SFEED(5)

✨ SFEED(5) ✨

okay so bestie, this is the sfeed(5) page from the File Formats Manual — it's the one that explains the ✨feed format✨ itself. yes, the actual format. the whole vibe. let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

sfeed — feed format 💅

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

sfeed

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so sfeed(1) writes the feed data in a TAB-separated format to stdout. that's it, that's the whole thing. iconic behaviour honestly. ✨

🎀 TAB-SEPARATED FORMAT FIELDS 🎀

The items are output per line in a TAB-separated format. one item, one line, tabs between the fields. slay.

For the fields title, id and author each whitespace character is replaced by a SPACE character. Control characters are removed. no weird invisible gremlins surviving in your titles, periodt 🧚

The content field can contain newlines and these are escaped. TABs, newlines and '\' are escaped with '\', so it becomes: '\t', '\n' and '\\'. Other whitespace characters except spaces are removed. Control characters are removed. so the content stays on one line, no cap 🫶

The order and content of the fields are:

1. timestamp — UNIX timestamp in UTC+0, empty if missing or on a parse failure.
2. title — Title text, HTML code in titles is ignored and is treated as plain-text.
3. link — Link
4. content — Content, can have plain-text or HTML code depending on the content-type field.
5. content-type — "html" or "plain" if it has content.
6. id — RSS item GUID or Atom id.
7. author — Item, first author.
8. enclosure — Item, first enclosure.
9. category — Item, categories, multiple values are separated by the '|' character.

ngl the order matters fr fr — that's literally the whole format. memorize it or keep this page open forever, your call 💀

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• sfeed(1)
• sfeed_plain(1)

💜 AUTHORS 💜

Hiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org>

and that's the page bestie!! 🎀 this lil ray of sunshine came to you from the Debian crew, dated January 7, 2023 — go forth and parse those feeds, main character energy only 💅✨🦋