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.
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Feed design
Connected ideas across feed formats, practical engineering, and thoughtful AI workflows.
Explore item identity, format choices, schema boundaries, and delivery contracts. Read these guides together when planning the first version of a feed integration. Start with a small source sample and decide which fields your consumer needs to preserve exactly. Then test revisions, missing values, and repeated delivery against that contract. A good first design is one that explains its own behavior without requiring readers to inspect the implementation. The articles below approach the same boundary from architecture, data, RSS, and server-delivery perspectives.
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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.
Data & delivery
Server Feeds API: Conditional Requests, Retries, and Freshness
Build a polite polling strategy around conditional HTTP requests, source-level backoff, durable checkpoints, and honest freshness signals.
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.