ATOM News Feeds

Find out What's New

There are several ways to find out what's new in each TWiki web:

1. Visit WebChanges to see recent changes
2. Subscribed in WebNotify get notified of recent changes by e-mail
3. Use a news readers such as TWiki:Plugins/HeadlinesPlugin to display the recent changes
   • The source can be a RSS 1.0 feed (WebRss) or ATOM 1.0 feed (WebAtom)
   • Learn more on RSS at WebRssBase and TWiki:Codev/TWikiSyndication
   • Learn more on ATOM at TWiki:Codev/AtomSyndication

ATOM Feed Usage

• The URL for an RSS feed is https://wiki.astro.ex.ac.uk/bin/view/<web>/WebAtom
• For this TWiki web it is https://wiki.astro.ex.ac.uk/bin/view/TWiki/WebAtom
• You can also create a custom feed based on a search. Add a search=value parameter to the URL, e.g. https://wiki.astro.ex.ac.uk/bin/view/TWiki/WebAtom?search=plugin is a what's new feed about Plugins.

ATOM Feed Internals

Each web has a WebAtom topic which includes part of this WebAtomBase topic. This topic is the base for the ATOM feed and generates an WebAtom 1.0 feed for TWiki:Codev/AtomSyndication.

The WebAtom topic in each web contains the following text:

<title><nop>%WIKITOOLNAME%'s <nop>%INCLUDINGWEB% web</title>
<subtitle>(the description of the web, plain text with no markup and no wikiwords). TWiki is an Enterprise Collaboration Platform.</subtitle>
%INCLUDE{"%TWIKIWEB%.WebAtomBase"}% <!--
   * Set SKIN = rss
-->

Below part is included by each WebAtom topic:

%STARTINCLUDE%<link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="%SCRIPTURL%/view%SCRIPTSUFFIX%/%INCLUDINGWEB%/%HOMETOPIC%"/>
<id>%SCRIPTURL%/view%SCRIPTSUFFIX%/%INCLUDINGWEB%</id>
<rights>%WEBRSSCOPYRIGHT%</rights>%CALC{$SET(c,0)}%
%SEARCH{"%URLPARAM{"search" default=".*" }%" web="%INCLUDINGWEB%" regex="on" nosearch="on" order="modified" reverse="on" nototal="on" limit="16" format="$percntCALC{$IF($GET(c)>0, , <updated>$isodate</updated>$CHAR(10))$SETM(c, +1)}$percnt<entry>$n <title>$topic</title>$n <link rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/html\" href=\"%SCRIPTURL%/view%SCRIPTSUFFIX%/$web/$topic?t=$isodate\"/>$n <id>%SCRIPTURL%/view%SCRIPTSUFFIX%/$web/$topic</id>$n <updated>$isodate</updated>$n <summary>$summary (last changed by <nop>$wikiname)</summary>$n <author>$n  <name><nop>$wikiname</name></author>$n</entry>"}%
%STOPINCLUDE%

See also: WebRssBase, TWiki:Codev/AtomSyndication