JSONFeed VS CreateAPI

If you have a web feed, be it RSS or Atom or JSON Feed, help others discover it!

Imagine you have an RSS feed similar to this. The objective is to obtain that RSS feed, analyze the data it contains, and take action with it. RSS is an XML format, whereas JSON is arguably easier to work with than XML. While many APIs provide JSON results, RSS is less likely to receive them, despite their existence.

At least for now, Astro clearly falls short in this category. Its built-in ability to provide RSS feeds is rather limited, and it doesn’t yet enable JSON feeds at all.5 In the meantime, some users, including Yours Truly, have gotten around this by using the third-party feed package, which supports RSS and JSON feeds.6

want to also support JSON Feed?

-------- # Metadata comes from _data/metadata.json permalink: "{{ metadata.jsonfeed.path | url }}" eleventyExcludeFromCollections: true -------- { "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1", "title": "{{ metadata.title }}", "home_page_url": "{{ metadata.url }}", "feed_url": "{{ metadata.jsonfeed.url }}", "description": "{{ metadata.description }}", "author": { "name": "{{ metadata.author.name }}", "url": "{{ metadata.author.url }}" }, "items": [ {%- for post in collections.posts | reverse %} {%- set absolutePostUrl %}{{ post.url | url | absoluteUrl(metadata.url) }}{% endset -%} { "id": "{{ absolutePostUrl }}", "url": "{{ absolutePostUrl }}", "title": "{{ post.data.title }}", "tags": [ {%- for tag in helpers.removeCollectionTags(post.data.tags) -%} "{{tag}}" {%- if not loop.last %}, {%- endif %} {%- endfor %}], "summary": "{{ post.data.description }}", "content_html": {% if post.templateContent %}{{ post.templateContent | dump | safe }}{% else %}""{% endif %}, "date_published": "{{ post.date | rssDate }}" } {%- if not loop.last -%} , {%- endif -%} {%- endfor %} ] }

Your wish is my command.

The app I'm working on uses OpenAPI, and I've been loving using CreateAPI to generate my netcode. I just compiled the library locally for the first time, and submitted a PR to bump the version of one of the dependencies. Fun stuff!