Feed foundations
What Is a Feeds API? A Practical Guide to Feed Architecture
Understand feed formats, stable identifiers, update semantics, and the small design decisions that make integrations dependable.
A FEEDS API LAB COLLECTION
Feed foundations
Formats, identity, and the meaning of a record.
Begin here when your project needs a dependable shared language between publishers and readers. These guides examine the choices that survive beyond a particular library: the format of a feed, the identity of an item, and what a field actually means. Work through the broad architecture guide before choosing a parser. Then use the RSS guide for publication streams or the data design guide for records with explicit units and change semantics. A small sample dataset is enough to make these decisions concrete. Include a duplicate, a correction, and an item without a date in that sample. If your design can explain all three without guessing, you have a useful starting contract. The goal is not to standardize everything immediately; it is to make your first consumer predictable and leave room for the next one.
Your reading list
Feed foundations
RSS Feeds API Guide: Parse, Normalize, and Keep Item Identity
Read RSS carefully: preserve GUIDs, distinguish summaries from full text, handle dates conservatively, and test malformed source content.
Feed foundations
Data Feeds API Design: Schemas, Provenance, and Change Events
Create a feed contract that explains units, missing values, corrections, and deletions before those details become production surprises.