What is the RSS "channel" element?

The RSS "channel" element presents a group of RSS feed items generated by the same producer.

The RSS "channel" element contains the following sub elements.

• title - REQUIRED. The name of your Website, if you are producing this RSS feed. For example: <title>FYI Center for Software Developers</title>.
• link - REQUIRED. The URL to your Website. For example: <link>http://dev.fyicenter.com/</link>.
• description - REQUIRED. A short description of your Website. For example: <description>A large collection of FAQs, tutorials, tips and code examples for application and Web developers</description>.
• language - OPTIONAL. A language code from the ISO 639 standard, specifying the language used in this RSS feed. For example: <language>en</language>.
• copyright - OPTIONAL. Copyright notice for this RSS feed. For example: <copyright>Copyright (c) 2017 FYIcenter.com</copyright>.
• managingEditor - OPTIONAL. Email address of the person responsible for editorial this RSS feed. For example: <managingEditor>jane@fyicenter.com</managingEditor>.
• webMaster - OPTIONAL. Email address of the person responsible for maintaining your Website. For example: <webMaster>john@fyicenter.com</webMaster>.
• pubDate - OPTIONAL. The publication date of this RSS feed in the RFC 822 standard format. For example: <pubDate>Sun, 17 Sep 2017 17:30:51 +0200</pubDate>.
• lastBuildDate - OPTIONAL. The last time this channel description was changed. For example: <lastBuildDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2017 17:30:51 +0200</lastBuildDate>.
• category - OPTIONAL. Specify one or more categories that this RSS feed belongs to. For example: <category>Programming/Web</category>.
• generator - OPTIONAL. A string indicating the program used to generate this RSS feed. For example: <generator>FYIcenter.com Site Builder</generator>.
• docs - OPTIONAL. A URL that points to the documentation for the format used in the RSS file. For example: <docs>http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification</docs>.
• cloud - OPTIONAL. A Web service for clients to be registered for future RSS feeds. For example: <cloud domain="rpc.sys.com" port="80" path="/RPC2" registerProcedure="pingMe" protocol="soap"/>.
• ttl - OPTIONAL. Time To Live in minutes indicating how long a channel can be cached before refreshing from the source. For example: <ttl>1200</ttl>
• image - OPTIONAL. Specifies a GIF, JPEG or PNG image that can be displayed with the channel. See next tutorial for examples.
• rating - OPTIONAL. The PICS (Platform for Internet Content Selection) rating for the channel. For more information on PICS, see PICS Website.
• textInput - OPTIONAL. Specifies a text input box that can be used to send data back to the channel. See next tutorial for examples.
• skipHours - OPTIONAL. A hint telling clients which hours they can skip retrieving updates of this RSS feed. For example: <skipHours><hour>23</hour><hour>0</hour><hour>1</hour></skipHours>
• skipDays - OPTIONAL. A hint telling clients which days they can skip retrieving updates of this RSS feed. For example: <skipDays><day>Saturday</day><day>Sunday</day></skipDays>
• item - OPTIONAL. Specifies news item of this RSS feed. See next tutorial for examples.

⇒ RSS "channel/image" Element

⇐ RSS Document Structure

⇑ RSS specifications

⇑⇑ RSS FAQ and Tutorials