@astrojs/rss 📖

This package brings fast RSS feed generation to blogs and other content sites built with Astro. For more information about RSS feeds in general, see aboutfeeds.com.

Installation and use

See the @astrojs/rss guide in the Astro docs for installation and usage examples.

rss() configuration options

The rss() utility function offers a number of configuration options to generate your feed.

title

Type: string (required)

The <title> attribute of your RSS feed's output xml.

description

Type: string (required)

The <description> attribute of your RSS feed's output xml.

site

Type: string (required)

The base URL to use when generating RSS item links. We recommend using the endpoint context object, which includes the site configured in your project's astro.config.*:

import rss from '@astrojs/rss';

export const GET = (context) =>
  rss({
    site: context.site,
    // ...
  });

items

Type: RSSFeedItem[] (required)

A list of formatted RSS feed items.

An RSSFeedItem is a single item in the list of items in your feed. An example feed item might look like:

const item = {
  title: 'Alpha Centauri: so close you can touch it',
  link: '/blog/alpha-centuari',
  pubDate: new Date('2023-06-04'),
  description:
    'Alpha Centauri is a triple star system, containing Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our sun at only 4.24 light-years away.',
  categories: ['stars', 'space'],
};

title

Type: string (optional)

The title of the item in the feed. Optional only if a description is set. Otherwise, required.

link

Type: string (optional)

The URL of the item on the web.

pubDate

Type: Date (optional)

Indicates when the item was published.

description

Type: string (optional)

A synopsis of your item when you are publishing the full content of the item in the content field. The description may alternatively be the full content of the item in the feed if you are not using the content field (entity-coded HTML is permitted). Optional only if a title is set. Otherwise, required.

content

Type: string (optional)

The full text content of the item suitable for presentation as HTML. If used, you should also provide a short article summary in the description field.

To render Markdown content from a glob result or from a content collection, see the content rendering guide.

categories

Type: string[] (optional)

A list of any tags or categories to categorize your content. They will be output as multiple <category> elements.

author

Type: string (optional)

The email address of the item author. This is useful for indicating the author of a post on multi-author blogs.

commentsUrl

Type: string (optional)

The URL of a web page that contains comments on the item.

source

Type: { title: string, url: string } (optional)

An object that defines the title and url of the original feed for items that have been republished from another source. Both are required properties of source for proper attribution.

const item = {
  title: 'Alpha Centauri: so close you can touch it',
  link: '/blog/alpha-centuari',
  pubDate: new Date('2023-06-04'),
  description:
    'Alpha Centauri is a triple star system, containing Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our sun at only 4.24 light-years away.',
  source: {
    title: 'The Galactic Times',
    url: 'https://galactictimes.space/feed.xml',
  },
};

enclosure

Type: { url: string, type: string, length: number } (optional)

An object to specify properties for an included media source (e.g. a podcast) with three required values: url, length, and type.

const item = {
  /* ... */
  enclosure: {
    url: '/media/alpha-centauri.aac',
    length: 124568,
    type: 'audio/aac',
  },
};

• enclosure.url is the URL where the media can be found. If the media is hosted outside of your own domain you must provide a full URL.
• enclosure.length is the size of the file found at the url in bytes.
• enclosure.type is the MIME type for the media item found at the url.

stylesheet

Type: string (optional)

An absolute path to an XSL stylesheet in your project. If you don’t have an RSS stylesheet in mind, we recommend the Pretty Feed v3 default stylesheet, which you can download from GitHub and save into your project's public/ directory.

customData

Type: string (optional)

A string of valid XML to be injected between your feed's <description> and <item> tags.

This can be used to pass additional data outside of the standard RSS spec, and is commonly used to set a language for your feed:

import rss from '@astrojs/rss';

export const GET = () => rss({
    ...
    customData: '<language>en-us</language>',
  });

xmlns

Type: Record<string, string> (optional)

An object mapping a set of xmlns suffixes to strings values on the opening <rss> tag.

Suffixes expand the available XML tags in your RSS feed, so your content may be read by third-party sources like podcast services or blogging platforms. You'll likely combine xmlns with the customData attribute to insert custom tags for a given platform.

This example applies the itunes suffix to an RSS feed of podcasts, and uses customData to define tags for the author and episode details:

rss({
  // ...
  xmlns: {
    itunes: 'http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd',
  },
  customData: '<itunes:author>MF Doom</itunes:author>',
  items: episodes.map((episode) => ({
    // ...
    customData:
      `<itunes:episodeType>${episode.frontmatter.type}</itunes:episodeType>` +
      `<itunes:duration>${episode.frontmatter.duration}</itunes:duration>` +
      `<itunes:explicit>${episode.frontmatter.explicit || false}</itunes:explicit>`,
  })),
});

trailingSlash

Type: boolean (optional) Default: true

By default, trailing slashes will be added to the URLs of your feed entries. To prevent this behavior, add trailingSlash: false to the rss function.

import rss from '@astrojs/rss';

export const GET = () =>
  rss({
    trailingSlash: false,
  });

The rssSchema validator

When using content collections, you can configure your collection schema to enforce expected RSSFeedItem properties. Import and apply rssSchema to ensure that each collection entry produces a valid RSS feed item:

import { defineCollection } from 'astro:content';
import { rssSchema } from '@astrojs/rss';

const blog = defineCollection({
  schema: rssSchema,
});

export const collections = { blog };

If you have an existing schema, you can merge extra properties using extends():

import { defineCollection } from 'astro:content';
import { rssSchema } from '@astrojs/rss';

const blog = defineCollection({
  schema: rssSchema.extends({ extraProperty: z.string() }),
});

The pagesGlobToRssItems() function

To create an RSS feed from documents in src/pages/, use the pagesGlobToRssItems() helper. This accepts an import.meta.glob result (see Vite documentation) and outputs an array of valid RSSFeedItems.

This function assumes, but does not verify, you are globbing for items inside src/pages/, and all necessary feed properties are present in each document's frontmatter. If you encounter errors, verify each page frontmatter manually.

// src/pages/rss.xml.js
import rss, { pagesGlobToRssItems } from '@astrojs/rss';

export async function GET(context) {
  return rss({
    title: 'Buzz’s Blog',
    description: 'A humble Astronaut’s guide to the stars',
    site: context.site,
    items: await pagesGlobToRssItems(import.meta.glob('./blog/*.{md,mdx}')),
  });
}

The getRssString() function

As rss() returns a Response, you can also use getRssString() to get the RSS string directly and use it in your own response:

// src/pages/rss.xml.js
import { getRssString } from '@astrojs/rss';

export async function GET(context) {
  const rssString = await getRssString({
    title: 'Buzz’s Blog',
    ...
  });

  return new Response(rssString, {
    headers: {
      'Content-Type': 'application/xml',
    },
  });
}

Support

• Get help in the Astro Discord. Post questions in our #support forum, or visit our dedicated #dev channel to discuss current development and more!

• Check our Astro Integration Documentation for more on integrations.

• Submit bug reports and feature requests as GitHub issues.

Contributing

This package is maintained by Astro's Core team. You're welcome to submit an issue or PR! These links will help you get started:

• Contributor Manual
• Code of Conduct
• Community Guide

License

MIT

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