SourceForge.net site feeds and options
SourceForge.net provides a variety of RSS feeds, itemized below:
Site RSS Feed: Site-wide File Releases
Description: A feed of all file releases made by SourceForge.net-hosted projects.
- Related site URL (i.e. source of content): http://sourceforge.net/new/
- Feed options:
No options are provided for this feed.
Feed usage: This feed is particularly useful for those people interested in hearing about all of the exciting project work occurring on SourceForge.net; and for those people who are keeping an eye out for projects they might be interested in joining, or interesting software to try.
Site RSS Feed: Site Status Page Updates
Description: A feed of the most recent updates to the SourceForge.net Site Status page (i.e. the most recent updates in the Recent Updates section of that page).
- Related site URL (i.e. source of content): https://sourceforge.net/sitestatus.
- Feed options:
No options are provided for this feed.
Feed usage: SourceForge.net staff suggest that all frequent end-users of the SourceForge.net site, as well as developers and administrators of SourceForge.net-hosted projects, regularly review updates on the Site Status page. The SourceForge.net Site Status page is used as the primary means for notification of upcoming upgrades, outages and site feature enhancements.
Site RSS Feed: Newly-Registered Projects
Description: A feed of the names, descriptions and license information for all projects recently approved for hosting on SourceForge.net.
- Related site URL (i.e. source of content): No equivalent on site.
- Feed options:
No options are provided for this feed.
Feed usage: This feed is particularly useful for those people who are keeping an eye out for projects they might be interested in joining. Joining your efforts with other, similar projects is also an excellent way to ensure high quality Open Source software applications are written and released.
Content notes: This feed contains the project name and UNIX name (title); license details, project administrator's username and public description (description).
Project RSS Feed: Project News
Description: This feed provides a listing of the most recent news items posted by the project using the project news facility.
- Related site URL (i.e. source of content): News shown on Project Summary page for project, News archive page for project
- URL to feed: Project-specific URL
- Feed options:
&rss_limit=LIMIT - Limit (or increase the limit of) the number items shown in the feed (default 10, max 100) where LIMIT is a positive integer &rss_fulltext=1 - Display full text of news item, not just the first paragraph or two
Feed usage: This feed is useful for users and developers on a project, to keep in touch with recent project news announcements. Many projects announce openings in their development team, new releases, critical software upgrades, and project events using the project news facility.
Content notes: Additional information regarding the news facility of SourceForge.net may be found in our document for project administrators titled, "Using Project News, with step-by-step instructions".
Project RSS Feed: Project File Releases
Description: A feed of the most recent file releases made by a project, including details of the files included in the release.
- Related site URL (i.e. source of content): File Release page for project
- URL to feed: Project-specific URL
- Feed options:
&rss_limit=LIMIT - Limit (or increase the limit of) the number items shown in the feed (default 10, max 100) where LIMIT is a positive integer
Feed usage: Rather than monitoring a file release package and receiving updates via email, you may instead use this RSS feed to keep apprised of when file releases are made by a project.
Content notes: This feed includes basic file release information (title); as well as the username of the developer who handled the file release, a listing of files within the release, and links to downloadable files and release notes (description). Additional information about the File Release System may be found in our, "Guide to the File Release System".
Data format of RSS feeds
SourceForge.net-provided RSS feeds have been designed to be compliant with RSS 2.0 specification. These feeds have been validated using the excellent RSS Validator provided by Mark Pilgrim and Sam Ruby, and the RSS Validator from UserLand.
SourceForge.net, as any functional web site, changes its service offering and feature set as new implementations occur. The set of RSS feeds offered by SourceForge.net may be amended at any time (new feeds added, or existing feeds removed (if relevant features are removed from the site)) and the data within those feeds may also change. These RSS feeds are designed to be useful for humans; not to be machine readable. While you are welcome to use the RSS feeds to extract project data for YOUR OWN SourceForge.net-hosted projects, please take appropriate steps to ensure your scripts will properly cope with data changes or changes in availability of the feeds.
