Thanks a bunch! I’ll check it out!
Comment on Help : Self-Hosting RSS Feed for my blog (pls)
gsquirrel@lemmings.world 2 months ago
Creating an RSS feed by hand is no harder than creating HTML pages - it’s just an XML file, basically.
This page has some decent advice to get started with:
KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol 2 months ago
486@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is not quite true. As I mentioned in my other comment already, each feed entry needs its own unique UUID. You have to generate such a UUID for every entry.
exu@feditown.com 2 months ago
Per the RSS specification the
guid
field is optional.And if you do want to provide it, any string works. So just count up from 1, use the title, current date or whatever for that field.
486@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Thanks for pointing this out. I thought this had to be an actual UUID. Generating a unique string of arbitrary format manually is certainly much easier to do manually without additional tools.
akademy@lemm.ee 2 months ago
It’s pretty easy to create a uuid. There are many ways to do it. Which is best for you would depend on how you’re generating your website.