# RSS feed for category + latest
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-feed-for-category-latest/37192
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** rss
**Created:** [28 Dezembro , 2015 17:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-feed-for-category-latest/37192 "2015-12-28T17:21:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@mbasnight](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mbasnight)
#### Post date: [28 Dezembro , 2015 17:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-feed-for-category-latest/37192/1 "2015-12-28T17:21:35Z")
Hi,
I have noticed that there is support for a `/latest.rss`, as well as a `/category.rss`, but I cannot find any support for a `/category/latest.rss`. Being in different slack channels, it would be super nice if we could just show the latest feed from a particular category. If this exists, plz enlighten me! Thanks much.
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [28 Dezembro , 2015 19:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-feed-for-category-latest/37192/2 "2015-12-28T19:44:01Z")
Hi mbasnight, welcome to the forum
Do you have an example of where `...category.rss` is _not_ already ordered by latest?
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### Author:  [@mbasnight](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mbasnight)
#### Post date: [28 Dezembro , 2015 20:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-feed-for-category-latest/37192/3 "2015-12-28T20:38:12Z")
Heh,
I inspected the `/latest.rss` and I guess I am looking for something different then what it is showing. What I would like to see is a latest reply to a post, via an RSS feed. We use a github integration in slack to do the same thing. It shows the replies to all of our issues, as well as the post themselves. I guess its less of a “show me the ordered posts and their replies” and more of a “show me all the ordered replies in this category”. Hope that makes sense.
So what I am saying is that you are totally right, `/category.rss`, is ordered, by post. Is the ordered reply thing something that exists today?
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [28 Dezembro , 2015 22:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-feed-for-category-latest/37192/4 "2015-12-28T22:06:23Z")
> [@mbasnight](#):
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> Is the ordered reply thing something that exists today?
Each topic has its own RSS eg.
[RSS feed for category + latest](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-feed-for-category-latest/37192.rss)
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### Author:  [@mbasnight](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mbasnight)
#### Post date: [29 Dezembro , 2015 02:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-feed-for-category-latest/37192/5 "2015-12-29T02:49:13Z")
Yes but that would require me to add every topic manually to the RSS feature in slack. If there were a way to effectively give me this, but for _all_ posts within a category, then I would just have to listen to that single RSS feed to see activity as it happens (posts + replies).
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [29 Dezembro , 2015 03:19 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-feed-for-category-latest/37192/6 "2015-12-29T03:19:33Z")
So in other words, you want to replicate the post stream for all topics in a category?
I fail to see any benefit doing this, even if possible.
Can you explain further?
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### Author:  [@mbasnight](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mbasnight)
#### Post date: [29 Dezembro , 2015 14:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-feed-for-category-latest/37192/7 "2015-12-29T14:46:54Z")
What you are saying is correct. So, the reason we want this is because we watch the stream of all posts (and replies) in a channel in slack so we can see activity. This gives us the ability to respond via clicking a link in slack, rather than checking our email every few hours and then responding. Its more real time since we are a distributed team always on slack. And its hard to see replies from our customers in slack, asking for helpdesk support, because we only see initial posts in `category.rss`, rather than all activity.
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### Author:  [@Lee\_Porte](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lee_Porte)
#### Post date: [6 Janeiro , 2016 12:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-feed-for-category-latest/37192/8 "2016-01-06T12:37:37Z")
This is a feature I would have a use for too. In my use case it would be to display posts from a few categories that are open to the whole organisation on our staff resource site. Whilst keeping the categories that are of no interest to them hidden from the feed.
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [14 Janeiro , 2016 18:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-feed-for-category-latest/37192/9 "2016-01-14T18:55:35Z")
So what you’re actually asking for is `/c/foo/posts.rss` .
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### Author:  [@mbasnight](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mbasnight)
#### Post date: [29 Fevereiro , 2016 20:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-feed-for-category-latest/37192/10 "2016-02-29T20:44:01Z")
What is the difference between `posts.rss` and `latest.rss` ? I would like to see just the newest discussion, not the entire post re-posted every time. For instance, if someone posts a reply to a multiple month old post (like this one), I would like to see just this message, not the post itself come up on the rss feed.
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### Author:  [@ikupczynski](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ikupczynski)
#### Post date: [1 Março , 2016 08:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-feed-for-category-latest/37192/11 "2016-03-01T08:48:43Z")
Agree with @mbasnight and @Lee_Porte. I think this feature would be super useful to have. We are all on slack and we want to help the community on discourse. Seeing the conversation in near-realtime would totally help here.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [1 Março , 2016 11:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-feed-for-category-latest/37192/12 "2016-03-01T11:00:51Z")
It looks like you are using the word “post” when you mean “topic”. I can’t really understand what you wrote? I’m confused.
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### Author:  [@mbasnight](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mbasnight)
#### Post date: [1 Março , 2016 21:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-feed-for-category-latest/37192/13 "2016-03-01T21:12:37Z")
apologies for having bad vocab WRT this. I totally meant to say topic this entire time.
Let me give an example of what I would like to see. Two topics in a madeup `foo` category exist. if I only had one category I could use `/latest.rss` to see the ordered responses/replies to these two topics. But since I have many categories, I cannot use `/latest.rss` to see just what is in my category. The feature that I would like to see is effectively a `/c/foo/latest.rss`, so I can get the chronological order of what is going on with all topics in a single given category.
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [1 Março , 2016 21:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-feed-for-category-latest/37192/14 "2016-03-01T21:26:43Z")
You missed my previous post?
Currently `{category name}.rss`
returns the first posts of “latest” topics i.e. the topics in order of activity.
To get the recent posts of a topic you need to go to
`{topic id}.rss`
EDIT
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### Author:  [@mbasnight](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mbasnight)
#### Post date: [1 Março , 2016 21:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-feed-for-category-latest/37192/15 "2016-03-01T21:33:52Z")
I could not find links that worked.
[https://meta.discourse.org/c/feature/latest.rss](https://meta.discourse.org/c/feature/latest.rss) is what you mean by ` {category name}/latest.rss` correct?
(by the way that link does not work…)
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [1 Março , 2016 21:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-feed-for-category-latest/37192/16 "2016-03-01T21:40:23Z")
Thanks. I’m getting ready to go to the primary polls to vote and not giving my posts adequate focus.
\* error now edited
I’m wondering how you envision this working.
That is, how many posts in how many topics would you include?
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### Author:  [@mbasnight](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mbasnight)
#### Post date: [1 Março , 2016 22:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-feed-for-category-latest/37192/17 "2016-03-01T22:00:05Z")
I hope you have yourself a _super_ tuesday, har har har.
I do not know exactly how to answer your question. But I can offer suggestion via example. If you look at how google groups does RSS, it is a “newest reply” based feed. I am sure my example will change by the time others look at this, so I just suggest that you check out the correlation between the topics in [1], which is displayed exactly like this topic is displayed, oldest post first and a thread to the newest, versus [2], which is the exact opposite. It shows the newest replies to a post on top, so you are always getting the `newest` items in the feed as you subscribe to it.
As for exact numbers, maybe thats best done via configuration in the URL like [2].
[1] [Redirecting to Google Groups](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gnu.emacs.help)
[2] [https://groups.google.com/forum/feed/gnu.emacs.help/msgs/rss\_v2\_0.xml?num=10](https://groups.google.com/forum/feed/gnu.emacs.help/msgs/rss_v2_0.xml?num=10)
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### Author:  [@poweruser82](https://meta.discourse.org/u/poweruser82)
#### Post date: [7 Abril , 2019 17:42 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-feed-for-category-latest/37192/18 "2019-04-07T17:42:05Z")
> [@riking](#):
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> So what you’re actually asking for is `/c/foo/posts.rss` .
This is exactly what I’m looking for, but it simply doesn’t work. It just returns 404.
Has the feature been implemented yet?
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [7 Abril , 2019 18:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-feed-for-category-latest/37192/19 "2019-04-07T18:06:09Z")
The format is actually:
`siteurl/c/categoryname.rss`
So for example in this category:
`https://meta.discourse.org/c/feature.rss`
If you check the source for any category you will see the three RSS feeds linked there, for posts, latest and category-specific posts.
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### Author:  [@poweruser82](https://meta.discourse.org/u/poweruser82)
#### Post date: [7 Abril , 2019 18:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-feed-for-category-latest/37192/20 "2019-04-07T18:22:14Z")
That URL returns the feed of topics of a specific category. I’m looking for the feed of **posts** of a specific category (including subcategories).
[Próxima página](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-feed-for-category-latest/37192.md?page=2)