astro/packages/astro-rss

@astrojs/rss 📖

This package brings fast RSS feed generation to blogs and other content sites built with Astro. For more information about RSS feeds in general, see aboutfeeds.com.

Installation

Install the @astrojs/rss package into any Astro project using your preferred package manager:

# npm
npm i @astrojs/rss
# yarn
yarn add @astrojs/rss
# pnpm
pnpm i @astrojs/rss

Example usage

The @astrojs/rss package provides helpers for generating RSS feeds within Astro endpoints. This unlocks both static builds and on-demand generation when using an SSR adapter.

For instance, say you need to generate an RSS feed for all posts under src/content/blog/ using content collections.

Start by adding a site to your project's astro.config for link generation. Then, create an rss.xml.js file under your project's src/pages/ directory, and use getCollection() to generate a feed from all documents in the blog collection:

// src/pages/rss.xml.js
import rss from '@astrojs/rss';
import { getCollection } from 'astro:content';

export async function get(context) {
  const posts = await getCollection('blog');
  return rss({
    title: 'Buzz’s Blog',
    description: 'A humble Astronaut’s guide to the stars',
    // Pull in your project "site" from the endpoint context
    // https://docs.astro.build/en/reference/api-reference/#contextsite
    site: context.site,
    items: posts.map(post => ({
      // Assumes all RSS feed item properties are in post frontmatter
      ...post.data,
      // Generate a `url` from each post `slug`
      // This assumes all blog posts are rendered as `/blog/[slug]` routes
      // https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/content-collections/#generating-pages-from-content-collections
      link: `/blog/${post.slug}/`,
    }))
  });
}

Read Astro's RSS docs for more on using content collections, and instructions for globbing entries in /src/pages/.

rss() configuration options

The rss default export offers a number of configuration options. Here's a quick reference:

export function get(context) {
  return rss({
    // `<title>` field in output xml
    title: 'Buzz’s Blog',
    // `<description>` field in output xml
    description: 'A humble Astronaut’s guide to the stars',
    // provide a base URL for RSS <item> links
    site: context.site,
    // list of `<item>`s in output xml
    items: [...],
    // include draft posts in the feed (default: false)
    drafts: true,
    // (optional) absolute path to XSL stylesheet in your project
    stylesheet: '/rss-styles.xsl',
    // (optional) inject custom xml
    customData: '<language>en-us</language>',
    // (optional) add arbitrary metadata to opening <rss> tag
    xmlns: { h: 'http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/' },
    // (optional) add trailing slashes to URLs (default: true)
    trailingSlash: false
  });
}

title

Type: string (required)

The <title> attribute of your RSS feed's output xml.

description

Type: string (required)

The <description> attribute of your RSS feed's output xml.

site

Type: string (required)

The base URL to use when generating RSS item links. We recommend using the endpoint context object, which includes the site configured in your project's astro.config.*:

import rss from '@astrojs/rss';

export const get = (context) => rss({
    site: context.site,
    ...
  });

items

Type: RSSFeedItem[] (required)

A list of formatted RSS feed items. See Astro's RSS items documentation for usage examples to choose the best option for you.

When providing a formatted RSS item list, see the RSSFeedItem type reference below:

type RSSFeedItem = {
  /** Link to item */
  link: string;
  /** Title of item */
  title: string;
  /** Publication date of item */
  pubDate: Date;
  /** Item description */
  description?: string;
  /** Full content of the item, should be valid HTML */
  content?: string;
  /** Append some other XML-valid data to this item */
  customData?: string;
};

drafts

Type: boolean (optional)

Set drafts: true to include draft posts in the feed output. By default, this option is false and draft posts are not included.

stylesheet

Type: string (optional)

An absolute path to an XSL stylesheet in your project. If you don’t have an RSS stylesheet in mind, we recommend the Pretty Feed v3 default stylesheet, which you can download from GitHub and save into your project's public/ directory.

customData

Type: string (optional)

A string of valid XML to be injected between your feed's <description> and <item> tags. This is commonly used to set a language for your feed:

import rss from '@astrojs/rss';

export const get = () => rss({
    ...
    customData: '<language>en-us</language>',
  });

xmlns

Type: Record<string, string> (optional)

An object mapping a set of xmlns suffixes to strings of metadata on the opening <rss> tag.

For example, this object:

rss({
  ...
  xmlns: { h: 'http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/' },
})

Will inject the following XML:

<rss xmlns:h="http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/"...

content

The content key contains the full content of the post as HTML. This allows you to make your entire post content available to RSS feed readers.

Note: Whenever you're using HTML content in XML, we suggest using a package like sanitize-html in order to make sure that your content is properly sanitized, escaped, and encoded.

See our RSS documentation for examples using content collections and glob imports.

trailingSlash

Type: boolean (optional) Default: true

By default, the library will add trailing slashes to the emitted URLs. To prevent this behavior, add trailingSlash: false to the rss function.

import rss from '@astrojs/rss';

export const get = () => rss({
  trailingSlash: false
});

rssSchema

When using content collections, you can configure your collection schema to enforce expected RSSFeedItem properties. Import and apply rssSchema to ensure that each collection entry produces a valid RSS feed item:

import { defineCollection } from 'astro:content';
import { rssSchema } from '@astrojs/rss';

const blog = defineCollection({
  schema: rssSchema,
});

export const collections = { blog };

If you have an existing schema, you can merge extra properties using extends():

import { defineCollection } from 'astro:content';
import { rssSchema } from '@astrojs/rss';

const blog = defineCollection({
  schema: rssSchema.extends({ extraProperty: z.string() }),
});

pagesGlobToRssItems()

To create an RSS feed from documents in src/pages/, use the pagesGlobToRssItems() helper. This accepts an import.meta.glob result (see Vite documentation) and outputs an array of valid RSSFeedItems.

This function assumes, but does not verify, you are globbing for items inside src/pages/, and all necessary feed properties are present in each document's frontmatter. If you encounter errors, verify each page frontmatter manually.

// src/pages/rss.xml.js
import rss, { pagesGlobToRssItems } from '@astrojs/rss';

export async function get(context) {
  return rss({
    title: 'Buzz’s Blog',
    description: 'A humble Astronaut’s guide to the stars',
    site: context.site,
    items: await pagesGlobToRssItems(
      import.meta.glob('./blog/*.{md,mdx}'),
    ),
  });
}

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