code in titles is ignored and is treated as plain-text. 3. link Link 4. content Content, can have plain-text or HTML code depending on the content-type field. 5. content-type "html" or "plain" if it has content. 6. id RSS item GUID or Atom id. 7. author Item, first author. 8. enclosure Item, first enclosure. 9. category Item, categories, multiple values are separated by the '|' character.