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RSS Connector

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CES 7.0.6942+ (August 2014)

RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content such as blog entries and news headlines. An RSS document called a feed or channel includes full or summarized text together with metadata, like publishing date and author's name.

The RSS connector allows you to bring RSS feed content into your Coveo unified index to make it easily searchable by end-users.

Connector Features Summary

Features Supported Additional information
RSS feeds version RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, and Atom 1.0  
Searchable content types

RSS feeds (or channels) and RSS items
Content update Incremental refresh  
Full refresh  
Rebuild  
Document-level security

Permissions must be manually defined on the source [more]

Features

The features of the RSS connector are:

Content indexing

The connector can retrieve and index exclusively the following RSS types of items:

  • RSS feeds (or channels)

  • RSS items

Supported standards

  • RSS 2.0/1.0

  • Atom 1.0

  • OpenSearch extension

    When the indexed RSS feed supports OpenSearch, on a full refresh or a rebuild the connector automatically can get all items including the old ones that are no longer part of the latest feed document.

Incremental refresh

The connector supports incremental refresh allowing to maintain the source up-to-date by indexing new, changed, or deleted RSS feed items at regular short intervals.

Note: The last modified date attribute must be set for each RSS feed item. Otherwise, the connector sets the default min value and you need to perform a source full refresh or rebuild to update changes on items.

Depending on the RSS feed format, the following property must be defined for each item:

  • Atom 1.0: <updated>

  • RSS 2.0: <a10:updated>

Feature history

CES version Monthly release Features
7.0.8225 March 2016 Connector provides default field set
7.0.6942 August 2014 Connector introduction
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