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I'm trying to test a service that consumes RSS feeds and turns them into push notifications, and it would be nice if there was a very regularly updated publicly available RSS feed I could point it at.
I know I can just use a news feed like CNN, but I'm wondering if there's something more "Lorem Ipsum" style for RSS.
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RSS is a pull technology. The reader re-fetches the RSS feed now and then (for example two times per hour, or more often if the reader learns that it's an often updated feed).
That being said, RSS feeds have largely been replaced by simply joining the email list of the bloggers, brands or publications you want to hear from.
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It refers to files easily read by a computer called XML files that automatically update information. This information is fetched by a user's RSS feed reader that converts the files and the latest updates from websites into an easy to read format.
The lag time between posting a story and seeing it pop up in the RSS feed is usually a few minutes, and then it can take another 10 to 15 minutes or so for it to appear in something like Google Reader. And the TechCrunch feed is probably checked more frequently for updates than most other feeds.
I really needed this service, so I set one up at http://lorem-rss.herokuapp.com/
The documentation is at that link, as well as in the GitHub repository below. You can tweak it using GET parameters to update every N seconds, minutes, hours, days, months or years. But I haven't yet tested it comprehensively so I'm not sure if the RSS validates well across different parsers. YMMV.
The code is on GitHub at https://github.com/mbertolacci/lorem-rss
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