The RSS user help page has some good information on how and where to get feeds from theguardian.com, but two significant new features are worth noting.
First, every feed across the site includes the full content for each article. We've also embedded related links pointing people to more information on the web site. This way people can get the theguardian.com experience in whatever context is most useful to them.
We've applied the new full content feeds across the entire web site, but there are some exceptions:
1) We don't always include cartoons, images and some of the other in-article elements that appear with articles on theguardian.com
2) If we have any doubts about our rights to publish the full text of an article in this context, we just show a summary and a link to the main theguardian.com site where you can read the full version.
Second, advertising will soon appear within each full content feed item. Ads won't appear in the items which we display only as summaries.
To find the feeds you want simply look for the Webfeed icon on the page containing the content in question. Or you can simply add /rss to the end of the URL you see in the location bar in the browser. Here are some examples.
"Latest" feeds are available by...
· Subject. For example, mobile phones: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/mobilephones/rss
· Section. For example, film: http://www.theguardian.com/film/rss; and UK News: http://www.theguardian.com/uk/rss
· Blog. For example, the PDA blog: http://www.theguardian.com/media/pda/rss
· Type of content. For example,
· Audio: http://www.theguardian.com/audio/rss
· Gallery: http://www.theguardian.com/inpictures/rss
· Cartoon: http://www.theguardian.com/cartoon/rss
· etc
· Contributor name. For example, Charlie Brooker: http://www.theguardian.com/profile/charliebrooker/rss
· Tone. For example,
· Matchreports: http://www.theguardian.com/tone/matchreports/rss
· Comment: http://www.theguardian.com/tone/comment/rss
· Obituaries: http://www.theguardian.com/tone/obituaries/rss
· Blogposts: http://www.theguardian.com/tone/blog/rss
· etc
· Newspaper publication
· The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/rss
· The Observer: http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/rss
· Newspaper section, such as G2, Sport, Main section, etc. For example,
· G2 of The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/g2/rss
· etc
· Podcasts. For example,
· Media Talk: http://www.theguardian.com/media/series/mediatalk/rss
· Sounds Jewish: http://www.theguardian.com/news/series/soundsjewish/rss
· etc
You can also combine dimensions by using a + sign:
· Music album reviews: http://www.theguardian.com/music/music+tone/albumreview/rss
· Labour party and Climate Change: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour+environment/climatechange/rss
· Marina Hyde's articles about politics: http://www.theguardian.com/profile/marinahyde+politics/politics/rss
Now, we don't expect you to hack the URLs to get to these combination feeds -- but if you are interested there is a little more information here: http://www.theguardian.com/help/insideguardian/2008/apr/11/lateeastereggs
Elsewhere - we also offer feeds of
· Customised jobs searches: http://jobs.theguardian.com/searchjobsrss?keyword=designer
· Jobs by sector, area: http://jobs.theguardian.com/searchjobs/?keyword=designer&industry=101&location=549
We also offer some feeds presented as an "ordered list" of items. For example,
· Top stories, ordered by editorial priority: http://www.theguardian.com/rss
· Most viewed across theguardian.com, ordered by most popular first: http://www.theguardian.com/mostviewed/rss
· ...and by section: http://www.theguardian.com/world/mostviewed/rss
· Most clipped overall: http://www.theguardian.com/mostclipped/rss
· Most clipped by section: http://www.theguardian.com/science/mostclipped/rss
For those of you looking at source code, you will notice we include Dublin core metadata on:
· Contributor (author name)
· Page type (e.g. audio, video, article, image gallery cartoon etc)
· Keywords for the content item, using the RSS 2.0 categories tag
Hopefully, you'll find this more portable access to The Guardian useful. As always, we're wide open to suggestions.
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