Finding Discourse RSS feeds

[Discourse]

A refernece list of all the RSS feeds available in Discourse.

Required user level: All users

Here’s a list of most of the available RSS feeds in Discourse. RSS is a standardised, computer-readable format for content that allows it to be shared between sites and platforms easily.

RSS links that contain an ID (categories, topics, badges, etc.) are defined by their ID. The links won’t break if the slug part of the URL changes, but the slug is still mandatory.

For example, these links all lead to the same RSS feed:

• https://meta.discourse.org/t/events-plugin/69776.rss
• https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-random-slug/69776.rss
• https://meta.discourse.org/t/-/69776.rss

Badges

https://meta.discourse.org/badges/[id]/[badge_name].rss

Categories

https://meta.discourse.org/c/[category_slug]/[id].rss

Groups

Mentions

https://meta.discourse.org/groups/[group_name]/mentions.rss
or
https://meta.discourse.org/g/[group_name]/mentions.rss

Posts

https://meta.discourse.org/groups/[group_name]/posts.rss
or
https://meta.discourse.org/g/[group_name]/posts.rss

Posts

https://meta.discourse.org/posts.rss

Tags

https://meta.discourse.org/tag/[tag_name].rss

Topics

Top topics (by time period, independant of user)

All
https://meta.discourse.org/top/all.rss

Yearly
https://meta.discourse.org/top/yearly.rss

Quarterly
https://meta.discourse.org/top/quarterly.rss

Monthly
https://meta.discourse.org/top/monthly.rss

Daily
https://meta.discourse.org/top/daily.rss

Top topics (for user making the request)

https://meta.discourse.org/top.rss

Latest Topics

https://meta.discourse.org/latest.rss

Single Topic

https://meta.discourse.org/t/[topic_slug]/[id].rss

Users

Posts

https://meta.discourse.org/users/[username]/activity.rss
or
https://meta.discourse.org/u/[username]/activity.rss

Topics

https://meta.discourse.org/users/[username]/activity/topics.rss
or
https://meta.discourse.org/u/[username]/activity/topics.rss

Last edited by @hugh 2024-06-20T11:04:55Z

Last checked by @hugh 2024-06-20T11:05:03Z

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[janbolmeson]

Is there a specific reason it doesn’t work for new?

[hellekin]

What do you mean? “New” would be latest, wouldn’t it?

[janbolmeson]

No, it’s actually a difference.

• Latest = topic with latest reply

New is different:

• New = newest topics disregarding from latest reply

Compare url:s

• /latest - where: “latest.rss” works

vs:

• /new but new.rss does not

[hellekin]

Then I guess this can be considered a bug.

[janbolmeson]

Did you report it or should I?

[hellekin]

Please do, I kinda lost track of this.

[simonmic (Simon Michael)]

Here’s the bug report, and additional interesting discussion: Missing rss feed which corresponds to "new" topics

[setuid]

I came here from a Google search looking for a way to create an RSS feed based on a search of a topic or keyword.

Apparently this isn’t possible, and when tags, slugs and categories doesn’t work, what are my options?

There doesn’t appear to be a way to create an rss feed of a category with a specific tag in it either, for example:

/c/[category_slug]/[tag]/[id].rss

I can’t seem to get a feed of tagged topics or posts inside a category.

I’m creating a boilerplate set of feeds for FreshRSS that will allow faster aggregation of topics for our engineering staff, but this seems to be a big gap.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

[kem5]

I’m subscribed to PrivacyGuides Discourse search feed from openrss.org.

https://openrss.org/discuss.privacyguides.net/search?q=brave+browser+order%3Alatest_topic

Which is an RSS feed for

Search results for 'brave browser order:latest_topic' - Privacy Guides

It has been a while and can’t remember why it works. Open rss may just be supporting Privacy Guides forum specifically. But i’m sure they can quickly support any discourse forum since the code is already there.

Could be helpful until Discourse provides this out of the box.

[setuid]

This won’t work for us, as we have a private Discourse behind SSO, and can’t be exposed outside of our networks.

The site openrss.org takes about 7 minutes to build/render the page you linked above, and it looks like they’ve built the feed for you as a custom feed, nothing built into Discourse itself.

[kem5]

@setuid

The site openrss.org takes about 7 minutes to build/render

Ok. But no web page takes 7 minutes to load. Requests always would time out way before that. Do you mean 7 seconds? It takes page a few seconds to load for me when it generated initially, but seems fast after the first load–at least in my web browser.

[Moin]

Reading

Is it possible to get feeds from advanced searches or tag intersections?

Saved Searches Plugin will give you a topic (with a corresponding RSS feed) for each saved search.

I have the impression it could work using saved searches.

[setuid]

@kem5

Ok. But no web page takes 7 minutes to load. Requests always would time out way before that. Do you mean 7 seconds?

No, it litererally took 7 minutes from the in initial connect/request to openrss.org using your link, before it drew the feed content into the page.

[setuid]

@Moin

I have the impression it could work using saved searches.

This looks like it needs a server-side plugin to be installed to facilitate saved searches and feeds derived from saved searches. That’s a non-starter for us, and sadly, our instance of Discourse does not permit Saved Searches.

[kem5]

@setuid

No, it litererally took 7 minutes from the in initial connect/request to openrss.org using your link, before it drew the feed content into the page.

That doesn’t make much sense. I’m a software engineer and websites can never take 7 minutes to respond. Servers will time out before that happens. The website and the feed I sent loads pretty fast for me.