A Rough Guide To RSS Aggregators



RSS easily distributes information from different websites to a broad spectrum of internet users. There are special programs that use RSS to source blog and website updates organising the content for easy reading. It allows computers to automatically retrieve and read content users are interested in, whist tracking the changes to further personalize the list.

The specially made programs called RSS aggregators were created to automatically find and retrieve the RSS feeds of websites previously selected by the user by acting in a similar way to a web browser. The difference is that the aggregator is browsing RSS feeds rather than websites. HTML presents information directly to users and RSS automatically lets computers talk with one another.

While users are busy using browsers to surf the internet enabling them to load and view each page of interest, RSS aggregators keep track of website changes and updates.

So How Does It Work

The title or description of an RSS feed are links themselves and can be used to load the page required by the user. RSS starts with an original or source website that has had its content made available by the sites webmaster. The website creates an rss syndication, and then registers it with an RSS publisher that allows other websites to syndicate the documents. The website also creates an RSS feed that is available along with all other resources and documents on the particular web server. The website will then register the feed as an RSS document, with a listed directory of RSS publishers.

Usually an RSS feed is made up of website content that is listed from newest to oldest. Each item consists of a simple title description, along with a summary and a link to the webpage containing the content described.

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