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Feed twin - RSS 2.0

Four articles of a fictional publication as RSS 2.0, with a self-referential atom:link, non-permalink tag: GUIDs, RFC 822 dates and full HTML bodies in content:encoded. One of three twins carrying identical content, so a feed converter can be diffed against a known answer.

Web assets Feed parsing Conversion testing

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
     xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/">
  <channel>
    <title>Example Dispatch</title>
    <link>https://www.example.com/blog/</link>
    <description>A fictional publication shipped in three feed formats with identical content.</description>
    <language>en</language>
    <lastBuildDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate>
    <atom:link href="https://www.example.com/feeds/dispatch.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/>
    <item>
      <title>Sitemap shards, explained</title>
      <link>https://www.example.com/blog/sitemap-shards-explained</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:example.com,2026:dispatch-004</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>Why a 50,000-URL ceiling exists and what a sitemap index actually buys you.</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A sitemap index is a list of lists. Sample article body.</p>]]></content:encoded>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Crawl budget notes</title>
      <link>https://www.example.com/blog/crawl-budget-notes</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:example.com,2026:dispatch-003</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 09:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>Notes on crawl budget for a fictional catalogue of 500 items.</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Crawl budget is a scheduling story, not a quota. Sample article body.</p>]]></content:encoded>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Reading robots.txt like a parser</title>
      <link>https://www.example.com/blog/reading-robots-txt</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:example.com,2026:dispatch-002</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 08:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>Group merging, longest-match precedence, and the fields nobody implements.</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most robots.txt bugs are precedence bugs. Sample article body.</p>]]></content:encoded>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Hello from the Example Dispatch</title>
      <link>https://www.example.com/blog/hello</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:example.com,2026:dispatch-001</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description>The first entry of a fictional publication used as a feed fixture.</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nothing here is real. Sample article body.</p>]]></content:encoded>
    </item>
  </channel>
</rss>

Specifications

Seed: 70400
Site: example.com (fictional)
Format: RSS 2.0
Items: 4
Namespaces: atom, content
Guid Perma Link: false
Date Format: RFC 822

Testing contract

Expected to pass

Scenario: Convert this feed to Atom or JSON Feed and compare with the twins shipped beside it.
Expected result: Four items round-trip with matching ids, links, titles, summaries and bodies; the RFC 822 pubDates map to the same instants as the RFC 3339 timestamps in the twins.

What is a .rss file?

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is an XML-based web feed format that publishes a channel of items with titles, links, descriptions, and publication dates. It lets readers and aggregators track updates to blogs, news, and podcasts. It is a long-established syndication standard.

How to use this file

Use an example RSS file to test feed parsers, item and metadata extraction, and aggregator or podcast-client ingestion logic.

How to use this file for testing

“Feed twin - RSS 2.0” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Web assets, Feed parsing, Conversion testing. Favicons, web app manifests, service workers, robots and sitemap files, Open Graph images, and .well-known resources — for testing web tooling, crawlers, PWA installers, and asset pipelines.

Documented properties for this file: seed 70400 · RSS 2.0. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.

Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such — expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.

Web-platform fixtures are standards-compliant samples against fictional example.com data. Test crawlers, PWA installers and manifest validators, favicon/icon pipelines, service-worker registration, or .well-known parsers against the documented structure.

Code examples

import feedparser  # pip install feedparser

feed = feedparser.parse("dispatch.rss")
print(feed.feed.get("title"))
for e in feed.entries[:5]:
    print(e.title, e.link)

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