FAQ
- What is RSS or an RSS feed?
This question is best answered at Fagan Finder's Explanation of RSS, How You Can Use it, and Finding RSS Feeds.
- Why does Bot A Blog require an RSS feed?
Assuming you've read the above explanation of RSS, RSS is the only way to reliably get information on blog updates. If we downloaded the entire blog html code, we'd have to worry about changes from banners, counters, comments, blogrolls, etc. RSS eliminates all that data and only gives us the important stuff, the blog entries. For that reason, we've decided to only support blogs with RSS feeds.
- What if the blog I want to watch doesn't have an RSS feed?
Your first option should be to e-mail them and ask them to add an RSS feed to their website. If need be, they can create a free RSS feed for their website at myRSS. If they don't want to do that, your second option is to create your own feed for their blog at myRSS :-)
- What is RSS auto-discovery?
Auto-discovery is a simple process of automatically finding the RSS feed for a given blog. This eliminates the need for Bot A Blog users to lookup the RSS feed for every single blog, they can simply just enter the url for the blog. In order for us to find the feed, the blog must add the following tag in their <head> section:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="url/to/rss/file">
For more information, see Mark Pilgrim's implementation instructions.
