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Fun with RSS

The OP API outputs RSS for almost any query. Here are some combinations worth bookmarking.

v0.5

This page has been octothorped with these terms



BACKLINKS

Every OP query endpoint has an RSS variant — just add /rss before the query string. Everything you can filter in JSON, you can filter in a feed. These are live links; click any to open the feed.

The base pattern:

https://octothorp.es/get/[what]/[by]/rss?[params]

Follow a hashtag

The simplest feed: all pages tagged with a term.

get/pages/thorped/rss?o=cats

Fuzzy matching catches variant spellings — #indieweb, IndieWeb, indie-web:

get/pages/thorped/rss?o=indieweb&match=fuzzy


Combine tags

Comma-separate terms to get pages tagged with any of them:

get/pages/thorped/rss?o=indieweb,cats


Any page that octothorpes its outgoing links becomes a subscribable blogroll. This feed updates whenever the source page is re-indexed with new links:

get/pages/linked/rss?s=https://docs.octothorp.es/blogrolls

Use feedtitle to give the feed a readable name in your reader:

get/pages/linked/rss?feedtitle=OP-blogroll&s=https://docs.octothorp.es/blogrolls


Webring member posts

Get a unified feed of everything posted by members of a webring:

get/pages/in-webring/rss?s=https://demo.ideastore.dev/demo-webring

Or narrow it to a specific hashtag used by any member site:

get/pages/in-webring/rss?s=https://demo.ideastore.dev/demo-webring&o=demo


Date filtering

Recent posts only (last two weeks):

get/pages/posted/rss?s=ideastore.dev&when=recent

After a specific date:

get/pages/thorped/rss?o=cats&when=after-2024-01-01

Between two dates:

get/pages/thorped/rss?o=cats&when=between-2024-01-01-and-2024-12-31