feed VS JSONFeed

For the RSS feed, we'll be using the Feed package to handle the data formatting. You can install it with:

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

First, I installed the feed package.

To create our RSS feed, we will use the NPM package Feed, which make it easy to generate syndicated feed using Typescript.

This module is based on feed package. You can check it out for modifying the feed object passed to the create method.

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.