The random thoughts of a software developer
Creating an Atom Feed on GitHub Pages
Like any good blog I need an feed so that the many people who are addicted to my random ramblings can follow me using their news readers. So, how would I do that?
The atom feed is simply an XML document and the Liquid Templating engine can generate anything that you want so I searched on-line and found some atom samples and used them to generate this Atom feed file:
---
layout: null
---
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<title>Ninja Ferret</title>
<link href="http://ninjaferret.github.com/feed.atom" rel="self"/>
<link href="http://ninjaferret.github.com/"/>
<updated>{{ site.time | date_to_xmlschema }}</updated>
<id>http://ninjaferret.github.com</id>
<author>
<name>Ian Johnson</name>
<email>[email protected]</email>
</author>
{% for post in site.posts %}
<entry>
<title>{{ post.title }}</title>
<link href="http://ninjaferret.github.com{{ post.url }}"/>
<updated>{{ post.date | date_to_xmlschema }}</updated>
<id>http://ninjaferret.github.com{{ post.id }}</id>
<content type="html">{{ post.content | xml_escape }}</content>
</entry>
{% endfor %}
</feed>And there is it, it's a simple file to create that will build an atom feed for your site.