Use Feeds & RSS

Your Known site provides several types of feeds. A site feed is a machine-readable representation of your site content. You may be familiar with the concept of feeds from blogging. The feed is picked up and used by other web sites and aggregation tools. Software like feed readers and news aggregators often use feeds to automatically notify readers when your site has been updated with new content. Support for each feed listed below is built into Known.

Known and RSS

We’ll touch on RSS feeds first, because this type of feed is applicable to many people. The acronym RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” or “Rich Site Summary”. RSS is basically a structured XML document, and it is the technology that most people use with feed readers. It allows people to keep track of your website and get notified when you publish new content, without having to visit your site all of the time.

Finding your RSS feed URL

Known generates an RSS feed for all the content that you publish and individual feeds for different content types and for hashtags. You may want to give someone your site’s feed or use it for a feed reader or aggregator. There are two possible RSS feeds for all of the content published to your site. Replace “example” with your own site name to find your feeds.

https://example.withknown.com/?_t=rss

https://example.withknown.com/content/all?_t=rss

Content-specific RSS feeds

Each type of content you publish also generates its own specific RSS feed.

Status updates - https://example.withknown.com/content/statusupdates/?_t=rss

Posts - https://example.withknown.com/content/posts/?_t=rss

Photos - https://example.withknown.com/content/photos/?_t=rss

Check-ins - https://example.withknown.com/content/check-ins/?_t=rss

Bookmarks - https://example.withknown.com/content/bookmarkedpages/?_t=rss

Audio - https://example.withknown.com/content/streamingmedia/?_t=rss

Replies RSS feed

If you use your Known site to post replies to other sites, you can also grab an RSS feed of just your replies.

Replies - https://example.withknown.com/content/replies/?_t=rss

Hashtag RSS feeds

If you regularly use hashtags in your content, you may want to grab RSS feeds for some of your hashtags. This will let you only see content published with a specific hashtag. Any hashtag that you use on Known generates its own feed. Replace “hashtag” with your hashtag.

Hashtags - https://example.withknown.com/tag/hashtag?_t=rss

Known and JSON

JSON is another technology built into Known. JSON is short for JavaScript Object Notation. It’s another way to store and present information in an organized, easily-accessible, machine-readable way. The JSON feed for your site might be used by developers who want to build applications that interact with your published content.

Finding your JSON feed URL

Just like RSS, Known generates a JSON feed for all the content that you publish and individual URLs for different content types and for hashtags. Replace “example” with your own site name to find your feeds.

https://example.withknown.com/?_t=json

https://example.withknown.com/content/all?_t=json

Content-specific JSON feeds

Each type of content you publish has its own JSON feed.

Status updates - https://example.withknown.com/content/statusupdates/?_t=json

Posts - https://example.withknown.com/content/posts/?_t=json

Photos - https://example.withknown.com/content/photos/?_t=json

Check-ins - https://example.withknown.com/content/check-ins/?_t=json

Bookmarks - https://example.withknown.com/content/bookmarkedpages/?_t=json

Audio - https://example.withknown.com/content/streamingmedia/?_t=json

Replies JSON feed

If you use your Known site to post replies to other sites, you can also grab a JSON feed of just your replies.

Replies - https://example.withknown.com/content/replies/?_t=json

Hashtag JSON feeds

Any hashtag that you use on Known generates its own JSON feed. Replace “hashtag” with your hashtag.

Hashtags - https://example.withknown.com/tag/hashtag?_t=json

Known and KML

KML is a file format specific to locations and geographic annotations. It’s used to display geographic data on a mapping application. It stands for Keyhole Markup Language. You can use KML data to display your locations and check-ins on a map. Because the KML feed is specific to locations, this feed only works with check-ins that you publish on your Known site.

Finding your KML feed

Known generates a KML feed for the location content that you publish via check-ins. Replace “example” with your own site name to find your feeds.

https://example.withknown.com/content/check-ins/?_t=kml

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This how-to guide was last updated on August 7, 2015.